I agree. In my country the press should be more objective, and explain that this terrible war/endless conflict has two sides. Both with blood on their hands.

Mr. Writer You know how coverup something smells So ugly, looks So ugly, feels So ugly for everyone, and to convence poeple like Ynet news and other to present something not So ugly, but ugly enough. I don't know if you got paid for the non-sence that you wrote. If you were my employee, I would have put a restraining order against you preventing you from writing for the rest of your life. Stop making us look stupid by stopping writing. For the good of you and the jewish people, please stop writing and posting such "NOT SO TERRIBLE things"

every country's hands are drenched with blood - perhaps none are soaked more thoroughly than the european nations who plundered and pillaged the rest of the world and then destroyed six million jews on their own soil

The plural of anecdote is not "data." Those are two isolated instances. I've spent the past several years monitoring the media bias in the American and world press, which contributes greatly to the bad image of Israel. The AP, Reuters, and AFP are all hugely biased against Israel. They are the source of the bias, not the editors who use their stories without change or comment. Nice try, but I'll start believing that Israel's image isn't so bad when the AP starts naming the victims of terror attacks in every article--as they name the palestinian terrorists who are killed by the IDF in ever article. You want proof? http://www.yourish.com/ As I said, I've been tracking the anti-Israel bias for years. So has HonestReporting.com. Try reading some of their reports, then come back and tell me how Israel's image is not so bad.

Mr. Schwartz, For a people who has suffered so much as the Jews, it is amazing that they do not know, want to know, or know and don't care about what Israel is doing and has done to the Palestinians, whose only fault is the same as that of the Native Americans, namely, to live on soil that the Zionists wanted for their own, minus Palestinians. When, some day, the truth will out (as it must), even Jews will be ashamed! You should care about what Jews do, not about how to sell a false image.

Oh I understand now; to be Jewish in the US means you have to support Israel's apartheid; not only just Darwin is out of fashion in America, 5000 years of Jewish wisdom and intellectual teaching are thrown out of the window in favour of the settler regime.

Some 79 percent of the Israelis in the poll said that the level of corruption in Israel has risen in the past three years, and 65 percent said the level rose by a lot. The findings place Israel in the dubious league of 13 countries in which at least 50 percent of the public believes that the level of corruption in their country has greatly risen.

What are you talking about? Jordan, i.e. Palestine, is worse than Apartheid. Jews are not allowed citizenship. In Israel Arabs are MKs and enjoy equal rights under law, maybe not always in practice, bnut alot better than ENgland with its second class citizens. England had suicide bombers who are native born. Israel has 20% Arab population and only a tiny fraction of those side with the terrorists because the vast majority appreciate the freedoms of Israeli's democracy. As for Judea and Samaria. Well, it wasnt occupied land when it was controlled by Jordan and it isnt now. It is the so called Palestinians who create secondclass citizens and the EU and UN that keeps them in camps instead of giving them jobs and education like Israel did. Your analogy is inaccurate. Arabs control about 85% of historic Palestine and trying to steal more land from Jews. It is the Arabs who have created the Apartheid and steal more land from ISrael.

Accessol if you are going to criticize Israel, please spare us your praise for everything Jewish pre 1948. It doesn't provide you with the moral cover you think it does. We jews see right through it.

The reasons middle America may call Israel not so terrible is they don't get the news. I spend over an hour a day getting news on Israel from all over the world (see my newsletter at http://aberdeenpublishing.com/newsletr.html) and Israel looks no better than Murder Incorporated or the Mafia. The brutality shown toward the Palestinians is horrible. The steady theft of their lands is equally horrible. Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and the others have every right to terrorize Israel for the terrorizing and theft of their property that Israel does every day. Any time you want me to write a LONG article on these issues, with LOTS OF references, I will be happy to write one.

You believe that Ithe land of israel belong without doubt to arabs, it is historicaly stupid (read Flavius Joseph...) but you believe in it and that's more important !!! Historically and juridically land belong to men who cultivate it (do america belong to indians ? Britain to barbarians saxons who have taken the land of these poors celts a long time ago ? Roman Laws said that a land belong to a man who have cultivated or inhabited it two years) Now you have five millions of jews in Israel, a lot of them are born in israel; they have build towns, industries... And you say NO NO all belong to palestinians because a long time ago they were here with their poors villages... Good... what do you do with jews who doesn't want to be slave of arabs? Do you organize some death camps ? Think with your brain not just with your (false) emotion...

Yes, the "middle America" supports Israel, despite terrible daily anti-Israeli bias in our press, and we do so because we have common sense and still continue to cling to our moral values. To ever increasing number of people, the MSM is becoming increasingly irrelevant, just like it became to me. Is it any surprise that that thieving and immoral cabal at the UN wants to control the internet?

come out of their black little holes. And they all sign their hate-dripping posts with unmistakably Jewish names. Amazing that there are so many self-loathing Jews. Amazing and quite pathetic.

