Al Jazeera takes a look at the US mainstream media coverage of the war on Gaza. The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel's war on Gaza. On the left was a Palestinian mother who had lost five children. On the right was a nearly equally sized picture of an Israeli woman who was distressed by the fighting, according to the caption. As the Palestinian woman cradled the dead body of one child, another infant son, his face blackened and disfigured with bruises, cried beside her. The Israeli woman did not appear to be wounded in any way but also wept. To understand the frustration often felt in the Arab world over US media coverage, one only needs to imagine the same front page had the situation been reversed. If an Israeli woman had lost five daughters in a Palestinian attack, would The Washington Post run an equally sized photograph of a relatively unharmed Palestinian woman, who was merely distraught over Israeli missile fire? When the front page photographs of the two women were published on December 30, over 350 Palestinians had reportedly been killed compared to just four Israelis. What if 350 Israelis had been killed and only four Palestinians - would the newspaper have run the stories side by side as if equal in news value? Like many major news organisations in the US, The Washington Post has chosen to cover the conflict from a perspective that reflects the US government's relationship with Israel. This means prioritising Israel's version of events while underplaying the views of Palestinian groups. For example, the newspaper's lead article on Tuesday, which was published above the mothers' photographs, quotes Israeli military and civilian sources nine times before quoting a single Palestinian. The first seven paragraphs explain Israel's military strategy. The ninth paragraph describes the anxiety among Israelis, spending evenings in bomb shelters. Ordinary Palestinians, who generally have no access to bomb shelters, do not make an appearance until the 23rd paragraph. To balance this top story, The Washington Post published another article on the bottom half of the front page about the Palestinian mother and her children. But would the paper have ever considered balancing a story about a massive attack on Israelis with an in-depth lead piece on the strategy of Palestinian militants? Major US television channels also adopted the equal time approach, despite the reality that Palestinian casualties exceeded Israeli ones by a hundred fold. However, such comparisons were rare because the scripts read by American correspondents often excluded the overall Palestinian death count. By stripping the context, American viewers may have easily assumed a level playing field, rather than a case of disproportionate force. Take the opening lines of a report filed by NBC's Martin Fletcher on December 30: "In Gaza two little girls were taking out the rubbish and killed by an Israeli rocket - while in Israel, a woman had been driving home and was killed by a Hamas rocket. No let up today on either side on the fourth day of this battle." Omitted from the report was the overall Palestinian death toll, dropped continuously in subsequent reports filed by NBC correspondents over the next several days. When number of deaths did appear - sometimes as a graphic at the bottom of the screen - it was identified as the number of "people killed" rather than being attributed specifically to Palestinians. No wonder the overwhelmingly asymmetrical bombardment of Gaza has been framed vaguely as "rising tensions in the Middle East" by news anchors. With the lack of context, the power dynamic on the ground becomes unclear. ABC news, for example, regularly introduced events in Gaza as "Mideast Violence". And Like NBC, reporters excluded the Palestinian death toll. On December 31, when Palestinian deaths stood at almost 400, ABC correspondent Simon McGergor-Wood began a video package by describing damage to an Israeli school by Hamas rockets. The reporter's script can be paraphrased as follows: Israel wanted a sustainable ceasefire; Israel needed to prevent Hamas from rearming; Hamas targets were hit; Israel was sending in aid and letting the injured out; Israel was doing "everything they can to alleviate the humanitarian crisis". And with that McGregor-Wood signed off. There was no parallel telling of the Palestinian perspective, and no mention of any damages to Palestinian lives, although news agencies that day had reported five Palestinians dead. For the ABC correspondent, it seemed the Palestinian deaths contained less news value than damage to Israeli buildings. His narration of events, meanwhile, amounted to no less than a parroting of the official Israeli line. In fact, the Israeli government view typically went unchallenged on major US networks.

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Added: January 9, 2009

ناطق بإسم جيش الد�اع الإسرائيلي يحاول تبرير للشعب ال�لسطيني المجازر المرتكبة �ي غزة عبر التلي�زيون. قــال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : أن لم تـسـتـحـــي �ـا�ـعـــل مـاشـئت !!! The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war. • Collective punishment: The entire 1.5 million people who live in the crowded Gaza Strip are being punished for the actions of a few militants. • Targeting civilians: The airstrikes were aimed at civilian areas in one of the most crowded stretches of land in the world, certainly the most densely populated area of the Middle East. • Disproportionate military response: The airstrikes have not only destroyed every police and security office of Gaza's elected government, but have killed and injured hundreds of civilians; at least one strike reportedly hit groups of students attempting to find transportation home from the university. Earlier Israeli actions, specifically the complete sealing off of entry and exit to and from the Gaza Strip, have led to severe shortages of medicine and fuel (as well as food), resulting in the inability of ambulances to respond to the injured, the inability of hospitals to adequately provide medicine or necessary equipment for the injured, and the inability of Gaza's besieged doctors and other medical workers to sufficiently treat the victims. Certainly the rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel are unlawful. But that illegality does not give rise to any Israeli right, neither as the Occupying Power nor as a sovereign state, to violate international humanitarian law and commit war crimes or crimes against humanity in its response. I note that Israel's escalating military assaults have not made Israeli civilians safer; to the contrary, the one Israeli killed today after the upsurge of Israeli violence is the first in over a year. Israel has also ignored recent Hamas diplomatic initiatives to re-establish the truce or ceasefire since its expiration on December 26. The Israeli airstrikes today, and the catastrophic human toll that they caused, challenge those countries that have been and remain complicit, either directly or indirectly, in Israel's violations of international law. That complicity includes those countries knowingly providing the military equipment including warplanes and missiles used in these illegal attacks, as well as those countries who have supported and participated in the siege of Gaza that itself has caused a humanitarian catastrophe. I remind all Member States of the United Nations that the UN continues to be bound to an independent obligation to protect any civilian population facing massive violations of international humanitarian law--regardless of what country may be responsible for those violations. I call on all Member States, as well as officials and every relevant organ of the United Nations system, to move on an emergency basis not only to condemn Israel's serious violations, but to develop new approaches to providing real protection for the Palestinian people.

