Bob Simon Not Fenced In By Facts
The CBS correspondent emphasizes criticism of Israel's security barrier and ignores public opinion in its favor.
Borders, Security Barrier and Checkpoints
CAMERA Letter-to-the-Editor Published in the Boston Globe
The following CAMERA letter-to-the-editor correcting a letter about Israel's security barrier appeared today in the Boston Globe:
IN HER Dec. 5 letter lambasting Israel's security barrier ("Motives behind Israel's wall"), Ellen Cantarow admonishes: "The Globe owes its readers commentaries that don't make up the facts." Yet Cantarow does just that.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Editorial Ignores Key Facts
“Nightline”: Suicide Bombers As Victims
ABC humanizes the Palestinian side, including suicide bombers, but ignores Israeli victims.
Monitor Muddles Terrorism and Fence Building
A Christian Science Monitor article treats the Israeli victims of a terrorist attack as an afterthought. To the Monitor, the tragedy seems to be -- not that two civilians were killed -- but that the suicide bombers “threatened to undermine the Palestinian Authority’s campaign to stop Israel’s barrier.”
CAMERA Letter on Road Map Published in Boston Globe: Palestinians Must Stop Violence First
“POINTERS for Sharon” (editorial, July 29) points in the wrong direction. To say that if Ariel Sharon takes the “measures” of releasing more prisoners, suspending work on a security fence, taking down more checkpoints, and freezing settlements, then “Palestinian action should be to disarm militant groups” disregards completely the basic imperatives of the peace endeavor the Globe has repeatedly praised.
CAMERA Letter-to-the Editor Printed in Daily Herald
Ray Hanania's July 4 column contained several serious errors...The fence being built between Israel and the West Bank to protect Israelis from terrorists has nothing to do with Gaza and nothing to do with the death of Rachel Corrie.