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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,arial;font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,arial;font-size:x-small;"> Posted by John Hilley<img src="https://i1.wp.com/images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif" alt="" width="3" /><a href="http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/info/user=jhilley" target="user_info"><img title="User Info" src="https://i2.wp.com/images.boardhost.com/user_silhouette.png" border="0" alt="" align="absmiddle" /></a><img src="https://i1.wp.com/images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif" alt="" width="3" /><a href="mailto:johnwhilley@yahoo.co.uk"><img title="Email User" src="https://i0.wp.com/images.boardhost.com/mail_light.png" border="0" alt="" align="absbottom" /></a> on January 7, 2011, 6:26 pm</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana,arial;font-size:x-small;"> Dear Tarik Kafala</p>
<p>The BBC&#8217;s online report &#8216;West Bank civilian dies in Israeli army raid in Hebron&#8217; leads with this line:</p>
<p>&#8220;Israeli  troops have shot dead a 67-year-old Palestinian man by mistake in an  operation to arrest members of the Islamist militant organisation,  Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12133918">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12133918</a></p>
<p>Why does the piece assume this man was shot &#8220;by mistake&#8221;?</p>
<p>Firstly, where&#8217;s the usual &#8220;Israel says&#8221; caveat?</p>
<p>Moreover,  isn&#8217;t it evident that the Israeli army just decided to shoot this man  while asleep in his bed, whether he was the suspect or not?</p>
<p>After  all, there&#8217;s no indication that they attempted to waken or identify the  person they supposedly thought was their suspect, leading to the  reasonable assumption that there was no mistake in the actual,  deliberate act of killing an unarmed, defenceless, sleeping civilian.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t  you think this way of reporting permits the false message that the IDF  were &#8216;mistaken&#8217; in their actions, rather than guilty of randomly  murdering a civilian, any civilian?</p>
<p>Perhaps you would like to  look again at the wording and tenor of this story, hopefully realising  the very distorted impression it conveys.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>John Hilley </span></p>
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