Half the story

Israel generally suffers from the same biased reporting that the US gets in Iraq. When there's a successful suicide attack there may be a sympathetic story, but generally the media is hostile to Israel and focuses on the plight of the Palestinians. This takes the form of complaining about the security fence and slanted coverage of incursions on terrorist bases.

This graph, from Joshua Harvey, gives a clearer picture of what is going on than you could get from listening to the CBC for a year. Israel, a democracy with the same values of pluralism and decency that Canada supposedly holds, is under siege. It's only when they decided to fight back that the successful attacks have abated. But note that the attempts at destruction have not...

From Sagacs's World I Know.