The Daniel Pearl Standard

[msmcghee]

By JUDEA PEARL
January 30, 2008; Page A17

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One of the things that saddens me most is that the press and media have had an active, perhaps even major role in fermenting hate and inhumanity. It was not religious fanaticism alone.

This was first brought to my attention by the Pakistani Consul General who came to offer condolences at our home in California. When we spoke about the anti-Semitic element in Danny's murder she said: "What can you expect of these people who never saw a Jew in their lives and who have been exposed, day and night, to televised images of Israeli soldiers targeting and killing Palestinian children."

At the time, it was not clear whether she was trying to exonerate Pakistan from responsibility for Danny's murder, or to pass on the responsibility to European and Arab media for their persistent de-humanization of Jews, Americans and Israelis. The answer was unveiled in 2004, when a friend told me that photos of Muhammad Al Dura were used as background in the video tape of Danny's murder.

Al Dura, readers may recall, is the 12-year-old Palestinian boy who allegedly died from Israeli bullets in Gaza in September of 2001. As we now know, the whole scene is very likely to have been a fraud, choreographed by stringers and cameramen of France 2, the official news channel of France. France 2 aired the tape repeatedly and distributed it all over the world to anyone who needed an excuse to ratchet up anger or violence, among them Danny's killers.

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[still_one]

1. There is no justification to what happened to Danny Pearl

I heard a speech by Wes Clark and he related the following story:

He had ordered bombing in a certain area of Bosnia, and the bombs missed their target, and landed on a school where students were present.

In that school was the grandaugter of the mayor of that town. He wrote a letter to General Clark, which indicated what had happened, and that he would always hold him responsibile for killing his grandaugter, and his hate for General Clark would NEVER diminish with time

The point Clark was making was that when people's children or families are killed by war or violence, it has a ripple affect

We went to Iraq, dropped bomb, killed innocent people, those people will always hold us responsible until the next generation

Those people killed in 9/11 will feel in a very similar way

Whether the violence is done by a government or a terrorist organization the results are the same, hate creates hate.

That is why the Baker/Hamilton report recommended a dialog with all parties.

[kayecy]

3. Are all those believers in 'one-side-is-never-wrong' listening?

Whether the violence is done by a government or a terrorist organization the results are the same, hate creates hate.

Well said still_one.

[rockymountaindem]

2. Nevermind n.t