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CNN International snubs Israeli
civilians
Highly
unbalanced report mostly ignores plight of Israeli
civilians, portrays Israelis as soldiers and
politicians in suits, while coverage from Lebanon features
in-depth interviews with Lebanese civilians
and images of children and ruins; no mention of large number
of Israelis displaced from their homes in north
Yaakov
Lappin
The anatomy of bias: A CNN International in-depth report
from Israel and Lebanon unveiled the full extent of bias at
work behind the global news network's coverage
of the
Israel
Hizbullah war.
Scant attention
is paid to Israeli civilians, while a long report featuring
images and interviews of
Lebanese civilians followed. The report's startling lack
of representation of the suffering experienced by so many
Israeli civilians stood in stark contrast to the interviews
and video footage taken of Lebanese children and scenes of
wreckage shown from across Lebanon.
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The report
began with an account of Haifa by a CNN female
correspondent. During the report, there is a single, brief
image of Israeli civilians, sitting at a cafι in Haifa.
The picture remains on the screen for a number of
seconds, before the journalist is seen being interviewed by
the CNN anchor.
"Well some
Arab Israelis were very upset when rockets struck their
homes and three people died, and all of them were Arab
Israelis, and they were complaining that they have hadn't
been built bunkers like Israeli Jews in this city," said the
journalist, answering a question about relations between
Jews and Arabs in Haifa. She later said the answer depended
on "who you asked."
The report
did not mention any Israeli casualties, and no interviews
with Israeli civilians were conducted.
Other than a
momentary statistic appearing on the screen, there is no
mention of the large number of Israelis who have become
displaced from their homes in the north, and the journey
home which awaits them to homes possible destroyed by
Hizbullah rockets although on the Lebanese side of the
border, the report takes a long look at the return of
Lebanese refugees to their homes in southern Lebanon.
There were no
interviews from Israeli hospitals, and no mention made of
the million Israelis who had been living in bomb shelters
for almost a month. Also glaringly absent were images of
destroyed homes and buildings across northern Israel.
A report then
followed by CNN's Paul Hancocks, focusing exclusively on
Israeli domestic politics. "The military battle for Israel's
prime minister is over for the time being. The political
battle has just begun. Critics claimed Olmert has gone to
war hastily and ill prepared," said Hancocks, before film of
Olmert's Knesset speech was shown. The report showed
internal Knesset wrangling and the ejection of two Knesset
members.
By the time
CNN's correspondents had completed their coverage from
Israel, it became clear that CNN had little interest in
placing individual faces and names to the suffering on the
Israeli side, let alone mentioning the extent and scope of
the war damage.
Second half very
different
The second
half of the report, by CNN's Ben Wiederman, was dramatically
different.
The report
was saturated with images of Lebanese children playing in
ruins, blood stains, destroyed buildings, and personal
accounts of Lebanese families attempting to head back to
south Lebanon.
It was
introduced by CNN's anchor, who said: "Nasrallah also
acknowledged the deaths and the destruction of the Lebanese
homes, but he said Hizbullah would be ready to help
rebuild."
"It was a
morning like so many other recent mornings in Tyre. And then
there was silence. The ceasefire went into effect at 8 AM
local time. And with the prospect of calm, it didn't take
long for many of Lebanon's refugees, estimated at more than
a million, to pack their belongings, and head south towards
home," Wiederman said.
"Beirut's
Sinara park has become a temporary refuge. But Monday
morning some decided it was to go back. To what, they
weren't sure," he added.
Beginning one
of a number of interviews with Lebanese civilians, the
report continued: "'We're returning to our village but we're
not sure if we'll be able to get there,' said this man from
a village outside Tyre."
Suggesting
that Israel would target Lebanese civilians heading back to
Lebanon, Wiederman said: "Last week Israel warned that it
would target any car south of the Litani river. The warning
remains in effect. But few seem to heed it. Rather they
chose to savor the thought that Hizbullah has emerged from
this war in their opinion victorious."
"The 33 day
conflict has left the Lebanese economy in ruins. Thousands
of homes have been destroyed by Israeli land air and sea
bombardment, and over a thousand Lebanese, mostly civilians,
have been killed during the fighting," Wiederman continued,
as images of Lebanese children and wrecked debris flashed
across the screen.
Wiederman's
report was then followed by an item on the struggle aid
workers to get into southern Lebanon.
During
earlier coverage on Sunday, CNN chose the word "resistance"
to describe Hizbullah's actions in Lebanon a term used by
Hizbullah - as well as Hamas - to describe their own attacks
- implicitly presuming that armed jihad organizations are
'resisting' and defending against aggression, rather than
initiating it.
A succession
of images followed, showing a Lebanese woman alone among
ruins, followed immediately by a photograph of smiling
Israeli soldiers with guns raised in the air. No context or
explanations of when and where the photos were taken are
provided.
(08.15.06, 00:23) SOURCE:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3291328,00.html
Chris Link wrote on July 30,
2006 12:00am
THIS
is the picture that damns
Hezbollah. It is one of several,
smuggled from behind Lebanon's
battle lines, showing that
Hezbollah is waging war amid
suburbia.
The images, obtained exclusively
by the Sunday Herald Sun, show
Hezbollah using high-density
residential areas as launch pads
for rockets and heavy-calibre
weapons.
Dressed in civilian clothing so
they can quickly disappear, the
militants carrying automatic
assault rifles and ride in on
trucks mounted with cannon.
The photographs, from the
Christian area of Wadi Chahrour
in the east of Beirut, were
taken by a visiting journalist
and smuggled out by a friend.
They emerged as:
US President George Bush called
for an international force to be
sent to Lebanon.
ISRAEL called up another 30,000
reserve troops.
THE UN's humanitarian chief Jan
Egeland called for a three-day
truce to evacuate civilians and
transport food and water into
cut-off areas.
US SECRETARY of State
Condoleezza Rice returned to the
Middle East to push a UN
resolution aimed at ending the
18-day war, and:
A
PALESTINIAN militant group said
it had kidnapped, killed and
burned an Israeli settler in the
West Bank.
The images include one of a
group of men and youths
preparing to fire an
anti-aircraft gun metres from an
apartment block with sheets
hanging out on a balcony to dry.
Others show a militant with AK47
rifle guarding no-go zones after
Israeli blitzes.
Another depicts the remnants of
a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket in
the middle of a residential
block blown up in an Israeli air
attack.
The Melbourne man who smuggled
the shots out of Beirut and did
not wish to be named said he was
less than 400m from the block
when it was obliterated.
"Hezbollah came in to launch
their rockets, then within
minutes the area was blasted by
Israeli jets," he said.
"Until the Hezbollah fighters
arrived, it had not been touched
by the Israelis. Then it was
totally devastated.
"It was carnage. Two innocent
people died in that incident,
but it was so lucky it was not
more."
The release of the images comes
as Hezbollah faces criticism for
allegedly using innocent
civilians as "human shields".
Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as
"cowards" for operating among
civilians.
"When I was in Lebanon, in the
Hezbollah heartland, I said
Hezbollah must stop this
cowardly blending in among women
and children," he said.
