Solomonia Archive: Bowdlerizing the murder of a kid

Friday, June 30, 2006

Harry at Squaring the Boston Globe catches the Globe in a sin of omission: Whitewashing the Facts of Murder

...Of course observe that the Globe report is technically 100% correct. The PRC did threaten to kill Asheri. The Globe just doesn’t report the fact that the PRC cell killed him (details!) or how they did it, or why they did it, or how the killers were rewarded. They do run the picture of Asheri’s shrouded body…but on page 14. The Globe carried an AP story with some of these details on 28 June. So why are the above facts unmentionable or not newsworthy only 2 days later?

This utter whitewash of the facts concerning the kidnapping and murder of a young Jew is enough to make any Jew paranoid. I wonder if B’nai B’irth accepts Catholics as members?

See his post for the details and links.

I'm tired of reading that this kid was a "settler." He was an Israeli. Period. What the hell has being a settler to do with anything? It's somehow less of a sin to murder this kid? (They didn't execute him because of the Gaza situation, they planned to kill him and trade his corpse. Sick.) Because someone didn't like where he was living? Would Israelis be somehow less morally liable if they kidnapped and killed Arabs building illegal housing in Jerusalem?

If you're noticing that you've been hearing more and more about the "Popular Resistance Committees" of late, that's because it's effectively Hamas under a different name. Hamas supports them but let's the "PRC" claim the credit so Hamas can keep up this silly facade of a "truce" up. It's an illusion for export only.

Posted by Solomon at 8:07 PM on Friday, Jun 30, 2006
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