it would be nice if you used the same sort of critical eye when you read the propaganda coming out of the pro-Sharon camp

Carol, click here and you'll see that the implication of your offensive statement is factually wrong.

I hate one-sided propaganda and I see too much of it cited or linked to in these threads. I have neither time nor (in some cases) the ability to check all of the background of the sources. So I have to rely on other means to make up my mind how much I trust a source.

(1) I look at how selective they are, (2) whether easily checkable details are correct and (3) whether their information is internally consistent. The site I have singled out for critique in my last post has failed on all three counts. The information is completely one-sided (that's a bias from me, I am more prone to trust sites that do not only paint black or paint white), an easily checkable statement of fact (the Bible citation) turns out to be a gross falsification, and their numbers lack internal consistency (easy to spot, I'll leave that as an exercise for the readers).

That's why I don't trust the rest of their information too much. I could be wrong, but they have failed to convince me by their way of presentation that I should take them serious.

Wolfgang