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There is stabbing and then there is stabbing
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/ I guess we shouldn’t complain about some of the headlines that put a stress on death of the offending party, relegating the fate of the victims to background. Such as this CNN headline:
Student fatally shot after stabbing 4 at UC Merced
After all, with the shortish attention span of the nowadays reading public, only the most drastic part of the headline will hold their attention for more than half a second. So the true description of the event, such as, for instance, “Student stabs four and is shot by police”, naturally loses in the unending battle for the reader’s attention.
Otherwise, the story, which in its main points similar to what is going on in Israel lately on daily basis, is unremarkable: a perp stabs several people, then chased and shot by police officers, doing their duty:
The suspect fled the building and was chased by two police officers, said UC Merced Police Chief Al Vasquez.
“When the suspect turned toward the officer, an officer-involved shooting occurred and the suspect succumbed to his injuries,” Vasquez said.
Unfortunately, events like this one happen everywhere.
Only – there is just one part of the world where such an event is followed up by:
- Celebration of the stabbings
- Denial of the fact that the police/army were doing exactly what they were supposed to do
- Denial of the fact that the stabber carried a stabbing implement at all
- Accusations that police/army planted the said implement at the scene to justify the killing
- Immediate support of all of the above by the (alleged) human rights organization
I wonder why. 
Source: http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2015/11/there-is-stabbing-and-then-there-is.html
