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For AP, Hizbullah Terrorists Are the Sympathetic Victims
(The Hill) Becket Adams - AP published a report last week titled, "Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hizbullah struggle to recover." Israel targeted Hizbullah terrorists and their officers - booby-trapping and detonating the pager devices they rely on for secure communications. The devices were designed to wound rather than kill, in order to create maximum disruption among Hizbullah's leadership at a moment when it was already firing rocket barrages into Israel. By any reasonable measure, the pager operation shows concern for the civilian population where Hizbullah embeds its soldiers. Yet here is the AP with a report, complete with original photos, portraying Israel as having a reckless disregard for civilian life. In a story about terrorists who have waged a decades-long war against Israel, it is the terrorists and their associates who receive sympathetic treatment, almost as if they were heroes. The writer is program director for the National Journalism Center in Washington.