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In summing up this past week’s West Bank violence, both the Associated Press and The Guardian are just two of the media outlets that compared the casualty figures for both Israelis and Palestinians, effectively creating a moral equivalence between the two.
This equivalence is flawed, however, as it does not take into account the fact that all Israelis killed over the past week were civilians while over 70% of the Palestinians killed were members of internationally recognized terror groups and/or engaged in violence against Israeli civilians and security forces at the time of their deaths.
This past week, the four Israeli casualties, ranging in age between 17 and 64, were killed during a Palestinian terror attack at a restaurant and gas station outside the Jewish community of Eli in the northern West Bank.
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This past week, 16 Palestinians were killed by Israelis during seven separate incidents. Of these 16, 12 were members of terrorist organizations and/or engaged in anti-Israel violence:
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When mainstream news organizations compare the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed during the latest West Bank violence without detailing the number of Palestinians killed who were members of terrorist organizations and/or taking part in anti-Israel violence, they effectively equate the latter with innocent civilians.
This not only fails to meet appropriate journalistic standards but also does a disservice to their audience by failing to properly inform them as to the true nature of the statistics that they are publishing.
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