The double standards at work here were even more starkly highlighted by the difference between the way the media treated Beit Hanoun on the one hand and Sri Lanka on the other. As this report indicates, a similar tragic mistake was made in Sri Lanka a few days ago when at least 45 civilians were killed after army shells hit a camp for people displaced by the fighting between Tamil Tigers and government forces.
Just as in Israel, the Sri Lankan army has accused the rebels of using civilians as human shields. Yet this incident has provoked merely universal indifference. While Beit Hanoun was given enormous and horrific coverage, Sri Lanka produced merely a few buried paragraphs. Clearly, dead Sri Lankans count for far less than dead Palestinians.
Why? Because the media don’t hate Sri Lanka and do hate Israel.
Hear, hear!
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