Ted Rall for July 21, 2014

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You know how the media tells it: The Israelis and Palestinians are fighting each other. Same old, same old. (Man 1: Middle easterners can't never get along!) (Man 2: Why won't they live in peace? Like us!?) Talk about false equivalence: Israel kills Palestinians using advanced U.S. supplied laser-guided munitions. It's high-tech Iron drone anti-middili defense system intercepts most Hamas rockets from Gaza. (Man 3: Just for giggles, let's take out some Hamas official guys houses,) Hamas has lousy targeting technology, so most of the rockets it fires into Israeli trade blockade, Gaza's economy is in ruins. (Man 4: We'd ask the U.N. for help, but we'r not even a country.) The real equation is: Palestinians do the dying and Israelis do the killing. But you won't see that on the news. (Woman: Cuz: body mass one Palestinian weighs 1/200th as much as an Israeli.) (Man: You mean soul mass)