What Is The TRUTH Behind This Photograph?
The above misleading photo and inaccurate caption illustrates only a small fraction of the frightening reality of how much of the world media is distorting Israel's image.
Please write, speakout and pass this page today onto your local newspaper and television editors, your family and friends......Put the international media on high notice that slander, libel and yellow journalism will not be tolerated!
How could it be that a month ago (September 2000) Israel is lauded at Camp David for being willing to compromise way beyond anyone's expectations and today in response to riots and Palestinian gunfire be considered the aggressors? Israeli soldiers defending themselves against live fire, rocks and Molotov cocktails being thrown at them by demonstrators who use their women and children as "human shields".
Write to the editors in your area today demanding Fair, Objective, Balanced and ACCURATE reporting from the Middle East!
Subject: To the Editor
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:15:07 -0500 From: aaronnoach
Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while travelling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob.
Aaron Grossman, M.D. 6737 N Richmond Chicago, IL 60645 (773) 743-1194
Subject: (no subject) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:54:39 EDT From: Heshygiss@aol.com To: letters@nytimes.com CC: aaronnoach@21stcentury.net, JPeditor@aol.com
Dear Editor,
Even the typically biased and slanted NY Times middle east reporting has hit a new low. Since the Times wishes to convey the belief that the Palestinians are all innocent lambs being tormented by an aggressive oppressor, it can not even conceive that the wounded and injured are NOT Palestinians. The current case in point is very personal to me. In the Saturday's Times on page A6, the picture of the "wounded Palestinian" is, in fact, my nephew, Tuvia Grossman, an AMERICAN Jewish student learning in Israel. His only crime was being Jewish. He was not in "crossfire" but merely the target of Palestinian lambs who stoned his cab, dragged him from the vehicle, smashed his head with stones and stabbed him in the leg. The Israeli soldier, whom you obviously wished to portray as victimizing the poor, wounded Palestinian was actually saving my nephew's life. A casual look at the background of the picture can tell anyone that it's not the Temple Mount at all!
I believe that a retraction, in a prominent position in the paper, is necessary and an apology to the parents, forthcoming.
Howard Gissinger 2809 Avenue S Brooklyn, New York 11229 718-998-2909