essay 3 bais media

Mona kamal
If you looked at this picture of this little girl, could you say who she was or how she died? No, of course you would not be able to know who she was or how she died because the Israeli army does not want you to know so American news agencies did not release it to the media. She was Iman al-Hams, a 13 year-old Palestinian girl from the Gaza Strip, Palestine. She died walking to school. She was walking when an Israeli Defense Force soldier, known only as "Captain R", fired 20 rounds into her body (including five into her head) from an M-16 automatic assault rifle - an American weapon supplied by the American government to the Israeli military whom use it to kill Palestinians. There was no reason for shooting her other than she was walking down a street that was next to the bored fence of Gaza and Egypt (Molly Moore). Most Americans today will wake up watching CNN or Fox news and that’s their only source for what going on around the world and never think to question it. There are always two sides to a story and most of the time the news only shows one. American news limits what it releases to the public. They only show what they want Americans to see or know. The fact is, the media is very bias and that’s why people get the wrong impression of what the truth is. An example of extremely bias media and very limited to what people see is the media converge of the Palestine/Israel war.
The Israel military including weapons, tanks, warplanes, and artillery shells are all funded by the US tax payer. More then fifteen million US dollars is given by us taxpayers to Israel each day for their military use, the total founding is more than four billion US dollars per year. (Belphegor69) the American people were against the WW2 and the Holocaust shows us that the Nazis closed businesses, dehumanised, stole land, displaced communities, created ghettos, targeted civilian areas and murdered innocent men, women and children. The state of Israel now does this. Why for America it was not okay for Hitler to do those awful crimes but now America supports those same crimes that Israel is doing to Palestine (aljeezra.com)
Many people in America believe Palestinians are the terrorist and Israelis are the victims. The media always make it seem that in Middle East, it is always the Palestinians that attack first, and it's always Israel who defends itself. Palestine is not allowed to kill Israelis, this is called "terrorism" Israel has the right to kill Palestinians civilians; this is called "self-defense" very time an Israeli dies it’s on the it is mentioned in the New York times. (Philo, Greg) In 2004 an American organization that exposes and examines the facts of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict reported that 808 Palestinian conflict deaths occurred while 107 Israelis conflict deaths occurred. The study, however, found that The New York Times covered Israeli deaths in the headline or the first paragraph in 159 articles meaning in some cases they covered the same death numerous times. In contrast, The New York Times only covered about 40 percent of Palestinian deaths 334 of 80 in the headline or in the first paragraph of the articles. The New York Times is not only bias is also lying and the discovery was made by American organization (If Americans Knew) this study revealed that nearly eight Palestinians died for every one Israeli. Kanazi, Remi
Alison Weir is a journalist for If Americans Knew she went to Palestine and seen things that never been reported in the media like communities destroyed, children who had been shot in the stomach, in the back, in the head and so on .all these events have never been mentioned in the media and a suicide bombing had occurred and she went to a hotel in East Jerusalem and saw that the New York Times had published a front-page story about it. . (Weir, Alison)
In the media the pain Israeli people endure is shown endlessly. Israelis do suffer. Suicide bombings are horrific. Nevertheless, Palestinian pain occurs far more frequently, and yet often overlooked by the mainstream American media. When Israel kill palatines they always say their were planning suicide booming or they looked like terrorist but there are no Palestinian quote, no witnesses giving an alternative perspective. Kanazi, Remi. The media has portrayed suicide bombing as a terrorist attack this is not true, it is a fighting method the Palestinians don’t have tanks and missals to fight with the, best thing they got are rocks or homemade bomb they attach to themselves and they blow themselves up. Palestinians have no weapons let’s even say they had guns how is a person with a gun supposed to fairly fight against an army with apache helicopters and tanks? (Yaghi, Laila). Its also not random people that blow them selves up it people who have seen their daughters and sons head blown off or their entire family killed in one day they become depressed and want to be with their family because there nothing in this life for them left. A 80yera women in Gaza blew up herself because the Israeli army killed her four son who were on their rough after nine o’clock locking up the pigeons and the Israeli army shout and killed her four sons in one night. The old women told a friend “she was she was overwhelmed with grief after loosing four of her sons in one day and wanted to be with her sons and avenges their deaths”. (Sayadi magazine).
Media is also portraying that Palestinian kid are being trained to be terrorist another lye American news is claming. People that live in Palestine have so much pride for their land and kids at a young age grow up loving their land and since there always around violence their whole life young ones grow up knowing that they have to fight for their land. . Palestinians would much rather die as martyrs then murdered by Israelis. Young Palestinian has been around so much violence and tragedy they are egger to fight for their land and help their country in anyway. Whether is showing their pride by raisin the flag in front an army of thanks to or fight a strong and powerful army with rocks. This something no Americans can understand unless they see what young Palestinians see all the time, but the Americans will never see it because their source for the middle east is the New York times. (Levin, Kenneth.)
Many stories are going unreported and many lives are forgotten these cold and ruthless crimes need to stop. Right now there is no reason for Israel to stop because nobody has put pressure for Israeli army to stop murdering innocent civilians. Anytime the Israeli army is questioned for what they do they claim the person was a terrorist or looked like one. The 13 year old girl who was shout 20 time by Captian “R” said be behaved like a terrorist and said on the radio after he killed Iman “Whoever dares to move in the area, even if it's a 3-year- old -- you have to kill them”.(Moore, Molly).
So all this young kids were shot and killed because they looked like terrorist according to Israel. Israel had to defend themselves from her, so they did this to her








