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Shvoong Home>Law & Politics>International Law>Palestine: Channel 4 Summary

Palestine: Channel 4

Article Summary   by:SM THOMPSON    
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How many times do we turn away from the horror of war as authors write about it or War Correspondents update us on a daily basis on what goes on in the frontline of war.

Last night I received a blog from Channel 4 via the Israeli Yahoo alerts and it showed the
devasting situation on the West Bank of the Occupied territory and the plight of the Palestinian
children caught up in the Middle East conflict.

In order to describe this war it is necessary to write down a few key phrases such as follows:

The Palestinian Child
The U:N:
The West Bank:
Israel
Palestine
Israeli settlers
Stone throwers

and there it is in front of your eyes the vocabulary of War which creates a vivid and a real
non imaginary image of war. Sometimes the story is too horrific to repeat and last night's
blog from Channel 4 was a case in point.

The reason it was too disturbing to quote was that there is an element of brutality involved
and the beatings and jailings of the Palestinian children are a frontline feature of this blog
from Channel 4.

It is all leading up to the Terrorist war that is contained within this vocabulary of war and the pictures of boys about 16 or under who are being punished for stone throwing and are being sent to jail.

Because the U:N: regards them as children there is a necessary conflict here as they should not be
treated as adults and therefore their crimes so to speak should be regarded as the crimes or
misdemeanours of children.

The whole episode featured a commentary with a positive bias towards the Palestinian Child and
there was every attempt to blame the Israeli captors who it seems were the enemy of these
Palestinian children - however it is often somewhat muted that is the narrative that flows as it shifted from
one sympathic approach to another and the notion of balance definitely swayed in favour of the Palestinian children. Hard work pays UP!
Published: June 27, 2012   
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