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Letter to
Sun-Sentinel (The entire letter,
as submitted, is printed below. The bold italicized print was edited out for
publication by the Sun-Sentinel) We’ve all laughed at pictures of ourselves where, in perfect sobriety, we were caught with our eyelids drooping and our mouth agape, as if reeling from a night of drinking and drugs. It would be irresponsible, yellow journalism, for a
newspaper to print such a picture with a caption describing the subject as
being intoxicated, using the questionable picture as “proof”. Why then, does the Sun-Sentinel routinely accept and print photographs of Palestinian funerals with only the most histrionic hair-pulling and head-thrown-back wailing participants? Whether the Palestinian casualties were children volunteered by parents, or mentally incompetent victims recruited by terrorists to be in the wrong place at the right time, or actual militants who have died in battle – are their funerals, so laden with theatrical pomp for the cameras, somehow more worthy of our sympathy than the occasionally pictured Israeli funeral where the victim’s family and friends are ‘merely’ weeping quietly and hugging each other, oblivious to the lack of pathos they are evoking? There is no doubt that losing loved ones, under any
circumstances, is a pain that no one hopes to ever know; however, there is
much documented proof of the Palestinian leadership, past and present, openly
admitting during speeches to their own people that much of their war with In light of this, are you, the Sun-Sentinel, so naïve as to think that so much of what you print is not staged or embellished for the camera? Headlining the list of choreographed
chicanery, that has since been exposed as such, is the video of the
Palestinian funeral with the “corpse” running back to his coffin after being
dropped by the pallbearers. If you haven't seen this, then simply Google the
words ‘fake funeral’. As the very first result will indicate, that seemingly
innocuous pair of words has come to define the Palestinian MO for conning
sympathy from those who don’t know better. Now you know better. Will you continue to aid and abet this deception, thereby supporting the notion that ‘the more melodramatic wheel gets the grease?’ - Simon Mirsky |