It's extraordinary how the accidental (at the very worst) deaths of Gazans on the beach during a bombardment by Israeli forces on Friday can consign the background theme to oblivion. Background theme? Yes - the relentless terror war emanating from Gaza, directed at any Jew or Israeli they can possibly reach. While we report, day after day, on missiles landing in children's bedrooms, in school-grounds, in class-rooms, reporters and their editors deliberately ignore these events. It's as if Israelis have lost the right to be viewed as victims.
We have had enough personal exposure to the mainstream media (reporters, photographers, editors, stringers, producers) to know that decisions about this are being made all the time by people who, in many cases, have a personal or political agenda - something quite illegitimate in terms of every journalistic norm.
So we will keep publishing our alternative reports and hope that enough people, suspecting that the picture they're getting via the brand-name channels, is not the whole story.
We began producing This Ongoing War on the website of the Malki Foundation. But we have quickly outgrown that facility, so from today onwards, we're publishing here on Blogspot.
Please tell your friends.
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