The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57865   Message #916085
Posted By: CarolC
22-Mar-03 - 02:17 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Peaceful protestor killed by bulldozer
Subject: RE: Obit: Peaceful protestor killed by bulldozer
Janice, you're a fruitcake. I'm not going to talk to you any more, but I'll answer the questions you posed because they've been put out there, and they deserve an answer. Have a nice life.

Forum Lurker, I think I phrased that badly. What I was trying to say, and I hope I do a better job of it this time, is that if I see something that could be construed as being critical of Israel, or even something that disputes the prevailing point of view about events in the region, and it comes from a Palestinian or Arab source (or any source that promotes hatred of any kind), I will not use it. What I will do is see if I can find it in some other kind of source. That might include a website maintained by Jews, or maybe a news source that is held to certain standards of journalistic accountability.

There is a website that I would dearly love to provide links to because it contains a lot of quotes from early Zionist leaders. It is a site that is maintained by displaced Palestinians. I will not provide any links to that site unless I can find another corroborating source for those quotes in a site that is maintained by either Jews, an international human rights organization, or a university's historical department, or something along those lines.

Conversely, if I see material that is critical of Palestinians, or that promotes an historical view that seems like it could be biased against Palestinians, and it is in a site that is maintained by a Jewish organization, I would like to find a source for it that maintained by someone who is not affiliated with any Jewish organizations. I would like to find it in a site that is maintained by Palestinians, or an international human rights organization, or something along those lines.