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Culture Vulture: America's most biased?
By Claude Salhani
>From the Life & Mind Desk
Published 4/12/2002 5:52 PM
WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- Moments after a female Palestinian suicide bomber
blew up herself and six others in a crowded Jerusalem market, hours before the start
of the Sabbath, John Walsh, the host of "America's Most Wanted," was interviewed
by Paula Zahn on CNN.
Walsh, whose made-for-television show on the Fox network has certainly been
effective in cracking down on crime and putting more than one wanted felon behind
bars, asked why Palestinians went into Israel killing women and children.
"Israel does not go into Palestinian lands killing innocent women and children,"
Walsh said.
Now it is true that there are no Israeli suicide bombers, but during the last nine or
10
days, war has been raging in the Middle East, claiming about 150 lives in the West
Bank town of Jenin alone, by Israel's count.
Let me cite the following from a Friday front-page story by Washington Post
correspondent Lee Hockstader, reporting from Jenin: "... And there is Khadra
Samara, 33, who said she shepherded more than a dozen children as she fled from
house to house in the adjacent Jenin refugee camp, under repeated assault from
Israeli bulldozers and missiles that, house by house, toppled the walls on top of
them."
As Palestinian activist Hannan Ashrawi told CNN shortly afterward, "There were no
cameras allowed into Jenin to document the killing there."
The killing of innocent people can never be justified, no matter where they come from
-- let us be very clear about that.
"Terror is unacceptable," said former Sen. George Mitchell, the keynote speaker
Friday in Washington at the closing luncheon of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors' annual convention.
Mitchell headed the international commission that created the Mitchell plan for peace
in the Middle East. The plan has been accepted by all parties concerned as the basis
on which peace between Israel and the Palestinians is to be built. And he represents
grown-up policies of the kind that Walsh might have well consulted before he let fly
his unrefined opinions.
"Each death creates a new demand for revenge," said Mitchell, only hours after
another suicide bomber claimed more lives in Jerusalem. Yet, Mitchell believes there
is still hope for a negotiated settlement to the Middle East dispute.
"There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended," Mitchell said. "Conflicts
are created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings,"
said the former U.S. Senate majority leader, but he added, "It will require courage."
Much courage will be needed to "rekindle the desire for peace," as Mitchell so well
pointed out.
The Mitchell plan, as it is called, requires "mutual respect" on both sides. "They can
continue in conflict or find a way for peace," said Mitchell. But, he continued,
"Israel
and Palestinians cannot end the conflict on their own."
In my view, the United States must remain involved. As Mitchell put it: "It's in our
national interest to preserve peace."
It is also in our interest to avoid airing biased views.
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