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[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by becca

As far as rejoicing, you have to look at the media exaggerating things by repeating one image over and over... like thise Palestinian kids jumping around happy supposedly because the WTC was destroyed (as opposed to say the fact that they had just been given a lot of candy); you would think that all these little kids in Palestine were celebrating death and destruction. That is just a very blatant example. Al Jazeera does the same thing showing civillian casualties that aren't even shown much over here at all, nor including the fact when they are being used by insurgent guerillas as human shields. Also some Arabic networks love to cover the history of the western Crusades of the middle ages and our TLC, Discovery Channel, History Channel or A&E has had as many shows just about the WTC bombing. In Canada like England we are sometimes in a good position to see both sides' coverage of things but getting two extremes isn't the best way to find the middle always.

With all due respect (and I have bunches for you ) I agree the media does play it up, but that cannot erase the images of the thousands shown on all reporting sources.

And - we agree (I think) the problem is with the education of both sides and the mass media's lack thereof.

In the end, I say if we are all to survivie on this planet, it will take looking to a peaceful future and forgetting the past, as hard as that may be. Revenge never solves any problems.