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There Must Not Be a Ceasefire
by Denis MacEoin
• July 25, 2014 at 5:00 am
Even in its weakest moments,
would Britain have risked a cease-fire with Nazi Germany during World War II
-- knowing that Hitler habitually broke his promises?
In
this photo posted to Twitter by The Wall Street Journal's Nick Casey
(and since deleted), a Hamas spokesman uses a room in Gaza's Shifa Hospital
for a filmed interview, while seated in front of a huge photo of a bomb
crater. The Washington Post has also reported
on the hospital as "a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can
be seen in the hallways and offices."
With their usual mixture of human rights concern and hypocrisy, several
countries have stepped into the fresh Israel-Gaza conflict by demanding a
cease-fire. Egypt has played an important role in this demarche; Hamas has
turned down flatly all the conditions on which Egyptian President al-Sisi
insisted. How far the war will go still hangs in the balance. As Israeli
ground forces now fight with Hamas in their tunnels and bunkers, over 600
Palestinians (largely made up of men of fighting age) have died[1], as well
as over 32 Israelis.
The international pressure from all sides for a ceasefire is widening
and intensifying. Of course, what a ceasefire amounts to, as it has before,
is to give Hamas a second chance. And a third and a fourth — whatever is
needed for them to achieve their clearly stated goals of wiping Israel from
the map, and then Jews.
War "Statistics": The New York Times Deceives Again
by Gil Lavi • July
25, 2014 at 4:00 am
It is the very power of numbers,
graphics and photographs that makes them compelling ways to prove a point,
and lousy ways of explaining what is really going on.
Creating compelling clickbait in
the form of infographics is a disturbing trend in news today. But that is not
"all the news that is fit to print;" that is propaganda.
The
New York Times "Daily Tally" infographic is seriously
misleading, its numbers devoid of all context. (Image source: Screenshot of
nytimes.com)
The "Daily Tally" in the New York Times, a
casual-sounding infographic, presents a side-by-side count of casualties and
missiles in Gaza and Israel. Although it is ostensibly one of the clearest
representations of violence, it is seriously misleading.
War photography can be powerful, moving, and shocking; and data to prove
a point can be reassuring, if often falsely. It is the very power of numbers,
graphics, and photographs that makes them at the same time compelling ways to
prove a point, and lousy ways of explaining what is really going on.
During World War II, it is estimated that 378,000 German civilians were
killed in British air raids, compared to only 62,000 British civilians killed
in German air raids. Knowing this, however, does little to help understand
the nature of the conflict.
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