[National Post-Canada] Tom Gross - Large sections of the international media are not only misreporting the current conflict in Lebanon, they are actively fanning the flames. International television channels have used the same footage of Beirut over and over, showing the destruction of a few individual buildings in a manner which suggests that half the city has been razed. The BBC World Service has increasingly come to sound like a virtual propaganda tool for Hizballah. The fact that this is a two-sided war (started, of course, by Hizballah) is all but obscured. As a result, from BBC broadcasts you wouldn't really know that hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been living in bomb shelters for weeks now. You wouldn't have any real understanding of what it is like to have over 2,000 Iranian and Syrian rockets rain down indiscriminately on towns, villages, and farms across one-third of your country, aimed at killing civilians. You wouldn't really appreciate that Hizballah, far from being some rag-tag militia, is in effect a division in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, with relatively advanced weapons.
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