Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Media Coverage of Suicide Bombings - All Effect, No Cause

But when Israel kills Palestinians, western media is quick to give the Israeli government´s or army´s view of the killings and their reasons or excuses for it and then doesn´t question these.

I personally don´t understand what is so especially terrible in suicide bombings that would make them worser or morally more bad than other forms of large-scale killing of people, innocent or not? Does it really make the killing of maybe tens of people more acceptable if the killer is a man (or a woman) in a uniform who launches a missile from a airplane or a helicopter? Surprisingly, many people think that it does. I don´t understand this kind of thought. Certainly what matters is the result. And the reasons for the carnage. Real ones, not the propaganda of a one side of a conflict.