Re: I don't know if it's true, but...

replyPlease, don't use the filk list to fight this particular political battle?! Things are upset enough as it is.

Thanks, Kitt Bradley

• Original Message ----- From: "Filksinger" <filksinger at earthling.net> To: <filk at dragoncat.net> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: RE: I don't know if it's true, but...

> From: Gary Ehrlich
>
> > Michelle Hansard wrote:
> > >
> > > Reposted from a list elsewhere:
> > > ----
> > > >From http://www.jerusalem-times.net/news/n1.htm
> >
> > This is an English version of a Palestinian newspaper. I would take any
> > articles of this nature as total fabrications, unless the accounts can
> > be corroborated by a reliable, unbiased source.
>
> Of course. Palestinian news articles are unreliable and should be treated
as
> "total fabrications", but we accept _Israeli_ reports without comment.
>
> Now, I'm not saying the Jerusalem Times isn't biased. Nor am I saying we
> should accept this account on the surface. But just because it is a
> Palestinian paper is no reason to just reject it as "total fabrication".
>
> Ever compare Palestinian reports with Israeli reports of this area? Try
it,
> preferably with news articles from before the 11th. It is an interesting
> lesson in bias in reporting, and the Israeli bias is every bit as bad as
the
> Palestinian.
>
> The real eye-opener is when you compare US news sources with both. Our
news
> says, "Israeli civilians clash with Palestinian nationals, two dead."
> Israeli sources say, "Israeli homesteaders on the West Bank and
Palestinian
> civilians fought today, two Palestinians killed by gunfire." Palestinian
> sources say (and, if you look hard enough, so do some Israeli sources),
> "Israeli terrorists fire on unarmed Palestinian civilians, two
Palestinians
> dead."
>
> Filksinger
>
>
>
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Received on 09/17/01