Is the situation between Israel and Lebanon portrayed accurately by the US media ??

Question

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/1359222

Answer 1

No it is not. I'm sick and tired of hearing statements regarding Islam; that it is a hostile religion that is only out to destroy Isreal and that Isreal is the virtuous aggressor in all this. I agree with the statement made by several who point out the need to read what is coming out of newspapers in Europe and the Middle East. Example: Look what came out in Isreal yesterday and today:

On the Innocent Slaughter of Children

Wednesday, August 02, 2006
The committee of Jewish rabbis in the West Bank settlements issued a Jewish religious edict permitting the IOF troops to kill women and children in Lebanon and Gaza Strip without reservations, according to the Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth website.
The website quoted the rabbis as saying that the edict was based on the Torah teaching, adding "Any Israeli soldier showing mercy towards children in Lebanon and Palestine is implicitly merciless towards Israel's children". The edict was published at the backdrop of the current Israeli intensive war on Lebanon.

Thursday, August 03, 2006
Yesha Rabbinical Council: During time of war, enemy has no innocents. The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy." All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss)

Answer 2

Israel is taking too much of an offensive in this issue. Also, you must consider where Israel's money is coming from. Israel is too small a country to support a war this size on its own. OK. I don't want to sound antisemitic, but Israel gets a lot of support from Jews over seas from places like America and Canada. All I know is that I will not be supporting the Jewish community until this unrealistic offensive is called off. And, even after all this is over, it will take a long time for the Jewish community to get my trust back. If you do a quick survey of the Jewish population, you will find that something like 8/10 people support Israel's new found love affair of fighting the Hamas insurgency.

Answer 3

No! There has been a lot of times when I would like to ask them
if the lives of the people that Hezbollah kill whenever they like are more important than the lives that are killed by Israel trying to remove Hezbollah. Yeah the Lebonese death count may be greater now but I think the people should have done something about Hezbollah in their own country and it IS tragic but I don't think Israel should be expected to set back and allow Hezbollah to start bombing them anytime the choose. I find it hard to believe anything I hear from the media anymore but I do recall hearing that they bombed Israel first. I think the only right thing for Lebanon to do would be for all the Lebonese to band together to oust Hezbollah from their country. You don't hear anything about that now do you? Maybe they are just letting Hezbollah try and do what they would like to do. If they are more afraid of Israel than Hezbollah then why not get them out of their country? It' all just STUPID CRAZY.

Answer 4

the US media, that's strongly stimulated with the aid of political opinion has a tendency to tread intently on concerns the place there are strongly held perspectives. The israel/Palestine conflict is one such situation. it fairly is a known reality that there are extra Jewish human beings in manhattan on my own than exists interior the entire of Israel (and, so a techniques as i comprehend, there are not too many Palestinians!) So, a heavy imbalance does play an element on how the US media covers this situation.

Answer 5

Accuracy is in the eye of the beholder. No matter how neutral the media is supposed to be there is always a slant. The facts may be accurate, but they are put together in such a form that it comes out slanted. It is kind of like making a movie and editing it, if you leave everything unedited something very different is bound to come out. But no matter what, we should always question what we see and hear and learn from a variety of sources, this would include learning from Al-Jazeera and other foreign media along with U.S. media.

Answer 6

Fox News is doing a better job than the rest of the media. Rest of the media is twisting the facts to make Israel seem like an agressor.

Answer 7

FOX has admittedly had an agenda from the start. And no the portrayel is not accurate because there is a VERY powerful person in this country his name is Jesus Christ and from what people gather he's a mesiah and his resurrection is hanging in the balance. Israel is a country that was stolen.

Answer 8

I trust the US media more than I trust anything else, so yep, I believe it! I mean, what's the alternative? The terrorist sympathizing Al-Jazeera? Or the government run news media in the surrounding countries? No, I think they lost all credibility when they gave airtime to the insurgents, and kidnappers who beheaded innocent people. I'll stick with CNN any day, thank you.

Answer 9

I'll be the first to admit that the U.S. media sucks, but I would be pissed if someone kept shooting RPG's into my country. The U.N. she be held accountable as they voted that an unoccuppied :Lebanon would control Hezbollah.

Answer 10

No. The US media reports Bush's propaganda as fact. Very differently from the rest of the world.