Beyond moral equivalence

and on to open advocacy.

From The Washington Post:

TYRE, Lebanon, July 23 -- The day ended in Tyre as it began, with a desperate cry of grief.

"Where's my father? Where's my father?" asked Mahmoud Srour, an 8-year-old whose face was burned beyond recognition after an Israeli missile struck the family's car Sunday. His mother, Nouhad, lurched toward his hospital bed, her eyes welling with tears.

"Is he coming?" he asked her.

"Don't worry about your father," she said, her words broken by
sobs.

Barely conscious, bewildered, he lay with his eyes almost swollen shut. His head lolled toward her. A whisper followed.

"Don't cry, mother," he told her.

Mahmoud's father, Mohammed, was dead. An Israeli missile had struck their green Mercedes as they fled the southern town of Mansuri, where the family
had been vacationing. . .

Question: Do you think that there are any Jewish children who have been injured, any Jewish families who have suffered terrible loss from the Hezbollah attacks upon Israel? Beyond that do you think that there are any Israeli families grieving losses suffered during any of the countless terrorist attacks that nation has suffered in past years?

I imagine there are. So why don’t we read about them in The Post and other major daily papers? Why don’t we see them profiled on the network news or CNN? Why are casualty figures from Israel discussed in impersonal terms while reporters move heaven and earth to find tear-jerkers to report on among Israel’s enemies?

It’s too bad for the WWII era Japanese that there were no leftist reporters in their cities when the US Army Air Corps was sending hundreds of B-29s over their largely wood and paper cities by night to drop napalm.

Just think of the world pictures an intrepid (if morally challenged) reporter could have painted about young mothers with babies strapped to their backs running down the debris clogged street not realizing that their beloved infants were on fire, blazing like torches.

Of course reporters in WWII would not have done such a thing. They understood that there was a war on and that Japan was suffering the consequences of starting it. There is a war on in Lebanon and the Lebanese are suffering the consequences of their toleration of the presence of Hezbollah.

Come to think of it the mainstream media knows which side they’re on just like Ernie Pyle did; it just isn’t the same side.