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MEDIA MONITOR
Sabra and Shatila
And Media Hypocrisy
BY M. J. ROSENBERG
In one week Shiite militiamen
in Beirut laid seige to Palestinian
strongholds, killed 350 and
wounded another 1,300. A car
bomb blew up in Christian east
Beirut and killed 60, including
children on a school bus. Twenty
Shiite fighters were slaughtered
by the Palestinians after they
were poisoned with drugged tea.
In short, it was the bloodiest
week in Lebanon since 1982.
Of course, you might not know
that from reading the newspaper
or watching television. Coverage
of this chapter of the Lebanon
tragedy has been scanty indeed.
There are no screaming head-
lines and no shocked and despair-
ing commentaries from corre-
spondents and reporters. There
are no television specials on the
killings. On the contrary, news of
the Lebanon massacres is re-
ported in a bored tone as if Leba-
non is no longer a country and
violence there is no longer news.
The news magazines of June 3
have little to say about Lebanon.
U.S. News and World Report pro-
vides the most detailed coverage
— a full page on "the fiercest
fighting since Israel invaded
Lebanon in 1982." Time devotes a
half page to the Shiite assault on
the Palestinians, correctly ob-
serving that the Shiites "re-
member the steely grip the PLO
maintained over southern Leba-
non before the 1982 Israeli inva-
sion and are determined that the
Palestinians never regain their
power." (Time, of course, did not
concede this point when Israel
claimed that it had liberated
south Lebanon from that same
"steely grip" in 1982).
The third news magazine,
Newsweek, doesn't even bother to
mention Lebanon's bloodiest
week. In an issue where space
was found for more than two
pages on Sylvester Stallone's
latest film, there is not a word on
Lebanon.
This indifference to the killing
in Lebanon in 1985 is especially
striking when compared to the
coverage given to the Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps massacre
of September 1982. The compari-
son is apt because those same
camps are the scene of much of
the killing today and even the
number of casualties are approx-
imately the same. .
The main difference is in the
coverage. In 1982, Time devoted
12 pages (including a cover photo
of Ariel Sharon) to the
Phalangist-perpetrated Sabra
and Shatila massacre. Most of
that space was given to descrip-
tions of the killings and to Is-
rael's reaction to them.
week, that same week, put a News-
deitd
dove on its cover — lacerated by
the Star of David. Its 17 pages of
coverage focused heavily on Is-
rael's alleged responsibility for
the massacre perpetrated by its
Christian 'allies. It even devoted
two pages to "The Anguish of
American Jews."
There are those who would
argue that no comparison can be
made between the massacres of
1982 and of today. They would
claim that the Phalangist mas-
sacre was of women and children
while last week's killings can be
put in the context of traditional
warfare. However, the facts tell
another story. Less than 10 per-
cent of the victims in 1982 were
women and children. Then, as
now, most of the victims were
men of military age. Then, as
now, some were lined up and shot
while others died fighting. The
Sabra and Shatila massacre of
1982 was no singular experience
for Lebanon. It, like the killings
today, were part of a decade long
civil war — a civil war in which
massacres are common occur-
rences. Even Yassir Arafat com-
pares the killings occurring now
to those of 1982.
Why then is there such a dis-
parity in press coverage? The an-
swer is simple — and deeply dis-
turbing. The Sabra and Shatila
massacre of 1982 was the biggest
news story of that year because
there was an Israel angle to it.
The Phalangists were allied with
Israel and the Israeli army was
stationed outside the camps. That
indirect connection to Israel
made the. 1982 massacre the
story it was. Today's killings, on
the other hand; have no connec-
tion Whatsoever with Israel. They
cannot be used — or misused —
in an effort to discredit Israel.
Accordingly, the media is just
plain not interested. The slaugh-
ter, however, goes on.
Near East Report
Statement
Creates Furor
Jerusalem (JTA) — Rapidly
escalating religious-secular ten-
sions in Israel which have
politicians and sociologists wor-
ried were further inflamed this
week when an Orthodox Cabinet
Minister claimed the deaths of
19 Petach Tikva school children
in a train-bus collision last
month was an act of divine re-
tribution for Sabbath desecra-
tions in Petach Tikva.
The remark, by Interior
Minister Yitzhak Peretz of the
Shas Party, brought immediate
demands for his ouster from the
bereaved parents. It has been
denounced not only by political
figures of left and right but by
many rabbis and religious
scholars.
UJA Funds
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
United Jewish Appeal/
Federation Campaign for 1985
has raised $548.1 Million, a card
for card increase of 12. percent
over Campaign 1984 and a dol-
lar gai of $69.8 million accord-
ing to Atex Grass, the UJA's na-
tional chairman.
Grass said the campaign pace
is $40 million ahead of last
year. Currently, the campaign is
78 percent completed.