Palestine Pete: Peter Jennings and the Palestinians 

(Media Research Center, May 2) Peter Jennings has demonstrated a pro-Palestinian bias in Middle East coverage for years.  How many years? The award-winning HBO documentary One Day in September focused on the murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympics. The documentary included on-scene reports from Jennings, then an ABC correspondent. According to Tom Shales, The Washington Post's television critic, Jennings never used the word "terrorist" in any of the clips in September, referring to the Palestinian gunmen as guerillas, and on one occasion, commandos.

Little has changed since 1972. Jennings still displays more sympathy for the Palestinian cause than Israeli security and shows a penchant for ignoring unpleasant facts, click the link above to see for yourself.

Palestine Pete UPDATE: The Jenin massacre charge didn’t pan out, so let’s claim Israel committed “war crimes.”  On Thursday’s (5/2) World News Tonight, ABC’s Peter Jennings found the new “war crimes” spin newsworthy:  “One item today about the Jenin refugee camp to which Mr. Arafat referred: The international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, said today the evidence suggests that the Israeli Army committed war crimes in the military operation there, but the group, which has been studying in the camp for several days, found no evidence to support claims that the army massacred hundreds of Palestinians.”

Palestine Pete UPDATE: “Today in Ramallah the Israelis arrested a Palestinian who’s been central to the Palestinian uprising against the occupation. His name is Marwan Barghouti. He was in favor of the peace process until, as he told an Israeli newspaper, the Israelis didn’t withdraw from the territories and went on building Jewish settlements.”
– Peter Jennings on ABC’s World News Tonight, April 15. Israel believes Barghouti directed terrorist attacks which have killed at least 14 civilians in the past year.

 Now that’s damning with faint praise. Courtesy of Media Research Center