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Added: January 9, 2009

http://www.WatchMojo.com counts down the Top 10 NHL forwards of all time: The Montreal Canadiens' Maurice Richard, aka The Rocket.

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Keywords: nhl hockey forwards center ice all time best Maurice Richard the rocket montreal canadiens habs
Added: January 7, 2009

Sophie Milman - Rocket Love Sophie Milman is a Russian born jazz vocalist of Jewish heritage. After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, she spent most of her childhood years in Israel listening extensively to jazz. She is currently a permanent resident of Canada. Recorded on July 4, 2007, "Live in Montreal" captures the 2008 Juno Award winner at her best, delivering a knock-out performance at the place that started it all, the world renowned Montreal International Jazz Festival. Sophie Milman - Vocals Cameron Wallis - Woodwinds Paul Shrofel - Piano Kieran Overs - Bass John Fraboni - Drums Kelsley Grant - Trombone Rob Piltch - Guitar Alan Hetherington - Percussion

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Keywords: sophie milman jazz music vocals
Added: January 3, 2009

To watch in HQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kU-vwZ65oU&fmt=18 Amy Gordon has specialized in character acting and physical comedy for the past 15 years. Her solo show, Amy G: On a Roll premiered in October 2007 at New Yorks Dance Theater Workshop. She toured with the Daredevil Opera Company, performing over 600 times in 22 countries: the silent-filmic theatre piece, Cirkus Inferno (incl. Broadways New Victory Theatre (NY), Sydney Opera House, Symphony Space (NY), Royal Theatre Bath, Carpenter Center (LA), Royal Lyceum (Edinburgh), Festival Iberamericano de Teatro de Bogota) the outrageously accident-prone Rocket & Roxys Stunt Show (Adelaide Intl Festival, Sydney Opera House, Edinburgh Fringe), and Drakonsbreath (Kennedy Center (DC), Living Arts Center (Toronto)). She met the Daredevils working as writer/co-director and lead for Broadways smash hit, AntiGravity's Crash Test Dummies at the New Victory. In NYC, Amy G recently played/sang Athena in Todd Almonds techno-conceptual concert, Kansas City Choirboy: Land of the Missing Girls. She was the featured comedienne in 2006s cabaret sensation, Absinthe, as well as The Famous Spiegeltents critically acclaimed La Clique in Melbourne, Montreal, Dublin, Sydney and Adelaide. She plays with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (Winter Cabaret, The Palace of Variety, Down and Out in New York, Buckaroo Bindlestiffs Wild West Gender Bender Jamboree), and countless downtown theatre, dance, and comedy venues. She was the skinny half of the comedy duo, Matlock & Gordon in their show, A Tale of Two Sillies. Independent film roles have ranged from the ridiculous zombie FBI Agent, Leonore Sans Sanguina in The Lazarus Complex to the sublime newlywed angel, Anna in A Thousand Years. Amy has a degree in Theatre Arts from Western Washington University where she was lauded as a Finalist in the Kennedy Center/Irene Ryan ACTF Competition and with the Outstanding Senior Award. She continues her studies with masters including Phillipe Gaulier, Rene Bazinet, David Shiner, Avner Eisenberg and Kenny Raskin. In Los Angeles, she has studied with Lesly Kahn and Margie Haber. Gordon has directed shows at PS122, Dixon Place, Nada 45, The Kraine, and the highly irregular variety show, The Circuit. The dance training of her youth (Spectrum Dance Theatre, Seattle) lead her to many choreographic jobs in Seattles new musical scene of the 1990s including Glory Booty Club, I See London, I See France, Cat-Like Tread (Annex Theatre), and Little Boy Goes to Hell (One World Theatre). She helped develop and direct the Cruise Comic program for Royal Caribbean Int'l, and the comedy duo Matlock & Gordon in A Tale of Two Sillies.

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Added: December 30, 2008