The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) complains bitterly about Bill Moyer's egregious distortion of the Israel-Hamas reality.
Bill Moyers, long a prominent figure with the Public Broadcasting Service, has crossed a journalist and ethical line. In a commentary broadcast on January 9, 2009, he not only presented several highly distorted statements about the crisis in Gaza, but also depicted Israeli violence as a consequence of "genetic encoding." In particular, Moyers falsely accused Israel of indiscriminately killing Palestinians in the recent round of fighting in the Gaza Strip and portrayed Israel's military actions in Gaza as the equivalent of America's use of napalm on villages during the Vietnam War.
. . He claimed the dead in Gaza were the "casualties and victims of Israel's decision to silence the rockets from Hamas terrorists by waging war on the entire population." [Emphasis added.] He also stated that "By killing indiscriminately the elderly, kids, entire families by destroying schools and hospitals Israel did exactly what terrorists do and exactly what Hamas wanted. It spilled the blood that turns the wheel of retribution."
Such assertions are outrageous. Israel has not "waged war on the entire population" of the Gaza Strip of 1.5 million people; it has waged war on Hamas and its terrorist infrastructure. (more . . .)