Mainstream US Media Framing Israel's Attacks on Palestinians as Retaliation

When Israel attacked Palestinian targets following the discovery that three kidnapped Israeli teenagers had been murdered, the way TV outlets characterized the Israel actions on their July 1 newscasts was instructive. ABC World News and NBC Nightly News adopted the same language: Framing Israel’s actions as a form of retaliation is problematic, since the airstrikes, arrests and house raids are directed at people who had nothing to do with the murders. Israel has named two suspects in the crime, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha. As the New York Times (7/1/14) and other outlets have reported, these two West Bank residents may not have a significant connection with Hamas, despite the official Israeli insistence that the Hamas government in Gaza should be held responsible for the killings.

VIDEO: Anonymous brings down Interpol website in retaliation for 25 arrests

[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/anonymous-website-arrests-hacker-461/i7ecf3579721763d9fb04a22039d72ff8_tesa-anonymous.flv] Interpol’s main website has been downed by the Anonymous hacker group in retaliation for the international police agency’s hacker arrests worldwide. And such attacks will continue, the hacktivists promise. The website Interpol.int was unreachable…