According to msnbc.com, "An ax-wielding Palestinian militant entered a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Thursday and went on a rampage, killing an Israeli teenager and wounding a young boy before fleeing the area. Authorities said a manhunt was under way for the assailant, who was believed to have been wounded by security guards...On Wednesday, Netanyahu's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said Israeli concessions to the Palestinians would only bring more war. He also rejected the previous government's peace talks, launched at a U.S.-sponsored conference in 2007."
The story, written by the AP, suggests that Netanyahu and the Israeli government are not working hard enough to achieve peace with the Palestinian nation's government. However, these kind of issues within the Arab-Israeli conflict are not so black and white. Recently in the press, there has been harsher criticism of Israel and its government. Meanwhile, terrorism and fear is still high amongst Israeli Jews. How did this story about a poor boy being axed to death turn into a criticism of Netanyahu anyways? Israelis live each day in fear, as the Palestinians also do, but if one side backs down to the other too soon, it could be the end of each nation as we know it. Both sides have the resources to blow the other to smitherines.
While I agree there should be peace between each other, the media makes it seem much simpler than it actually is. There is truly no right answer to how this conflict should be solved. If there was, the Arab-Israeli conflict would be ancient history. Hopefully, Obama's new agenda of global diplomacy will include peace talks with both sides, creating a safer atmosphere within the borders of Israel.
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It is funny that you mention that the media makes a simplification of the situation at hand. I agree with you here in that sometimes the media makes it seem like the resolution is in grasp if we just would deal with it already.
ReplyDeleteWell, I am curious if another source of this story would have a different opinion on the situation. Just as we have mentioned many times in class about different sources projecting different attitudes about given situations. Is it really as black and white as they are making it sound and we are naively believing it is much more complicated. Or is the media just warping our attitudes towards certain global issues to criticize the government? I am not sure.