Who occupies the occupied territories? (Media Watch).The Glasgow University Media Group decided to research how much about the Middle East conflict students learned from watching TV. This is what they found. * On British TV news, Israelis spoke twice as much as Palestinians. * Three times as many headlines expressed the Israeli view as that of the Palestinians. * Only .48 percent of Middle East coverage dealt with the history of the conflict. Coincidentally co·in·ci·den·tal adj. 1. Occurring as or resulting from coincidence. 2. Happening or existing at the same time. co·in , in the Media Group's survey of 300 17-to-22-year-old Brits (of whom 82 percent learned about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
* 71 percent didn't know who was occupying the occupied territories This article is about occupied territory in general: for more specific discussion of the territories captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, see Israeli-occupied territories. Occupied territories ; 11 percent believed that the Palestinians were occupying the territories and were the "settlers." * 80 percent did not know where Palestinian refugees  The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. came from or how they had become refugees. * Only 30 percent believed that more Palestinians had died than Israelis (since September 2000, 559 Israelis and 1,626 Palestinians have been killed). Source: Glasgow University Media Group, Miftah, Israeli Defense Forces Noun 1. Israeli Defense Force - the ground and air and naval forces of Israel IDF military force, military group, military unit, force - a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" |
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