Dear editor

Dear editor

I am writing in response to your coverage of news in the media. As an Arab-American who has lived in the West Bank during the second intifada, I have seen and experienced much. After moving to the states, I learned that the American people are very much unaware of the horrible acts taken upon Palestinian people everyday by the Israeli government. This is because of news channels that are “biased and uninformative”.

Some of the most popular news channels such as CNN, FOX, BBC, and SKY NEWS are extremely biased when it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Often, I’d turn on the news and hear about an Israeli soldier who had been killed by Palestinians. They would give his full name, talk of his accomplishments, tell of his dreams and say he died doing his job; forgetting to mention that his job included killing innocent civilians, blocking roads that didn’t belong to his government, and demolishing Palestinian people’s homes built on their own lands. Important information is left out which changes the whole story and its meaning leaving people with the wrong idea.

I find it very hard to trust the news nowadays. I mean if people in the states know nothing of the large numbers of innocent civilians being killed, the number of homes being demolished, and the kind of humiliation the Palestinian people have been enduring for so long, then I must say, there is something seriously wrong. When the news chooses sides, or doesn’t give full information then that can lead to great misunderstanding. If people aren’t aware of wrong in the world then how can they make it a right?

In conclusion, if the news continues to carry on with false and biased information then this can and probably will lead to ignorance, non tolerance, and extremism. The news will become a fuel of hatred to many. Furthermore, people will continue to suffer, and however loud their cries are for help, the world will never be able to hear them and help them because their news will not let them know the truth.