Monday, June 23, 2008

Howdata Can Be Manipulated To Aid Interpretation

assault a fan of brass knuckles

course, the assault of a young man in central Paris is dramatic. Of course, if the attack is anti-Semitic or racist, it is even more outrageous.

In contrast, the media circus that is taking place within hours of opening on the TV news business for 24 hours, crisis intervention policies ... all this causes some discomfort.

For example, it takes a little digging to find this AFP reproduced on the Libération website:
The young Jew, violently attacked Saturday in the Buttes-Chaumont, Paris (XIX) had been arrested "after incidents of sectarian" with another group of youths of North African origin, 9 December 2007. The brawl took place on the sidelines of an event at Bercy in Paris, for Hanukkah, the Jewish celebration of year end.
The teenager had been placed in custody with three friends. He and his comrades had been found carrying brass knuckles and "other weapons of defense." They were not detained.

Legal proceedings had been opened for these facts is "ongoing," said the source.
Furthermore, the source said, General Information (RG) reported in notes and reports of "several sharp tensions and incidents of community, since 2006, particularly in Buttes-Chaumont, where the young man was beaten to blows with an iron bar .
That is not necessarily as media-catching as the assertion that the victim "was attacked because he wore a yarmulke ... ". This mention of "several sharp tensions and incidents of community" also appears in an interview Lubavitch Rabbi Mendel Samara :
week, everything goes well. However, on weekends, during the Sabbath, the Buttes-Chaumont, and especially the park becomes quite difficult. The eyes of different gangs intersect. This permanent tension makes possible slippage. Especially since there is animosity caused by frustration, misunderstandings and lack of dialogue in this area. According to Le Figaro
:
Speaking through its president, Raphael Haddad, UEJF is "very concerned" by fighting repeatedly in recent weeks between gangs, including the Parc des Buttes Chaumont.
gangs? A Jewish youth already arrested with brass knuckles, beaten near the Buttes Chaumont Saturday evening, a local rabbi stating that during the Sabbath, in the district, organized gangs distrust?

must read the policy statements for 24 hours, you should see the media emotion, observe these "special envoys" of newspapers TVs at the bedside of the young lover of brass knuckles (literally: they are mailed before the hospital and we infoment, hour by hour, his condition). You must see this and compare: with the almost total blackout of the possibility of consequences confrontation between a band organized Jewish (like Betar, JDL ...) and other gangs (even indirect consequence: if a small group or type Betar JDL rampant in the neighborhood, unfortunately, every Jew becomes a target for nerds d 'in front), or with the lack of response (or media circus) follows other attacks in Paris (the two-tier media outrage is certainly an aggravating factor at this kind of tension, each dreaming in "Defense League" Community are involved).

[Added 23 hours Monday night] Posted by a forum participant, this AFP :
The owner of a bar-tabac near the scene of the attack spoke Monday on RTL a "settling of accounts between small bands" rather than an antisemitic attack. "At around 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., there is a group of young Jews who arrived, they were about twenty that are directed towards the square at street level and that Small went directly assaulting the young and then later he followed was a rather violent altercation, "said the man, who did not give his name but said he was a direct witness of the scene.

"There were streams of objects, I was there going down my shutters for fear that my window was damaged, they are all saved, presumably they would have left one of their friends on shore, "he added.
Published at about the same time (22 hours) a note from Reuters suggests that the media frenzy is turning around, "Uncertainties after the assault of a young Jew in Paris .

[Added Tuesday, 10h] Brief of Figaro : the "demonstration for Chanukah" is not exactly a religious celebration:
On December 9, Rudy had participated in a demonstration in the Parc de Bercy in Paris in support of three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah. After the rally, he was arrested for "armed assault by destination" and placed in custody. It would be subject to judicial review.
Breaking the gook after a demonstration against Hezbollah, it is not exactly my idea of the festival, but ... Le Figaro said:
According to informed sources, it is close to the Jewish Defense League as Betar, what these movements to defend themselves.

Friday, June 13, 2008

How To Clear Toddler Nose

Even stories of Arabs

Even stories of Arabs who, apparently, not interested French media.

- The Israeli democracy and colleagues
The Israeli Ofer court martial sentenced the correspondent of the Aqsa TV satellite channel, Al-Mohammed Ezzat Halayka, a sentence of one year in prison, accusing work for a television channel "enemy." The court also sentenced Halayka, 25, who comes from the town of Al-Khalil in the West Bank was fined $ 1,200.

Halayka was arrested by Israeli troops last December and accused of "working for a flat channel to Hamas." Journalist Palestinian had previously been arrested by security forces of the Palestinian Authority under the command of Mahmoud Abbas, and was humbled by the intelligence services of the Palestinian Authority before his arrest by the Israelis.
- calm prevailed in Morocco
Residents of a Moroccan city where the police used force to end a blockade that lasted for a week complained methods very violent and claim that protesters are always hidden in the surrounding hills.

The government denied the allegations of several witnesses that demonstrators were killed and dozens injured when police intervened to end the Saturday events in Sidi Ifni by youths protesting against poverty and unemployment.
- calm prevailed in Tunisia
Police fired into the crowd to disperse hundreds of youths protesting against unemployment and the cost of living in south-western Tunisia, leaving one dead and several injured , said government officials and the union Friday.
In One Reporters Without Borders : "100 photos by Bettina Rheims" (take out the card). Only The World devoted an article on "Social Unrest murderers Morocco and Tunisia," by Florence Beauge. Le Figaro merely pass an AFP dispatch on its website. At the same time, everything had to tell Liberation is " The Maghreb, a breeding ground for Al Qaeda choice .

Long live freedom of the press.