Medierne forvirrer folk
Mange tv-seere tror Israel er besat
En ny undersøgelse fra det skotske Glasgow Universitet om mediernes påvirkning af befolkningen i England i deres syn på forholdene i Mellemøsten viser, at der findes stor forvirring. Især BBC og ITV-stationernes dækning af Mellemøst-stoffet har været i centrum i undersøgelsen.
Blandt andet viser undersøgelsen, at store dele af befolkningen forveksler
palæstinensere med afghanere. Og utroligt nok tror mange, at israelsk
territorium er besat af palæstinenserne – og ikke omvendt.
(læs hele artiklen (engelsk) her:
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http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion3.htm
A recent Glasgow University study of Middle East
coverage by BBC
and ITV in the United Kingdom found that Britons
confuse
Palestinians with Afghans. Incredibly, many
believe that Israeli
territory is occupied by Palestinians and not
vice versa.
How can that be? Hundreds of hours of coverage
are devoted to
the conflict, and yet the British public knows
little,
apparently, of the context or history of this
conflict. Many
reasons are given for such a finding: that
Israeli official
views predominate in the news, that Israeli
actions are
contextualised, but not Palestinian actions,
that Israeli
casualties are given prominence. Journalists shy
away from doing
otherwise because of Jewish pressure and fear of
being labelled
Nazis or anti-Semitic. Additionally, with
America’s so-called war
on terror dominating and framing the news
everywhere day in day
out, all non-state-initiated violence in the
Middle East is now
labelled terror and dismissed.
So here is a little context.
After decades of conflict, with the Palestinians
getting the
worst of it by far, the two sides want peace,
but because each
starts from a different premise, there is no
meeting of the
minds.
The Israeli premise: we have defeated the
Palestinians twice
already, in 1948 when the state of Israel was
established and
populated by Jewish emigrants, displacing hoards
of Palestinians
who were not allowed to return, and in 1967,
when we occupied
the West Bank and Gaza, creating more Palestinian
refugees and
taking all of Jerusalem. On our side is the
reality of power.
Since then, we have consolidated our presence in
this new
territory by building 300 colonies (400,000
Israeli strong) on
high Palestinian ground circling Palestinian
villages and taking
their foraging lands and most of their water
(each colonist gets
1,450 cubic metres of water a year, compared to
the
Palestinian’s 83). We patrol these colonies with
guns, and we
have built special roads and sometimes tunnels
for protection.
Now we are building concrete walls to enclose
not the colonies,
but Palestinian-populated areas near them. We’ll
rope them off
in little enclaves, changing “the facts on the
ground”
irreversibly. Moving the colonists out is
costly. To move the
colonists from Gaza, which has proved too hot to
handle, to the
West Bank, of course, not back to Israel, is
going to cost us
an average of $300,000 in compensation for each
family, not
counting other related costs. Thank God for the
United States.
We have been particularly successful in altering
the status of
Jerusalem, where we have conducted ethnic
cleansing through
expropriation of land and properties,
detentions,
disproportionate taxation and identity-card
denials. We make it
practically impossible for a Palestinian
Jerusalemite to get a
building permit, for example, and we keep
Palestinian
non-Jerusalemites firmly out of Jerusalem. At
the same time, we
facilitate and encourage Jewish colonies, thus
preempting the
final-status negotiations
Now, we are trapping 60,000 Palestinians who live
in the suburbs
of East Jerusalem, in Anata, Hizma, Al Za’im, Al
Ram and Dahiat
Al Barid, between the wall separating them from
the West Bank
and the walls separating them from East and West
Jerusalem.
These people, of course, will not be granted
residency nor will
they be eligible to get Jerusalem identity
cards. They will be
linked to the rest of the West Bank by a narrow
road or tunnel,
which will be under Israeli control. This is part
of our vision
to ensure Jewish dominance over metropolitan East
Jerusalem, but
we call it security.
After Ariel Sharon’s symbolic visit to the Temple
Mount in
September 2000, to demonstrate Israeli control
of all of
Jerusalem, East and West, the Palestinians began
a series of
street demonstrations. We responded with
brutality triggering
what is called the second Intifada or uprising.
We have
devastated the Palestinians economically and
communally through
“closures” and restriction of movement. That
means we herd them
through bottleneck checkpoints and restrict their
movement and
the movement of their goods. The World Bank,
just last week,
declared what’s happening in the West Bank and
Gaza as the worst
recession in modern history. Nearly half of the
Palestinian
population is now living in poverty. In contrast,
we are the
world’s 16th wealthiest country, richer than
Ireland or Spain.
There are a few of them who find all these
achievements
intolerable, and so they blow themselves up in
our midst. Others
attack military targets. In return, we conduct
extrajudicial
executions of Palestinian militia; we regularly
inflict
collective punishment on innocent Palestinian
civilians razing
their agricultural lands and demolishing their
houses. We have
institutionalised discrimination and state
torture not only of
Palestinian adults but also of children, who pose
a danger to
our soldiers and coloniser families. They throw
stones at us!
Since 2000 until June 30, 2004, we have killed
3,043
Palestinians, including 584 child killings (up
to May 31). We
have maimed or injured 26, 606 of them.
