PMWATCH - April 4, 2002 -- A massive wave of support for Palestinian rights
and in opposition to the madness of the Israeli war machine is spreading around
the world like wildfire, from Brussels to Paris and Marseilles, from Rome to 
London and Berlin, to all the major cities in the United States, to the Arab and 
Muslim world, and beyond.  And yet, not one word of this in CNN, MSNBC, 
FoxNews, ABC, CBS, NBC, and NPR.


Why is that?

	ITALY
			Demonstrators flash victory signs as they march in downtown Rome on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2002, in support of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Placard in Italian reads: "Sharon assassin and slaughterer of the Palestinian people". (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis
	MOROCCO
			Moroccan supporters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are stopped by riot police officers near the U.S consulate in Casablanca, northern Morocco, Tuesday April 2, 2002 as they protest against what they claimed is American support of Israel. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)
	SYRIA
			Demonstrators carry a Palestinian flag and a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as they stage a sit-in in front of the U.N. offices in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday April 2, 2002 to call for the release of the confined Palestinian leader. (AP Photo/ Bassem Tellawi).
	GREECE
			Palestinians burn an Israeli flag and prepare to burn a US flag during a demonstration in Thessaloniki, Greece on Tuesday, April 2, 2002. Greeks and Palestinians who live in Greece marched to protest against the recent Israeli incursion and the isolation of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (AP Photo/Nikos Giakoumidis)
	EGYPT
			Cairo university students burn the Israeli flag during a fifth day of demonstrations April 2, 2002. Students clashed with riot police when they came out of campus to protest outside the university campus in Cairo against Israeli attacks on Palestinians. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby
	TURKEY
			Palestinian youths shout anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. slogans outside the Israeli embassy in Ankara, Turkey while holding a painting of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Tuesday April 2, 2002. Some 300 Palestinians and Turks demonstrated against the latest Israeli military incursions into Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
	LEBANON
			Demonstrators burn U.S. and Israeli flags in front of the Dar el-Fatwa during a street demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday April 2, 2002. About 500 people marched to the Dar el-Fatwa, the headquarters of Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Qabani, the highest Sunni Muslim religious authority, shouted anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans to show their support for Arafat. (AP Photo/str)
	JORDAN
			Protesters march in Amman, Jordan on Tuesday April 2, 2001. Thousands marched against the latest Israeli incursion into Palestinian territory and the isolation of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. (AP Photo/Jamal Nasrallah)
	BRAZIL
			A demonstrator holds up a portrait of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat during a protest in front of the Israeli embassy in Brasilia, April 2, 2002. Hundreds of pro-Arab demonstrators gathered in front of the embassy to show their support and solidarity for Arafat, the Palestinian cause and to criticize Israeli military actions in the Middle East. REUTERS/Gregg Newton
			Members of Brazil's radical Landless Movement (MST) burn U.S. and Israeli flags in front of the U.S. embassy in Brasilia, April 3, 2002. Some 150 members of the MST gathered in front of the embassy to show their solidarity for the Palestinian cause and to criticize U.S. support of Israel. Four days earlier, MST activist Mario Lill met with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat at his besieged headquarters and presented him with their trademark red flag. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar
	CYPRUS
			A woman holding a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shouts anti-Israeli slogans outside the Israeli Embassy in Nicosia to protest Israeli policy towards Palestinians Wednesday, April 3, 2002. (AP Photo/Philip Mark)
	BELGIUM
			A young man raises his fist next to a placard denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as Adolf Hitler during a rally organized by the Arab European League in Antwerp April 3, 2002. About five hundred people at the rally demanded an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinians towns and cities. REUTERS/Yves Herman
	CHILE
			Palestinian student Elisa Abedrapo and members of the Palestinian community in Chile hold posters with the portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstration in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. The poster reads "Chile is in Solidarity with the Palestinian People," and "For Life and Peace in Palestine." (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin)
	ISRAEL
			A banner calling for an end to the bloodshed is seen as more than 2,000 Israeli activists, Jews and Arabs, try to pass A-Ram chekpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. The demonstrators were trying to deliver humanitarian supplies to the besieged West Bank town of Ramallah and were also calling for an end to the bloodshed. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
	PAKISTAN
			Members of Pakistan's political party Tehrik-e-Insaf burn an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in front of the United Nations office in Islamabad during a rally Wednesday, April 3, 2002. Protesters denounced Israeli incursions into Palestinian territories and the siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters. (AP Photo/Tariq Aziz)
	BANGLADESH
			Two government ministers, Abdullah al-Noman (C with raised hand) and Sadek Hossain Khoka (L), lead a protest organized by the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the capital Dhaka April 3, 2002, against Israeli aggression against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his administration. The protesters called for an immediate end to the aggression and a return to peace talks. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman
	INDIA
			An Indian Muslim chants religious verses as others hold placards denouncing Israel and the U.S. support for Israel during an anti-Israel demonstration in Bombay April 3, 2002. Muslims in Bombay protested against Israel's attacks on the Ramallah headquarter's of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and other Israeli occupations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Arko Datta
	IRAN
			Iranian reformist parliamentarian Ali Akbar Mohtashemipour (C) joins demonstrators outside the United Nations office in Tehran April 3, 2002. Over 100 demonstrators gathered in heavy rain to protest Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. REUTERS/Raheb
	INDONESIA
			Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in front of the United Nations office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 3, 2002. The government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has sharply condemned Israel's attacks on the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and other military incursions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Acronym "Kammi" on poster means "Action Groups of Indonesian Muslim Students." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

	Anyone who is lucky enough to watch the BBC, Al-Jazeera, or even the Canadian
	CBC, or any other non-US media outlet, can only be struck by the stark
	contrast between how the US media is presenting the conflict and how the
	rest of the world media is presenting it.  Why the gap, and why censorship?  
	Why not tell the Americans that the version of reality that their government 
	is presenting is sharply at odds with that of the rest of the world?  

	Please press the US media to cover the massive international support for
	the Palestinians and their sharp opposition to Israeli aggression.

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		http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/mediatimidity.asp		
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