Israeli demonstration challenges media bias
The large peace rally in Israel today is really confusing the heck out of Europe's leftist media. Ariel Sharon is consistently portrayed as the evil hawk, and his Gaza disengagement plan has been met with deep suspicion here, to put it mildly. So when the Likud party handed him a stinging defeat by rejecting the plan, glee filled the pages of European newspapers.
Now, the majority of Israelis clearly support Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan, and the demonstration today was a clear support for it, but it was organised by the Labour party along with various peace groups, and the left's unlikely hero (through little fault of his own, I have to add) Shimon Peres addressed the crowd in support of the plan.
Of course, the Norwegian state broadcaster and anti-semitic bastion NRK took great pains avoiding to mention anything that could remind the viewers that this large demonstration was not precisely a stinging rebuke to Sharon. They had no problems finding and interviewing the least representative people they could find, but the irony was quite sickening.
These guys are such a self-parody sometimes. I wish they were all striking. For a very long time.
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