Tehran Times Opinion Column, Nov. 20, By Yuram Weiler - (click here for full story)
TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) -- During the week of November 2-8, while people in the United States were preoccupied with the mid-term elections, a massacre took place in Gaza, with 86 human beings killed by Israeli forces. This massacre, as well as the continuing Israeli assault on Gaza seems to go largely unnoticed by the mainstream U.S. media.
Israeli forces began the assault, called "Operation Autumn Clouds", on Beit Hanoun and the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, November 1, 2006. Since that time, Israeli forces have continued to launch air strikes on houses and civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip, razing large areas in Beit Hanoun as well as in neighboring areas.
I must ask the question: Why is this massacre being ignored in the U.S. press? Is it because we Americans are too preoccupied with ourselves and our recent elections? Is it because the killing of a mere 86 people is not sufficient to warrant our attention against the background of murder in Iraq, where that many people are killed on a daily basis? Or perhaps, is it because reporting the massacre would not serve the best interests of a particular U.S./Israeli agenda, which is to justify the “war on terror” and its crucial battlefront, the Arab-Israeli conflict?
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