When in college, I was dutifully schooled about “fairness, balance” etc. Since then I have learned the media are not fair or balanced in many ways. One is the extreme preference given to Jewish affairs.
Israel must get more coverage than any foreign country and more than many of the fifty states. Its elections get more coverage than those of other countries. We are taken step by step through each Israeli conflict, but given less of the other side. We get the full anguish of Israeli funer als, but little of those of her enemies.
We are imprinted with details of the West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, the Mitla Pass, Masada, the Wailing Wall, the Knesset, Hebrew, Yiddish, unleavened bread, the, Hasidic group, Israeli unions, strikes, inflation, kibbutz’s, farming, resorts, exchange students, tourist industry …. Their housing shortage was on page three. Their daylight savings was page one. An Israeli boy getting stabbed got two articles. A sixteen page supplement on the U.S. military had one page on Israel’s military. Why? Their prime minister broke his leg - page one. How often have we heard about Ecuador, Kenya, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand …?
Outside So. Vietnam, Israel has gotten more U.S. aid since WWII than any county. During the Eisenhower era, Secretary of State Dulles complained, “We cannot have all our policies made in Jerusalem,” and, “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.”
Former congressman Pete McCloskey felt the “Jewish lobby … completely unbalanced U.S. foreign policy.” He felt their power should be “recognized and countered in open and fair debate … without raising the red flag of anti Semitism.”
Most Americans have a European heritage. We hear little about that compared to Jewish heritage.
The media never lets us forget that six million Jews died in the Holocaust. Six million others died in it, from l4 other ethnic groups Gypsies, Slavs, Serbs …. Are their deaths less important?
What about the genocide of Armenians, the Cambodian killing fields, or Stalin’s starving l0 million Russians in the early 30s?
We read about tracking down German war criminals of ww2 who killed jews, not Italian war criminals, nor Japanese.
The Jews claim uniqueness. What about Gypsies, Basques, Sikhs, Kurds, others?
If we’re not supposed to discriminate on one hand, we shouldn’t favor on the other.
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