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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-739596
Bereaved Husband and Father Challenges International Media to Cover Israel Fairly
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Hoffman - Rabbi Leo Dee's wife, Lucy, and his daughters, Maia and Rina, were murdered in a Palestinian shooting attack in the Jordan Valley. They were targeted because they were Jews. Thrust into the spotlight, Rabbi Dee used his pulpit to challenge the international media to cover Israel fairly. His message was, "Never accept terror as legitimate, never blame the murder on the victims, and there is no such thing as moral equivalence between terrorist and victim. The terrorist is always bad." "We can't trust the news - sorry, gentlemen," Dee said at a press conference. He dared the foreign press to stop criticizing Israel for existing. "Isn't that how the world media treats Israel? We build, they murder us, they destroy. [They say] it's your fault, since you built it in the first place." He implored world media, "Do you really believe in moral equivalence? Will you continue to support evil by giving it a voice? Am I and my family really a threat to world peace? We who teach kindness and love? We who value life over anything else? Is this anonymous killer really justified? Is he progressing moral values and a future for himself? Come on! Wake up! Listen to your souls." The writer, former chief political correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, is executive director of HonestReporting.