By Gidon BenZvi
If you missed the news about the Israeli Air force's alleged bombing of an arms convoy belonging to Hezb’allah and a Syrian Army site in Damascus, you're not alone. There is a glaring lack of media coverage dedicated to Israel's ongoing campaign against the terrorist group. In comparison, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter's calling on the Obama administration to recognize the state of Palestine generated an avalanche of headlines, commentary, tweets, and social media posts.
Why the discrepancy?
The lack of newsworthiness is due in part to a national consensus in Israel that the only way to prevent Hezb’allah from firing rockets into civilian areas inside the country is if IAF warplanes periodically conduct airstrikes in Syria or Lebanon.
Far from being lambasted as right-wing war-mongering, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated vows to prevent Hezb’allah from obtaining “game-changing” arms – specifically, advanced anti-aircraft systems of chemical weapons – elicit little more than a collective yawn. Yet it’s the construction of a few dozen housing units over the Green Line, not the potentially global ramifications of Israel’s attacks on Hezb’allah, that provokes a hysterical reaction from the media......Read more
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