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Does Anyone Care that Israelis Are Being Stabbed to Death in the Streets?
(International Business Times) Yiftah Curiel - Over 100 Israelis were injured in over 50 terror attacks in October; 11 were murdered and 14 were in serious condition. Israelis, from children to the elderly, were being murdered in broad daylight in towns across the country. Yet the media did not seem to get it right even under these circumstances. Initial headlines, before being corrected, reflected the media's unwillingness to forgo their automatic mode of reporting on the region, in which Palestinians must play the role of victims, and Israelis the aggressors. When a television presenter asks Jerusalem's mayor if carrying a gun to protect oneself from a stabbing wasn't "excessive," does he wish for Israelis to passively accept the terrorist's knife in their chest, and not defend themselves? What we have witnessed these past weeks has looked like solidarity with murderous Palestinian knife-wielders, mixed with callousness towards innocent Israelis' lives. The writer is spokesperson for the Israel Embassy in London.