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On 2011-03-17, at 11:53 AM, Eli Stephens wrote: > A very interesting article on the subject today from FAIR: > http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/03/16/assigning-blame-for-west-bank-killings/ > > Five members of a family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar were killed in > their home on Friday night. Nothing is known about the perpetrators or their > motivation. But much of the media coverage assumes the killers were > Palestinians, and the murders were a political act. > > […] > > A March 15 report reminded Times readers that the "assailants, who are still > at large, are widely suspected to be local Palestinians." You would think - no, you wouldn't, actually - that the Times, following the Jerusalem Post and Palestinian news agencies, would also report that a Thai immigrant worker was rumoured to have been arrested by the Israeli military as a prime suspect. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=212115 Earlier, the Netanyahu government used the killings as a pretext to announce a further expansion of the settlements in the West Bank. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/israel-expand-settlements-family-killing ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
