Big Lies About Gaza Travel Fast
The Truth Trails Slowly Behind

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
January 15, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/406/big-lies-about-gaza

Excerpt:

Yesterday, I wrote about two letters, each written by American medical students; both addressed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The first letter, which accused only Israel of various crimes and failures, was published in The Lancet on January 12, 2009. The second letter, which alleged that the terrorist organization, Hamas, has itself committed the most heinous crimes against its own people, is about to be published in The Lancet as well. It, too, has rapidly been gaining medical student signatures.

Today, in Florida's St Petersburg Times, I read an Associated Press piece. It is their major "World and Nation" story. It cites the medical student Letter as an article by physicians in The Lancet and repeats their statistics which focus on the number of women and children dead and wounded in Gaza.

I wonder whether AP will do a follow-up story which cites the second Lancet letter and whether that will have the same psychological "punch."

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