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"open to negotiation to be given to Palestinians"?????????
Aside from the obvious nitpicking, this comment appears to imply that it is morally abhorrent to claim that Palestinians have any right to recognise Jerusalem as their land. I would politely request that such openly racist comments be aired in a forum other than the antinato list.
Lee
At 16:34 27/02/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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"AP'S SNOW JOB"
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Dear Member,
Take a look at the following photo caption from the Associated Press, and see if you can pick out the one word of bias:
"A Jewish man prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in east Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday Feb. 25, 2003. About 7 inches of snow has fallen in a rare snow storm that swept across Israel, closing major highways and schools and cutting power." http://honestreporting.com/a/r/352.asp http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030225/168/3cx2x.html
The word is "east" Jerusalem. The caption could just have easily read without that word: "the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City." By adding the word "east" Jerusalem, AP subtly suggests that the Western Wall is part of disputed territory, open to negotiations to be given to Palestinians.
Such politicizing has no place in a caption about a snowstorm.
The bias is subtle, but there nonetheless. And that makes it all the more insidious.
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