Always the Jews

It's very easy to find negative stories on Israel. All you have to do is a Google search and you'll drown in 'em. Unfortunately, most of the places that have these stories are left-leaning enterprises that clearly don't like Israel to begin with. That, or they're Arab sites such as Al Jezeera. Again, not necessarily fair or reliable....................................................................................The latest of these stories to go "viral" is the one that "informs" us of how the Israelis are booting Palestinians out of their homes in East Jerusalem....and of how, too, the Israelis are building settlements there. I mean, yes, it sounds terrible. But, again, I would really like to get a more reliable/less biased source to examine/confirm/debate these stories.................................................................................And, yes, folks, I say this precisely because of my previous experiences with such biased reporting. Take, for example, that supposed massacre at Jenin. According to the Palestinian propagandists (the source for a lot of these anti-Israel stories/diatribes), the Israeli army brutally mowed down some 500 Palestinian civilians (killed these folks in cold-blood, supposedly). And, yep, you got it, terms like genocide and holocaust were cavalierly tossed around as well. Now, granted, we eventually did learn the real truth about Jenin - namely, that only 52 Palestinians (the majority of which were found to be terrorist fighters) were actually killed. But the public-relations damage had already been inflicted (coupled with the fact that a lot of regular Palestinians never learned this truth)........................................................................................As for this particular story about East Jerusalem, I would at least like to know 1) the extent of these evictions (this, in that, yes, folks, terms like ethnic cleansing are already being bandied about) and 2) if in fact there were any terrorists being harbored in these dwellings. This, for a little bit of perspective, I'm saying. And, yes, folks, I'm frigging saying all of this as a person who strongly OPPOSES Israel's settlement policy.....................................................................................P.S. You know what else would be nice? It would be nice if, on occasion, all of these bloggers/academics who constantly hammer Israel for its "mistreatment" of the Palestinians, would do the same to China for its treatment of the Tibetans, Turkey for its treatment of the Kurds and Armenians, Russia for its treatment of the Chechnyans, Spain for its treatment of the Basques, and, yes, YES, Palestinian terrorists treatment of the Jews (nails soaked in rat poison, stuffed into bombs). It would be extremely nice in fact.