Parody
Parody To: All Western Correspondents From: Your Editors Re: Welcome to Ramallah! April 1, 2002 We are so glad you are covering the Israeli invasion of the West Bank for us.Unfortunately, many...
...You may rememberthat we ran charts showing the al Qaeda and Taliban leadership, noting whichhad been captured or killed...
...But they were bothlovely bright charming girls caught in this tragedy...
...To do so would be to imply theIsraeli actions might be justified...
...For a model of howto do this, see Joel Greenberg’s April 5 story in the New York Times: “2 Girls,Divided by War, Joined in Carnage...
...action inAfghanistan...
...Stories of ambulances being stopped are ofspecial value (references to the terrorist practice of using ambulances totransport explosives shall not be included in the top 67 paragraphs of anystory...
...Some of you may be tempted to cover this event the same wayyou covered that one...
...The correct emotion in this case is that all violence isbad, whether committed by terrorists or against them...
...Both victims...
...Thus this story should be covered differently: 1) In Afghanistan we paid enormous amounts of attention to whether or notOsama bin Laden or Mullah Omar had been apprehended...
...3) In Afghanistan we covered civilian casualties from a distance...
...It is impermissible...
...We will simply not ask that question...
...In the WestBank, we shall cover nothing but...
...This is incorrect...
...forces, and the bravery of American Special Forces soldiers who wereinvolved in hand-to-hand fighting with terrorists...
...action in Afghanistan was aneffort to root out a terror organization, which had sponsored suicide attackson a democratic nation...
...2) In Afghanistan we spent a lot of time detailing the technical wizardry ofU.S...
...The U.S...
...April 1, 2002 We are so glad you are covering the Israeli invasion of the West Bank for us.Unfortunately, many of you are fresh from covering the U.S...
...A Palestinian girl decided to commit murder...
...Instead we shall dwell almost exclusively on the brutality of thesoldiers...
...In the West Bank, however, we do not care if theterrorist organizers of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or Al Aksa are killed or cap-tured...
...The Israeli invasion of the West Bank is part of atragic cycle of violence...
...An Israeli girl woke up and decided to goshopping...
...In Israel, remember, all are equal...
...In the West Bank, we shallnot do that...
...Good Luck...
...troops was a soldier.In Palestine, a soldier killed by Israelis is a “policeman” or “nurse...
...In Afghanistan a Taliban soldier killed by U.S...
...4) In Afghanistan the members of al Qaeda were treated as moral inferiors tothe American troops...
Vol. 7 • April 2002 • No. 30
