Although Haaretz is by far the most reasonable voice in the choir of extremist screams in the Middle East, the newspaper often falls in the trap of repeating the mainstream demagogic language. In this case, the ASSAULTS on civilians are called CLASHES. A clash is a fight in which the free choice of TWO parties involved is suggested: TWO groups are clashing.
From the information of the report, one of those two parties is not voluntarily taking part in the fight, in fact, they are not fighting at all, they are only the defensive victims of an attacking group of religious (well, they consider themselves religious, I don`t) thugs. So the header `Seven Arabs injured in assaults by Jews in Jerusalem` would be more realistic. on the 11th of october we read the title `Palestinian farmers, settlers clash near West Bank settlement of Yitzhar` Again, a distortion of reality
the title of th 18th of october was ok:`Hebron settlers assault Palestinians, activists harvesting olives` |
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