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We are a group of Israelis who think that the international media often present Israel, its policies and actions in a simplistic and distorted fashion.
This gives a wrong impression of reality and does a grave injustice to the image of Israel, which is the only true democracy in the Middle East, We are here to right the wrongs done to us by the media and enable an open discussion between you and us.


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3/09/2010

Where is Goldstone?

Here are bare, even tearful facts: NATO forces attacked a convoy of vehicles in Afghanistan, killing 27 innocent Afghan civilians, including 4 women and a child. For those who have already forgotten, not too long ago, 13 Afghans were killed, all innocent, when a rocket was shot into a civilian house by mistake instead of the position of Taliban fighters.


Let there be no misunderstanding: Even from a distance of a thousand miles, even when it comes to unknown families in a foreign country hostile to us, loss of life is very painful, the sudden deaths of people who wanted to live, love, build a house, plant a tree. From this point of view, our tears are real and are the same as all tears all over the world.


But now, after reviewing all this, we have a small question, tiny, miniature, something unimportant at all: Where are you, Goldstone?


Here is an unintelligent guess: the world is crying and crying for every scratch that is caused to a Palestinian child (we're against, against, against even a scratch like that), the world that presented the State of Israel in the paper every morning and every evening on television as a killer and a murderer that kills girls and shoots windows of houses to later find bodies , bleeding bodies, this world will be quiet, or at most, pay lip service to this incident BBC will get constipated because of the things said in London , the New York Times will take a day or two of blindness, left-wing circles, Berkeley will take this day off, professors at Oxford and Cambridge will spend today and tomorrow playing cricket.


And the world stays and will stay silent. It has justified and good reasons: it's not Jews that shoot Palestinian babies, it's not Israel that protects the lives of the children.

P.S. Don't think that, God forbid, we support the deadly fire that is not in its place. We're just against hypocrisy of a paralyzed world. If we were wrong and the world today complained - we would ask forgiveness. We can make a mistake the first time in this matter.



Ben Dror Yemini, Maariv Newspaper