And still no peace.
We have a right to Palestinian lands by dint of
superior force
and many facts on the ground, and we are fully
backed by the
United States, a superpower. We even have
nuclear capability.
Why don’t the Palestinians admit defeat? They
should stop
resisting, stop wanting revenge, stop trying to
get their lands
and human dignity back. Why can’t they
understand that they have
lost already?
What else can one do to subjugate a people? Where
did we go
wrong?
vice versa.
How can that be? Hundreds of hours of coverage
are devoted to
the conflict, and yet the British public knows
little,
apparently, of the context or history of this
conflict. Many
reasons are given for such a finding: that
Israeli official
views predominate in the news, that Israeli
actions are
contextualised, but not Palestinian actions,
that Israeli
casualties are given prominence. Journalists shy
away from doing
otherwise because of Jewish pressure and fear of
being labelled
Nazis or anti-Semitic. Additionally, with
America’s so-called war
on terror dominating and framing the news
everywhere day in day
out, all non-state-initiated violence in the
Middle East is now
labelled terror and dismissed.
So here is a little context.
After decades of conflict, with the Palestinians
getting the
worst of it by far, the two sides want peace,
but because each
starts from a different premise, there is no
meeting of the
minds.
The Israeli premise: we have defeated the
Palestinians twice
already, in 1948 when the state of Israel was
established and
populated by Jewish emigrants, displacing hoards
of Palestinians
who were not allowed to return, and in 1967,
when we occupied
the West Bank and Gaza, creating more Palestinian
refugees and
taking all of Jerusalem. On our side is the
reality of power.
Since then, we have consolidated our presence in
this new
territory by building 300 colonies (400,000
Israeli strong) on
high Palestinian ground circling Palestinian
villages and taking
their foraging lands and most of their water
(each colonist gets
1,450 cubic metres of water a year, compared to
the
Palestinian’s 83). We patrol these colonies with
guns, and we
have built special roads and sometimes tunnels
for protection.
Now we are building concrete walls to enclose
not the colonies,
but Palestinian-populated areas near them. We’ll
rope them off
in little enclaves, changing “the facts on the
ground”
irreversibly. Moving the colonists out is
costly. To move the
colonists from Gaza, which has proved too hot to
handle, to the
West Bank, of course, not back to Israel, is
going to cost us
an average of $300,000 in compensation for each
family, not
counting other related costs. Thank God for the
United States.
We have been particularly successful in altering
the status of
Jerusalem, where we have conducted ethnic
cleansing through
expropriation of land and properties,
detentions,
disproportionate taxation and identity-card
denials. We make it
practically impossible for a Palestinian
Jerusalemite to get a
building permit, for example, and we keep
Palestinian
non-Jerusalemites firmly out of Jerusalem. At
the same time, we
facilitate and encourage Jewish colonies, thus
preempting the
final-status negotiations
Now, we are trapping 60,000 Palestinians who live
in the suburbs
of East Jerusalem, in Anata, Hizma, Al Za’im, Al
Ram and Dahiat
Al Barid, between the wall separating them from
the West Bank
and the walls separating them from East and West
Jerusalem.
These people, of course, will not be granted
residency nor will
they be eligible to get Jerusalem identity
cards. They will be
linked to the rest of the West Bank by a narrow
road or tunnel,
which will be under Israeli control. This is part
of our vision
to ensure Jewish dominance over metropolitan East
Jerusalem, but
we call it security.
After Ariel Sharon’s symbolic visit to the Temple
Mount in
September 2000, to demonstrate Israeli control
of all of
Jerusalem, East and West, the Palestinians began
a series of
street demonstrations. We responded with
brutality triggering
what is called the second Intifada or uprising.
We have
devastated the Palestinians economically and
communally through
“closures” and restriction of movement. That
means we herd them
through bottleneck checkpoints and restrict their
movement and
the movement of their goods. The World Bank,
just last week,
declared what’s happening in the West Bank and
Gaza as the worst
recession in modern history. Nearly half of the
Palestinian
population is now living in poverty. In contrast,
we are the
world’s 16th wealthiest country, richer than
Ireland or Spain.
There are a few of them who find all these
achievements
intolerable, and so they blow themselves up in
our midst. Others
attack military targets. In return, we conduct
extrajudicial
executions of Palestinian militia; we regularly
inflict
collective punishment on innocent Palestinian
civilians razing
their agricultural lands and demolishing their
houses. We have
institutionalised discrimination and state
torture not only of
Palestinian adults but also of children, who pose
a danger to
our soldiers and coloniser families. They throw
stones at us!
Since 2000 until June 30, 2004, we have killed
3,043
Palestinians, including 584 child killings (up
to May 31). We
have maimed or injured 26, 606 of them.
And still no peace.
We have a right to Palestinian lands by dint of
superior force
and many facts on the ground, and we are fully
backed by the
United States, a superpower. We even have
nuclear capability.
Why don’t the Palestinians admit defeat? They
should stop
resisting, stop wanting revenge, stop trying to
get their lands
and human dignity back. Why can’t they
understand that they have
lost already?
What else can one do to subjugate a people? Where
did we go
wrong?