Dear Editor,
In "UNESCO votes to admit Palestine; U.S. pulls funding" (11/1/11), Colum Lynch writes about "a surge of cross-border violence" between Palestinian Gazans and Israel - as if there was some sort of equivalence in the attacks. The fact is that Gazans fired rockets at Israeli civilians while Israel responded by attacking the shooters of the rockets. There was no equivalence.
But Lynch doesn't stop at this. He implies, again incorrectly, that Israel initiated the cross-border violence, saying that the Gaza Militants fired rockets into Israel "after" an Israeli drone attack left two Palestinians dead. He fails to mention that the two Palestinians were engaged in the act of launching rockets at Israel when Israel attacked them.
In short, the author draws equivalence when there is none and omits pertinent information that would allow readers to have a proper understanding of the events. This is deliberate slanting of the news. After reading this kind of "reporting" in The Washington Post day in and day out, there seems to be no other conclusion than that the Post has it in for Israel. Why is that?
