This Ongoing War: A Blog: 29-Jun-06: The face of the enemy

Thursday, June 29, 2006

29-Jun-06: The face of the enemy

Reporters from the mainstream media assembled yesterday in Gaza City for a press conference given by a self-admitted terrorist-kidnapper. The gathering's purpose was to advance the terrorists' war by asserting that an eighteen year-old Israeli student, Eliyahu Asheri, snatched by terrorists on Sunday, would be murdered by them if Israel did not immediately cease to do this or start doing that etc.

Mohammed Abdel Al, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, a violent group with ties to the Hamas-led Palestinian government, holds up a poster he said shows the Israeli identity card of abducted Jewish settler Eliahu Pinchas Asheri during a news conference in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 28, 2006. The PRC on Wednesday threatened to kill Asheri if Israel doesn't stop its raid on the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

It's now evident (on Thursday morning) that Eliyahu Asheri, son of Miriam and Yitro (Yitro moved to Israel from Australia at about the same time we did) had been dead for several days by the time the man in the picture above made his cynical speech and contemptuously waved his photographs.

We wonder whether this still qualifies him to be called 'militant' (as most media channels did yesterday) or whether 'terrorist', 'kidnapper', 'murderer' or 'savage' are ever pressed into service as descriptors. We'll know the next time his PRC terrorist group calls another press conference.

The moral agnosticism (some would call it blindness) of reporters and editors who persist in referring to lying, murdering thugs like the man in the picture as 'militants' is at the very heart of the rampant confusion and ignorance that surrounds this ongoing conflict.

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