There is more to the international community than the US, and there are still many that don't count Israel as their best friend. We're getting betting press now than we have for a while, but don't judge the whole picture without looking at the whole thing.

Either you're using a pseudonym, or you are one of the self-hating Jewish lefty false ingelligentsia who is trying to ingratiate himself with the very people who wish you dead. No one needs your references or long article, your essence is quite clear and it is noxious.

ALL READERS, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT SAY HERE IN THIS TALKBACK THAT MUCH LIKE THE "SILENT MAJORITY' IS REFERRED TO IN OUR OWN POLITICAL/SPIRITUAL ISSUES HERE IN THE UNITED STATES , THERE IS ALSO A SILENT MAJORITY OF US WHO KNOW THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE AND WE HAVE A GREAT SENSE OF LOYALTY TOWARD ISRAEL. ISRAEL MAY BE SMALLER THAN THE COUNTRIES SURROUNDING IT BUT NOT ANY CAN MAKE THE CLAIM OF BEING GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. AND I KNOW THAT ISRAEL CAN BE REALLY,REALLY SERIOUS IN AN INSTANT IF THE NEED ARISES.YOU HAVE MY/OUR SUPPORT, AFFECTION AND LOYALTY WITH YOU. SOME MAY DISAGREE AND I COULD BE WRONG BUT I'M NOT IN THIS MATTER. ISRAEL IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE JUST AS SPECIAL AS THE RICH CULTURE THAT THEY'VE GENERATED OVER THE CENTURIES .NOBODY LIKES A BULLY AND EXTREMIST ISLAM IS ONE AND ISRAEL , IN MY OPINION, EATS BULLIES FOR LUNCH!!! SINCERELY, MARK LYNN , USA

Don't insult the Native Americans by comapring them to the Arab terrorist land thieves. Jews are the indigenous people of Israel not the Arabs who originated in Arabia not Israel. Israel was re-named Palestine by the Romans and has nothing to do with the Arabs. Jews were the first to be called "Palestinians." Arabs adopted the name to steal the Jewish homeland. Neither Palestine nor Palestinians exist. Most Arabs immigrated to Israel after it was created. Stop reading hamass propaganda and learn the facts! http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/palestine.htm

As Eithan says, it's up to local jews to do the job for themselves. The Israeli foreign ministry can't be everywhere!

SINCE 9/11 AMERICANS HAVE COME TO KNOW THE WORLD OF TERROR AND TERRORISTS. THERE IS FEAR HERE OF FUTURE TERROR ATTACKS, BUT AMERICANS BELIEVE WE CAN DEFEAT THE ENEMY. AMERICA IS HATED BY THE ISLAMOFACISTS AS MUCH AS ISRAEL IS. WE ARE NOT STUPID IN THE U.S., IF WE LET THESE MONSTERS ATTACK ISRAEL, WE ARE ALSO A TARGET, AGAIN. AMERICA KNOWS THAT---AND THE PEOPLE HERE KNOW OUR SURVIVAL IS STRONGLY ALLIED WITH THE SURVIVAL OF ISRAEL.

I disagree with the author of this article. Israel’s image has indeed suffered. I believe that this is due to the following factors: · Inadequate explanations of Israel’s position and the problems she faces. · Media bias. · Brilliant propaganda, lies, and distortion of historical facts by the Arabs. · The fact that Palestinians are perceived as the underdog. · The nations of the world value Arab oil above truth and justice. · People are sick of hearing about the holocaust and therefore no longer have a sympathetic ear for Israel’s problems. · Anti-Semitism that is both overt and latent.

Tell me please when in history has there been a war where the loser of that war actually was able to claim land back from the victor of the war. Arabs lost the war and despite STARTNG THE WAR and having millions of miles of land - are able to claim land back from Israel. Its a traditional Christian/Moslem double standard whereby the Jew / Dhimmi is forced to submit to unfair, un-normal terms that the rest of the world never abides by. I know that none of the Israel bashers here can explain this.

what other choices were there. Look at your own country, what choices do you have -- bad and worse?

It aint pretty

It's the only country in the region which does not have the dishonourable murders known as "honour killings".

Shloma's analysis of the causes of the skewed and negative portrayal of Israel is insightful. Although, I think Eytan Schwartz's article shows that there are some reasonable people in the media that when presented with evidence of bias, will aim towards fairer coverage of Israel.

View aint pretty? It couldn't be unless there were no place left for Jews in the world...Didn't the UK kick the Jews who lived there out...saying go back to where you came from? Where was the place you meant for them to "go back to"? Now you're with those saying the Jews must "get out" of the homeland they were originally expelled from by the Romans, and then sent back to by those whose view "aint pretty".

In fact all the modern world is supporting the Israeli acts is Lebanon. Every democracy knows that the Muslim attacks can happen to it also, in the same way or in another way. All the modern world should join together to act against the terror, and help Israel in the current situation.