(BLOG) Little Has Changed Since 2001

"I recently rediscovered the following, an Editorial in 'The Times', dated 15th March 2001, and I reproduce it below in its entirety. The quality of the writing and its honesty seem to me to have come from a bygone age of reportage, one in which intelligent journalists wrote without hyperbole or bias and in thought-provoking ways about issues which concerned us all.

Most saddening, as I reread it and reproduced it here, is the realisation that little has changed for the Palestinian people whose leadership still uses them and gets them killed to make political points, that indeed much has worsened, but that very few journalists have the moral courage any longer to tell us the truth about why that is. Nowadays Ashrawi’s 'crude forgery' below would not be questioned, but promulgated across the media and the internet as an honest account of what was 'really happening.' And Palestinian children, always vulnerable, are even more brutalised and deliberately brainwashed by Palestinian leaders:"