WHEN A TRUCE IS NOT A TRUCE

To Tell the Truce: Part Two (BackSpin)
Arnold Roth, who founded Keren Malki, is in the process of documenting Palestinian terror attacks since the declaration of a cease-fire last year. See Roth's comment on a Backspin entry earlier today:

The distortions and half-truths carried in the media after the Passover bombing in Tel-Aviv were so annoying that I decided to compile my own list of the bombings, shootings, stabbings and terrorist attempts that have happened since the so-called truce of February 2005.

It's now online at http://www.kerenmalki.org/Ongoing_War.htm The plan is to update it as often as needed; probably daily, the way things are going.

Doing this caused me to compare the facts as I know them with the hopelessly inadequate attempts (especially those of Associated Press and Reuters) that were published everywhere in the last few days. The differences are shocking.

For those of us who care about how Israel's case is presented, and about how the mainstream media keep getting it so wrong, doing this sort of comparison is very dis-spiriting. It highlights how they ignore deaths; they under-report threats; they fail entirely to capture the reality of a small state surrounded by existential danger of the most mortal kind.