Something to keep in mind when discussing new and improved Middle East "peace plans"

...Reporters will continue to tell their news-consuming audiences that Hamas, PIJ and the other terrorist gangs of Gaza are fighting for their national pride and to shake off an oppressor who stands between them and their longed-for, yet-to-be-created homeland. But they are conveying an ideology-driven nonsense.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
06 November '13..




The premise on which we write this blog is expressed in the paragraph at the top of this page, the one starting with the words

"Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media often report them inadequately. Our daughter Malki..."

Terrorism turned our lives upside down. Every day, and the experiences it brings, serves to remind us that most people don't understand terrorism. They don't understand who the terrorists are or why the terrorists do what they do. This means they also don't understand how wide and deep the danger posed by terrorism is, and how it threatens people everywhere.

The jihadists of terrorism-infested Gaza are a classic illustration of how, in the modern perception (meaning the widespread viewpoints nurtured by a politically-correct reporting profession possessing no Arabic-language skills and with little cultural sensitivity to the region from which they report), terrorists are depicted as passionate about a specific political issue. What makes the jihadists crazy? What brings them to the point where they will lovingly lay down their lives in pursuit of a noble goal? Why, that would be the evil Zionists, of course.

Right? Of course not right. The reality is more complex, more nuanced, less obvious and hugely under-reported.

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