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chris hedges is so discredited. it was proved that he wasn't even at a great many of the things he says he was. http://www.camera.org/docs/alert/hedges.html http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/Dishonest_Reporting_Award_2001.asp http://shamash.org/listarchives/pjml/011109 WEBMASTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ANNOUNCEMENTS and ARTICLES: http://pnews.org/art/art.shtml |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, G. Waleed Kavalec wrote: > > Murdering Children for Sport > > "Ali Murad Abu Shaweesh was 12 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the back. > Ali was killed on the same day in June, 2001 that Sharon refused to let the > Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, meet with Yasir Arafat, yet his > death also went unnoticed by American television news. But not entirely > unnoticed, since the Israeli soldiers, who taunted the Palestinian boys over > loudspeakers outside the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, goading > them to come out and throw rocks, did so under the gaze of Chris Hedges, a > reporter for the New York Times. > > "Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads > gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were > lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their > sights...in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice > children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote. His > account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not > for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on > his vacation." > > The Nation, March 11, 2002 > Ibrahim Abu Awad, a dirty and disheveled boy of ten, pesters me for a shekel, and finally stands and stares intently at the post. I ask him what he wants to do in life. "Kill Jews," he says. --- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================= http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (NewsWiki) - http://pnews.org/ (Home) http://pnews.org/vortal/ (Portal) Myth Busters/Mid-East http://g0lem.net/vortal/ (Portal) Insane Planet/Progressive http://g0lem.net/portal/ (Portal) Bad-Ass Truth/Economics http://pnews.org/portal/ (Portal) Naked Truth/Propaganda http://pnews.org/signup.shtml - (pnews-l) info // sub/unsub -(oldest progressive internet list - since 1982)- ============================================================= \_/ \_/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! --- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================= http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (NewsWiki) - http://pnews.org/ (Home) http://pnews.org/vortal/ (Portal) Myth Busters/Mid-East http://g0lem.net/vortal/ (Portal) Insane Planet/Progressive http://g0lem.net/portal/ (Portal) Bad-Ass Truth/Economics http://pnews.org/portal/ (Portal) Naked Truth/Propaganda http://pnews.org/signup.shtml - (pnews-l) info // sub/unsub -(oldest progressive internet list - since 1982)- ============================================================= \_/ \_/
