A commonly heard refrain among pro-Palestinian propagandists is that Israel repeatedly violates international declarations with U.S. financial and moral support and that the attacks of 9/11 and indeed, Muslim terrorism worldwide are a direct result of U.S. support for Israel.
Despite the BBC World Service’s claims to set the standard for accurate and impartial journalism, reports about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are rarely if ever impartial. On November 22, 2002, the day after a bloody suicide bombing in Jerusalem which killed 11 Israeli women and children, BBC World Service’s NewsHour followed up--not with a report on the Israeli children who had just seen classmates blown apart on the way to school--but with an in-depth feature on Palestinian children fearful of the Israeli military response to terrorist actions.
In its August 19, 2002 edition, Time Magazine published a one-sided portrait of Palestinian grievances omitting crucial context. In photographs by James Nachtwey, whose full photo essay is displayed on Time's website
(www.time.com), and an article by Matt Rees reporting from Beit Jala, Time focused exclusively on Palestinian
perspectives of the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
From May 20 through May 24, 2002, The World's Patrick Cox presented a five-part special report entitled "A Middle East History," where he attempted to sum up the complex history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in brief soundbytes, drawing heavily on Arab propaganda claims, omitting relevant information, and skewing the facts.