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Michael Miner’s recent column on “The Tribe Takes on the Trib” [Hot Type, November 16] was probably educational for some people about how Jewish Zionist organizations work to suppress expression in the media of anything other than knee-jerk support for Israel (as in the Sun-Times, owned by the same company which controls the Jerusalem Post). It’s not enough for these organizations that media such as the Tribune are pro-Israel in their spin 85 percent of the time–any analysis beyond the most superficial is dangerous to those who seek to maintain the Alice in Wonderland worldview of American Zionism. Beyond comparisons of how many headlines and stories depict the cruelty of the Israeli military occupation as opposed to the acts and words of Palestinian suicide bombers, what all this coverage lacks (as usual) is a comprehensive telling of what led to this state of affairs.
David L. Williams
