David Gregory continues his bias in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
David Gregory was called out by United Nation Relief and Works Agency spokesman Chris Gunness. David Gregory showed an uncorroborated video of missiles being fired from a UN School that was released by the Israeli government.
Chris Gunness told David Gregory it was unfair to ask him to comment on a video he had not seen while showing it to millions of Americans.
One must wonder if the upfront callout of David Gregory had an impact. It seems that his folks must have quickly contacted the UN for their interpretation of the video. This should have been done before David Gregory allowed our airwaves to be used via Meet The Press as a propaganda arm of the Israeli government. Neither side must be allowed to do that.
At the end of the program David Gregory told the other side of the story. The UN said the video does not show what the Israeli government purports it is showing. 16 people including many kids died in that bombing of the UN school flying the blue UN flag.
Sadly much of the media in the US instead of showing balance and accurate reporting, have allowed one side, mostly the Israeli side to dominate the ‘explaining’ coverage. The carnage in Gaza is deplorable, yet it is treated in an antiseptic manner on the US airwaves.
When one objects or attempts to tell the story in a balanced form as did journalist Rula Jebreal, one is made to pay. All her TV appearances were cancelled. As of Saturday there were 1035 Palestinians dead and thousands maimed. There are less than 50 Israelis dead. If this isn’t a violent immoral asymmetry I do not know what is. Does anyone believe that if the carnage disparity numbers were reversed the coverage would be different?
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Ultimately, by calling out the pro-Israeli bias of one reporter, you are also calling attention to the fact that you have failed to call out the pro-Hamas bias of several reporters too.
You are also misrepresenting the Israeli claim in this incident. What the IDF claims -and was verified by the UN- is that it requested for 3 days that the civilians evacuate the school, that Hamas, and not the IDF, refused safe passage to the civilians, and that both Hamas and IDF exchanged fire in the area of the school, so that it was hard to know, as of yet, whose round had killed the civilians. When exposing others’ biases, be careful not to forget your own.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I try to be careful with my biases. What Hamas is doing by firing rockets into Israel indiscriminately is terrible and already declared a war crime. My problem is that Israel is capable of mitigating the effectiveness of those rockets without itself killing scores of the innocent. They are creating more hate as decimate neighborhoods and innocent people.
Look I have no stake in the game but the propensity to kill is on both side but asymmetric. I am neither for or against Palestine or Israel. I am against killing.
Speaking pf bias, you might have mentioned that even the UN finds evidence the UN school was hit by Palestinian, not Israeli, rocket fire.
to quote someone “what difference does it make”. the reason for this war is that Israel is incrementally stealing Palestinian land and building settlements. With the recent killing of 3 Israeli youths, Netanhanyu said “we will build another settlement in their memory:. I heard it on TV. The Palestinians live like prisoners, even the water they need is withheld and given to the Israeli chickens. Israel has a shield developed by the US that shields most of the incoming rockets. but a 500 pound bomb can’t be stopped from reaching its’ target in Gaza