The anti-Israel bias of the Chicago Tribune hit a new low with your front-page photo on Aug. 24 of a mournful, somber Palestinian father holding the photo of his 19-year-old son, a suicide bomber, who was captured by the Israelis before he could detonate his bomb and kill more innocent women and children. The headline: “No room for mistakes” (for a suicide bomber).
Although a picture is worth a thousand words, the photo and the story that followed had only one message: sympathy for the family whose son “languishes” in an Israeli prison since he could not carry out his demented mission.
If this were 1942, would the Chicago Tribune carry a front-page picture of a Japanese father holding the photo of his kamikaze pilot son who had been captured by the American Navy because his planned attack did not hit and destroy a ship?
Would anyone in this country feel 1 ounce of sympathy?
One would think the Palestinian father’s photo would have appeared in a Palestinian newspaper, not in a newspaper in the United States, a country which extols liberty and freedom and decries terrorism, especially when it is aimed at innocent civilians–terrorism that has victimized our country and its citizens.
Was this photo an accident, an inadvertent blunder?
No.
Since the intifada commenced, the Tribune has shown a shocking and brazen pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bias when supposedly reporting news.
This has all been done under the guise of front-page human-interest stories.
The Tribune has been noteworthy as the most anti-Israel major newspaper in the country.
It is pathetic and shameful.
You should be embarrassed.
The proof was in the pudding on the next day.
There, on Page 4, was a photo of two young Palestinian boys watching the funeral of an 11-year-old “killed by Israeli soldiers.” Nowhere in the article did it even describe how the boy died.
The death of children is tragic, but no one (not even the Tribune) disputes one immutable fact–the Israelis were not and are not the aggressors. They did not start this “war.” They offered peace; it has been soundly rejected.
It is the Palestinians who continue to engage in these abhorrent suicide bombings of innocents.
