This, he added, “is just a consequence of a deliberate policy to frame Israel not only as responsible for the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict but as responsible for the situation in the Middle East. Thus, Israel is [constantly] portrayed as an archetype of evil or an oppressor.”
“Not even the war in Syria has produced such headlines,” he noted.
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“The average European reader has incorporated the difference in coverage as a natural thing, as Israel being ‘different’ from the rest, and that the attacks against its citizens are something evidently justified. In this way, the Palestinians have become the archetypical victim.”
(JNS)
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