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Why does the media always show Palestinian "victims", but never shows Israeli victims?

I keep noticing that when the media (especially the international media) reports on terrorism in Israel, they report the story without showing pictures of the victims. They could show the people, covered in blood, as they are rushed to hospitals. They could show the discos and pizza shops that are the targets of these cowardly terrorists. They could show the children and teens and business people that are the targets of religious hatred. But they don't. They show the Israeli Army personnel, or helicopter gunships hovering over towns.

Contrast that with the coverage the Palestinians get. Do they ever show Hamas leaders shooting guns into the sky, or their terror troops setting up Ketusha rockets to launch into farms and towns? No, they show children being loaded into ambulances, even though many times those children are the victims of the bullets that their "leaders" fire into the air. Many times those wounded were close to bomb factories that accidentally blew up from mishandling explosives. But they show them as "victims".

To me, the coverage is very one-sided. I see images that suggest that Israel is the aggressor, even though their military has been in full retreat since 2000.

Palestinians have been committing acts of terror with impunity for years. The World turns a blind eye to it all, since the victims are Jews. They seek to sanction the Israelis for defending their homeland. And they think of themselves as arbiters?

What self-respecting arbiter lets one side lose everything? The Israelis have met every promise, every reasonable demand ever asked of them.

What have the Palestinians ever given anyone? Where is their restraint, their humanity, their civility? They are savages, bent on destruction. No wonder they have no industry, no products to sell, nothing to offer the world. If they spent 10% of the time they spend building and smuggling weapons on production of goods, they might actually start an industry. But terror is still their only business.

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