Sent in response to the Oct 7 homepage.
Dear Winnipeg Free Press
Your homepage above the fold right now is sadly one-sided.
Now I suppose Russians may say the same thing about the FreeP's coverage of the war in Ukraine; but you've sided against the oppressor in that conflict, while you've sided with the genociders in Gaza, contrary to international law.
Of course the Jewish community is entitled to feel relief and joy that the Israelis taken hostage on 7 October 2023 have been released. They may also feel rage and despair that those hostages weren't released on 9 or 10 October 2023 when there was already a hostage deal on the negotiating table.
But to spill an entire article of ink on Jewish grief for the ~1500 (rounded up) with nary a word of Palestinian grief for the 67,000 (likely an undercount by a factor of 10) is unbalanced.
To only mention the “relatively good shape” of Israeli hostages without mentioning the shockingly poor physical condition of the tiny fraction of 11,000 Palestinian hostages released from illegal “administrative detention” is neither fair nor rigorous.
To not even get a single quote from a member of Winnipeg's Palestinian community is blatantly biased.
The lack of concern for Palestinian lives is astonishingly callous. The relentless bombing they have endured is “unimaginable.” The manufactured famine is “serious and solemn.”
It is indeed “paramount that the Canadian government supports a principled approach” in the aftermath of the ceasefire: one that requires a thorough investigation of reckoning for all the war crimes committed.
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