Media Bias for Israel Masks Israeli Aggression against Palestinians!

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• Published on Jul 9, 2014
  I show Abby Martin talking with Max Blumenthal about Israel’s latest violence and give my take and several details about what the corporate media is doing to distort the reality of Israeli Aggression against Palestinians.
  On US TV, Israel is ‘Striking Back’
  http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/07/02/o…
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  When Israel attacked Palestinian targets following the discovery that three kidnapped Israeli teenagers had been murdered, the way TV outlets characterized the Israel actions on their July 1 newscasts was instructive.
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  ABC World News and NBC Nightly News adopted the same language: “STRIKING BACK”
  Framing Israel’s actions as a form of retaliation is problematic, since the airstrikes, arrests and house raids are directed at people who had nothing to do with the murders. Israel has named two suspects in the crime, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha. As the New York Times (7/1/14) and other outlets have reported, these two West Bank residents may not have a significant connection with Hamas, despite the official Israeli insistence that the Hamas government in Gaza should be held responsible for the killings.
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  “Three weeks ago this Ramallah bubble—however sturdy it was to begin with—burst. The deaths of the two Palestinian youths killed a few weeks ago outside Ofer prison during a Nakba Day demonstration have proved harder for Ramallah than any other West Bank killing over the past few years. When Nadim Nuwara, 17, and Mohammed Salame, 16, were shot by Israeli forces with live-fire, it sent Ramallah into a gloom. Sometimes killings are a spark for a sea-change, or political stumbling blocks. Yet this time the city and everyone in it that witnessed the deaths wept as if they were biting into a sour fate. These killings were emotional setbacks.”
  http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/comes-d…
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  “There were many threats against my family. They told me that I was up against a very powerful force, and I am very small. One of them said, “We will squish you like a bug, you are nothing.” … one of the soldiers told me that they will unleash dogs on my children.”
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  http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/09/is… 
  http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/19/is… 
  http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/israeli… 
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  In the preface to the book, Blumenthal wrote that it is “Americans’ tax dollars and political support that are crucial in sustaining the present state of affairs” in Israel and that, in the book, he wanted to show what that money is paying for and to present the facts.”
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  http://representativepress.blogspot.c…