A Sept. 23 article by Storer H. Rowley (Main news) began with the following sentence:
“The drive-by shootings of two security guards from the Israeli Embassy in Jordan on Monday signaled a deepening Arab mood of anger and resentment toward Israel over the stalemate in Mideast peacemaking.”
How transparent is the anti-Israeli bias of Tribune correspondents who routinely editorialize in their news stories about the Mideast? In the Tribune’s world view, no matter what insane acts of terrorism get committed by the sworn enemies of Israel, the blame always somehow traces to provocation from Israeli policies.
Here’s an alternative way to write that lead sentence:
“A demented Arab gunman shot and wounded two security guards at the Israel Embassy in Jordan to continue the cycle of irrational violence that has plagued the Arab world for as long as anyone can remember and has been directed as often at fellow Arabs as Israelis.”
Both sentences belong on the Editorial Page rather than leading off a news story, but I leave it to fair-minded readers to decide for themselves which more accurately portrays the situation in the Middle East.
