What a pleasure to catch up on the news after Sukkot, the blood from the last terrorist attacks in Israel barely dry, and read what the Egyptian ambassador had to say about the attacks.

The attack that took place was – with all due respect to …

One type of blogging I’ve never really done is the roundup of good reads at other blogs. It’s just never occurred to me, but I’ve noticed a couple things people have said over the last days that really deserve more…

22 words that says it all. What on Earth is taking it so long. It shoud be worked on 24/7/365. I am sick of reading excuse for its snail like pace.

I completely agree with your take on the media. The BBC article you linked to got me going enough to write them a letter of complaint. I pointed out that they depersonalised the victims by not even mentioning that these were young people, but simply ‘Israelis’. Now, on reading your post, I can see that the more serious omission was the lack of names and other details – though in fairness the killings were still very recent.

Strangely enough, shortly after I submitted the letter, I saw that the BBC had updated the story with an article desribing the victims as ‘young Israelis’. That article has been removed from the site and been replaced by this one, titled ‘Israel cracks down after killings’:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4348726.stm
The article starts off in typical BBC fashion by describing the victims as ’settlers’ but the second half of it goes into reasonable detail, including naming the victims.

It’s as if two BBC reporters contributed to the same article – one a rabid anti-Semite, and the other fair-minded.

The BBC appears to take complaints seriously and undertakes to respond within ten days. We’ll see.

There are always the stats, X number of people killed, but when one reads about the lives snuffed out, the young people whose lives seems so full of promise, it hurts deep inside.
And somehow I doubt they will get so much as a mention in the MSM like…