re: #71 lawhawk

Watching CBS news, and they’ve got “Crisis in the MidEast” banners with a Palestinian flag that fades into an Israeli flag.

Memo to CBS. Violence and crisis in the MidEast is not distilled to purely Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

There’s a civil war in Syria. Violence ripping Iraq apart. Failed states in Libya, Yemen and Somalia. A failing state in Egypt. Don’t use graphics that are clearly misleading and wrong.

Those are all crises. And none have anything to do with Israel. In fact, several of those ongoing events have a higher death toll than the current Gaza conflict. By a factor of 100. 170,000 dead in Syria. ~1,700 dead in Gaza. But because Israel, the media attention is where it’s at.

The other conflicts are Arabs killing Arabs, and that’s just not interesting news. But Arabs in conflict with our “ally”? That’s big news!