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Who Gets to Define "Terrorism"

The people with the better funded media machine, ofc.

In American media discourse, when Palestinians overwhelmingly kill soldiers (95% of the Israeli death toll) who are part of an army that is blockading, occupying, invading, and indiscriminately bombing them and killing their children by the hundreds, that is "terrorism"; when Israelis use massive, brutal force against a trapped civilian population, overwhelmingly killing innocent men, women and children (at least 75% of the Palestinian death toll), with clear intentions to kill civilians (see point 3), that is noble "self-defense." That demonstrates how skewed U.S. discourse is in favor of Israel, as well as the purely manipulative, propagandistic nature of the term "terrorists."

I think the pie charts in the article speak volumes. While both sides have blood on their hands, it's important to note how easily the Palestinians are demonized in the media.

For a media that's obsessed with "balance", they seem to have no trouble unequally representing the sides in this conflict.

The U.S. media needs to do a better job of conveying the complexity of this situation. It can't just be a black and white/good guy vs bad guy story. It's all shades of gray where nobody has claims to innocence.

By min | August 3, 2014, 10:17 AM | Liberal Outrage