Not Your Average Jewess

Disgusting as always. Whatever shall poor Abu Mazen do?

But, as this survey illustrates, America stands strongly with Israel. Even if, for reason totally unbeknowest to me, the Euros don't.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=50198

i'm just waiting for the international community to blame israel (indirectly or otherwise) for what happened instead of placing the blame where it really belongs. and i can't even imagine the concessions the palestinians are going to get from the u.n. after this. they always walk away with something,

In the wake of the London bombings the BBC abandoned its long-standing editorial policy of not using the term 'terrorist'. They had maintained that the term was prejudicial and they didn't want to take sides... preferring to use words like 'militant', 'insurgent' or even 'freedom fighter'. Except now when the people laying dead in the street are British citizens... well then, now the perpetrators are obviously 'terrorists'!

It is reassuring to see that they BBC has regained its senses and is once again using less prejudicial language to describe the people who planned and carried out the attack in Natanya.

I grieve for the British people who were injured or killed... but the journalists and editorial staff of the BBC deserve to be driven to the heart of Ramallah and dropped off in their underwear. I'd like to see them stammering, "No, we're not Israelis... we are the good guys! Here let me tell you about some of the nice things I've written about you people", as the mob advanced on them with guns and knives.

Sadly, the number of dead victims has now risen to 4 and there are some severly injured. The total number of injured people is always hard to measure. There are also traumatised people who are not necessarily physically injured.

The BBC and CNN definitely didn't pay much attention to the pigua in Netanya because at the time they were continuously discussing the discovery that the London bombers were British citizens who killed themselves. This most likely scenario has shocked the Britons for some reason. Apparently they forgot that British suicide bombers have already attacked Mike's place bar in Tel Aviv.

I haven't seen anything unusual about the media reaction, but it still made me shiver that, when the number of victims was 2, the BBC reported "3 people killed", including the terrorist himself.

If it need to be said, this behaviour of the media and some politicians does not change my empathy for the British people, and their reaction can surely serve as a model for others.

David:
"but the journalists and editorial staff of the BBC deserve to be driven to the heart of Ramallah and dropped off in their underwear. I'd like to see them stammering, "No, we're not Israelis... we are the good guys! Here let me tell you about some of the nice things I've written about you people"

Good point. This doesn't go for the BBC only..

Orly: It is ALWAYS a tragedy when an innocent person is killed. Isn't that so?

Yes of course, but too many times, the dominant voices from Europe are so not empathic for Israel's tragedies, that it is impossible not to feel deep anger, which sometimes leads to lack of empathy for the general population in European countries. Sad but true, and if you ask me, natural, up to a certain extent.