Al-Canada The CBC continues its regularly biased coverage of Israel, in an article that paints the defencive Rafah incursions as a “massacre” (taking Arafat at his word, it seems):
Israel’s continuing assault on the Rafah refugee camp has killed another 20 Palestinians.
The operation along the Gaza-Egypt border has sparked a growing international outcry. The United Nations and the European Union have demanded an end to the incursion and Amnesty International has accused Israel of war crimes.
Israeli military vehicles in Rafah (AP photo)
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat described the attack as a “big massacre.” He’s calling for international intervention.
It gets worse from there. This is what the CBC refers to as “balanced coverage”. Yeah right.
For a little perspective, check out this Ma’ariv interview (via Meryl):
It was a combat situation, under fire. Soldiers were injured but in the end, we brought our soldiers home. I haven’t told this to anyone but in the midst of this operation, we assisted a baby being born and evacuated an elderly woman who was injured and summoned a local ambulance for her. Terrorists ran and fired from behind the ambulance. Therefore, I do not want to make any comparison between our scale of values and theirs.
“If my soldiers can assist a Palestinian woman giving birth when six of their comrades have been blown to bits in the street but, at the same time, they fire at us from behind an ambulance, you must understand that we are at opposite ends of the scales of values. They are at the very bottom”.
Yet the moral equivalency games continue.