Who thinks our media is biased towards Israel?

Our media, that's who! Last night on The News Hour, the talking heads treated us to a round table of anti-Israeli sentiment. The experts were all unanimous in their opinion that the American media was, in their opinion, showing Israel in too good a light. I must not be watching the same news as they are. All I see is the poor suffering Lebanese and I am not being sarcastic, yes, I do believe that they are suffering mightily, horrifically and I wish they didn't have to.

On the other side the media is trying to portray the suffering of Israeli troops. They are not showing the troops' suffering in order to make us feel sorry for Israelis, they are making the suggestion that since the Lebanese are suffering and the troops are suffering, they should all go home and forget the whole thing. Everything will be just hunky dory if the Israelis went home. Of course we can actually talk to the Israeli troops, because they do not try to kill our jornalists. They do not kidnap them, hold them for ransome, nor saw their heads off! The lack of Western access to infomation about Hizballah, leaves a black hole in that area.

I saw a clip of Lebanese men beating a foreign cameraman. Blame everyone else for your troubles, even those trying to report your side of the story. We have no way of actually verifiying the deaths of Hizballah soldiers or following their battle strategy. So we are really left with showing just two sides, Lebanese civilians and Israeli troops.

The reporters in the round table were full of praise for the Arab news outlets and lauded the "nuanced" reporting that Arab journalists are so brilliant at. The journalists were in agreement that American reporting was "black and white" and "Good and evil," the evil of course being the Arabs. I just don't read that into any of the news stories I see on the regular networks.

Hizballah's television station was mentioned as the go to source for news about the conflict in the Muslim world, because the Arab street, "trusted Hizballah to tell "the truth." Honestly, when American journalists are praising Hizballah for its fair reporting you know that we are doomed. One of the most vociferous anti-American journalists, who looked Jewish, said that the Arab stations showed the burned, limbless babies and the American media was too sanitized. Since the Arabs were seeing the damage wrought by "us" it was no wonder that they hated "us." I am at a loss to understand why it is so acceptable for Iraqis to blow childrens limbs off, burn and blind and kill them, but the journalists think that any conflict between Israel and another Arab country is so all fired different.

I need hardly mention that Hizballah is trying to kill as many civilians as it can by continually firing rockets into Israel. I guess it's lower on the scale of evil because it's only attempted murder instead of actual murder. The reality is that their weapons are as primitive as they are.