Habib Battah in Al-Jazeera English:
The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel's war on Gaza.
On the left was a Palestinian mother who had lost five children. On
the right was a nearly equally sized picture of an Israeli woman who
was distressed by the fighting, according to the caption.
As
the Palestinian woman cradled the dead body of one child, another
infant son, his face blackened and disfigured with bruises, cried
beside her.
The Israeli woman did not appear to be wounded in any way but also wept.
To understand the frustration often felt in the Arab world over US
media coverage, one only needs to imagine the same front page had the
situation been reversed.
If an Israeli woman had lost five daughters in a Palestinian attack, would The Washington Post
run an equally sized photograph of a relatively unharmed Palestinian
woman, who was merely distraught over Israeli missile fire?
When the front page photographs of the two women were published on
December 30, over 350 Palestinians had reportedly been killed compared
to just four Israelis.