This child was not yet born when it was shot by an anonymous soldier for zionism.a baby that never got the chance to breath was killed because it was a terrorist



The New York Times published an article saying Palestine needs to recognize Israelis right to exist. Its articles like that the get the Americans to believe it is Palestine that keeps causing mass destruction and Israel fallows the rules; but nothing on the new York time ever stated that Palestinians being asked to "recognize" Israel has stubbornly refused to declare its own borders. So, territorially speaking, "Israel" is an open-ended concept. Are the Palestinians to recognize the Israel that ends at the lines proposed by the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan? Or the one that extends to the 1949 Armistice Line Or does Israel include the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which it has occupied in violation of international law for 40 years and which maps in its school textbooks show as part of "Israel"? For all Israel has done to Palestine why should the Palestinians recognize an Israel that refuses to accept international law, submit to U.N. resolutions or readmit the Palestinians wrongfully expelled from their homes in 1948 and barred from returning ever since. (Makdisi, Saree)
I believe if there was better media Israel would have reason to back off because their unimaginable crimes would be seen all over America because the Israeli kill and attack so often. People need do know what is really going between the Palestine/Israel war. The media are crucial. It presents a version of reality and it creates awareness of what's happening. Both Palestinians and Israelis understand how important the media is to win the “war of words”. A quotes from Efraim Inbar"Wars are won, not only on the battlefield, but also with words." (search.com) If Palestine had better media converge Americans would get upset with what the American government is supporting and Israel would slow down and their killing and less Palestinians would be fighting back because Israel has slowed down on their killing spree.
The American media claims to be “fair and Just” (fox) when it not even close to “being fair and just”. That why only one side of the Palestine / Israel war is being shown. While Palestinian suffering goes on unreported children like Iman al Hams, Ragheb Al-Masri( murdered while sitting in a taxi Israel sniper shot him) and many more remain dead and forgotten, and the American press remains biased and forgiven(Belphegor69). That’s why I had to the internet and databases to get my information on the truth. If the media is more accurate the government might change course and Israel would back off because when they look at a five year old who may be walking around after 9 o’clock they will think twice before pulling the tiger because they will know their ruthless crimes will be reported the next day.
Is both sides eventually stopped fighting they may learn to live next to each other in peace because heartless crime have stopped. Innocent men women and children would not be murdered. Communities would not be smashed to the ground and leave civilians homeless on the streets. Both sides need to be shown people should stand up against bias media, that is the only way thing are going to change.







































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