The bogus manufacture of heroes and legends

...The list of atrocities we assembled above is incomplete. But they are enough to make the point: it's baffling how media professionals can absorb these dry and hideous facts (assuming they have made the effort) and reconcile them with the naked process now underway in Palestinian Arab circles of placing these very low men on high pedestals.

Heroism of a more truthful era 

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
30 October '13..

26 Palestinian Arab convicts were freed by Israel last night, and are now on Day One of their conversion into giants of the Palestinian Arab blood-lust. That's not what most parts of the mainstream global media are calling them, but it's the truth.

Over at Aljazeera.com this morning, in a report headlined "Jubilant crowds welcome Palestinian prisoners", they say, typically of the genre:

Jubilant celebrations kicked off on Wednesday morning in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the prisoners are seen as heroes who fought for independence, and were received by their families and Palestinian leaders. "We greet and welcome our brothers, and we confirm that they will return to their homes and nowhere else," Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said in a speech to a roaring crowd in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "Today we talk about the 104 prisoners, and our journey will not be completed until all the rest of the prisoners are released," he said. "There will be no agreement while there is still a prisoner who remains behind bars." [Aljazeera.com]

Associated Press says

The decision to release the 26 has triggered anguish and anger in Israel, where many view the men as terrorists who have committed grisly crimes against Israelis. But jubilant celebrations erupted in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where the prisoners are seen as heroes who fought for independence, and were received by their families and Palestinian leaders.

How rational is it for journalists to tell their readers that the men freed today are viewed as heroes? And that it is only in partisan Israel that they are seen as terrorists? It seems to depend on whether the writers and reporters have actually read the details of what put these so-called pre-Oslo terrorists behind bars.

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