I used to be a news editor and broadcaster. I know a lot of the tricks the media uses to emphasize what they want to and still claim to be honest when reporting the news. The way in which one writes the news can be very subjective, while not seeming so to the public. A listener has to be very savvy to recognize the ways in which a news piece can be used in order to sway their thinking.

A broadcaster's emphasis here or a pause there can change the facts.



Anti-Israel media corporations will broadcast their news with lines such as: "Israeli occupation soldiers shot at a Gazan hospital killing two Palestinians...." Let's examine this one line.


First, the term "occupation soldiers" is subjective and makes the listener already assume that Israel is deserving of any violence that happens, because they shouldn't be there. Second, the news broadcast omitted important and vital facts of the story, such as why the Israeli soldiers were shooting at the Gazan hospital. Perhaps they were forced to do so because the terrorists were shooting from there in the first place? Ah, yes, but those facts are not in the interest of the broadcaster's political agenda.


Then there is the news story saying that Israeli soldiers killed two Arabs "near" a Jewish community. What they omit saying is that the two Arabs were trying to penetrate into the Jewish community on a murder spree, and that weapons and ammunition were found on their bodies.


When reading the news, a broadcaster's emphasis here or a pause there can change the facts in a listener's head.


When I worked in broadcast news, it almost gave me ulcers, especially the day after a terror attack. One would think that the day that an attack happens is the worst, as the body counts get higher and higher throughout the day. But even when the number of dead go higher and higher, it's not as emotionally caustic as the next day, when those numbers become people. The numbers become names. They had lives, they had husbands, wives, children, grandparents. That's when the immensity and pain really sears into one's mind. To hear the relatives screaming, hear the children crying for their mommy that they will never have to kiss and hold them again. To hear the story of their lives at jobs, at home, to hear how they helped others and how they will be missed. And that does not include the injured who will never be the same again. Those were my worst days, and I dreaded coming in to work the next day amidst the funerals and faces with their names under their pictures on the news.


This last week has reminded me of those days, how the media can build a golden dream made of wishful thinking, folly and falsehoods and pass it off as a great event.


The Olmert-Abbas 2007 peace plan, with the planned signing of yet another "peace"

A golden dream made of wishful thinking, folly and falsehoods.

agreement between the PLO and Israel, has been built up to be the new Messiah. They claim we will have a new opportunity for peace, because Yasser Arafat is dead and now we have his successor, Mahmoud Abbas. But really, nothing has changed. Abbas is the man who earned his PhD denying the Holocaust. He has a long history of terror involvement, one aspect of which was finding the funds and helping to plan the mass murder of 11 of our young Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics in Munich Germany. Since Arafat's death it has really only been a change from Terrorist A to Terrorist B.
The PLO has never changed its charter calling for the destruction of Israel and it still has the whole State of Israel on their "map of Palestine." They still teach hatred of Jews and perpetrate acts of terror against us. The promises they make in English are quickly explained away in Arabic to their populations. Their signatures on documents, handshakes and smiles, photo shoots and all the other pomp are just cosmetics. It's like taking a corpse, applying some beige make up base on his face, rouge on his cheeks, red lipstick on his cold lips and then proclaiming, "Look how healthy he looks!"


This "peace plan" is just another dead Oslo. The media, however, is working in tandem with the government's line and is making this into the news event of the year. In its futile quest for peace with the same old same old, it is trying to connive the Israeli public. How the press tries to delude us, so it can delude itself, that this time it really is for real.


Until the Arabs accept the fact that the Land of Israel is for the Jewish people, and accept our presence here, no amount of land will satisfy them. It is only whetting their appetite for more and more until we are no longer.


And one last word about the left-wing and our Prime Minister. There are plans to bring

It stalks the streets of our cities and villages indiscriminately killing our people.

Egyptian soldiers into the south and Jordanian soldiers into the northern Samaria region in Israel. How can it be that our leaders of today voluntarily give up our sovereignty? Wasn't one of the reasons for making the modern State of Israel to never have to rely on others for our safety and protection? How can we willfully bring in foreign troops to guarantee our security? Where is our pride as a nation, our independence we fought so hard for? Has it all gone and died? Will the corpse of Oslo come back to destroy us? Oh, no, we will dress up the corpse and paint a friendly smile on it.


The media will broadcast the news of this latest "peace initiative" as our best friend and our only chance to live, while it stalks the streets of our cities and villages indiscriminately killing our people and sucking the life-blood of the nation. A corpse is still a corpse. Oslo is dead.