Period of Calm

Here's what a period of calm is in Palestine according to the US press:

from "(January 15, the day the new Palestinian president assumed office, to February 25), no less than 31 Palestinian civilians, among them 11 children, had been killed by the Israeli army; that hundreds more Palestinians had been wounded; that the construction of a wall that tore into Palestinian land continued unabated; that the shelling of Palestinian areas by the Israeli army was still taking place just as it did before 'the truce'; that the houses of Palestinian civilians were still being demolished by the Israeli army just as they did before the period of quiet had set in; that land belonging to Palestinians had been officially confiscated right after 'the truce' was announced; and so on and so forth."

The "truce" was then shattered with an attack on civilians in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian suicide bomber. The reaction in the US press. Front page outrage in all the major papers and lead stories on all the networks, cable and network. What should we conclude?

"(1) The press of the United States had engaged in a deliberate, coordinated, and massive campaign of lies and distortions, or (2) The press of the United States, as a matter of common course, simply did not assign 'calm' and 'truce' the same meaning one would usually assign to a situation where two sides are enjoying such a 'calm' and are engaged in such a 'truce'."

Check out this article by Ahmed Bouzid on this issue.