Nightline’s Moral Equivalence
Charles Johnson
Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 11:21 am PDT • Views: 190
CAMERA’s Ricki Hollander takes apart yet another morally reprehensible episode of a news show I used to admire, but now simply can’t stand to watch: Nightline’s Moral Equivalence. (Hat tip: Rachel.)
Noam Leibrovitch, the 7-year-old Israeli profiled in the story, was a direct victim of Palestinian terrorism. She was directly targeted and murdered by a Palestinian sniper who fired on her family’s car as it exited the Trans-Israel Highway inside the Green Line.
Amel El Jarusha, the 8-year-old Palestinian profiled, was an indirect victim of Palestinian terrorism. She was accidentally killed in an Israeli military counter-terrorism operation against Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a senior Hamas leader responsible for a terror campaign that has killed almost 250 Israelis and wounded almost 1,500 over the past three years. Rantisi who, according to the Israeli Defence Ministry, personally supervised Hamas killing operations during the past several months, installed himself in a densely populated civilian center, endangering his family and community by living as a wanted man among them. The Hamas leader’s presence in El Jarusha’s neighborhood led to the Israeli military response that killed Amel.
Frank says: