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Tuesday, February 13, 1990 / University Dally Kansan
TV denigrates Israel, speaker says Journalist cites news media as weapons in Mideast war
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Enemies of Israel have declared war on the country and are using the media as their weapon, an Israeli journalist said last night at the Kansas Union.
Emmanuel Halperin, senior editor of Israeli Television, Foreign News and Jewish Affairs, said that because of the visual nature of television news, footage of violence commanded more viewers than news of why the violence happened.
Emmanuel Halperin speaks about media coverage of Israel.
Knowing this, Halperin said, Palestinians are able to use the conflicts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to shape foreign opinions.
"The conflict is presented as the bad Israeli and the poor Palestinian," he said to an audience of 45 people. "And there is not much we can do to try and balance this new image."
He said the image had replaced the old image of Israel, which was one of strength and creativity.
"It was this picture of the Israeli pioneer working in his field," Halperin said. "A strong, beautiful man with a rifle on his shoulder."
"The rifle was there to say, 'We are here to defend ourselves.' But for some reason this picture has disappeared from media. It has
been replaced by the negative of this picture."
this picture.
He said that Israel's enemies had changed this image to one where the Israeli's gun was replaced with the image of an Israeli tank.
To explain the reasons for this change, Halperin told a parable of a rich old woman who returned to her hometown, where the people all expected to receive gifts from her.
"If you wanted to show the negative, you would show the destruction caused by this Israeli tank." Halerin said.
The woman said she would give her money away if the people killed her old love, a citizen of the community.
Though the people were moral, they used justice as an excuse to call for the man's death.
The countries of the world are like the citizens of the city, Halperin said. In the face of the riches of the Middle East, people are able to condemn the Israeli state although Jews have the right to be there.
After the speech, a Palestinian supporter responded to Halperin's comments.
"On the basis of academic research as well as the time I spent in Israel and Palestine, I think it is very inaccurate to imply
what the American media portrays is distortion," said Deborah J. Gerner, assistant professor of political science
Gerner agreed that the image of Israel outside the country was
"Irael's public image is very poor because Israel's policies in the occupied territories are very poor."
negative but said that the image was not totally without merit.
Youth group voices environmental worries
Bv Monica Mendoza
Elementary students want styrofoam ban
Special to the Kansan
It seems that Hillcrest Elementary School students are interested in more than the latest fashion trends.
Members of the group, Youth in Action, described the hazards of non-degradable products and the changes they would like to see hap-
Last night, a group of fifth and sixth grade students gave a presentation to the Lawrence School Board that they had designed for subjects used in their school cafeteria.
"We don't ask for rewards because our reward is a clean environment," said Sally Russell, fifth-grade student. "That is what means the most to us."
The group is an organization at Hillcrest that is involved in helping students learn about working for others. Group members have been spending time learning about the environmental hazards caused by styrofoam products.
"I think they will probably go for it because they know, it is for our health," said Joni Mullen, group vice president.
The group is optimistic about the school board accepting the ban of styrofoam products at Hillcrest.
Wendy Duran, group president, said they had been working on the project for about a year and a half.
The group was started by Hillcrest teacher Helen Tuley. She said that
the students had been learning about their environment for a long time and that they wanted to do something about the damage being done to it.
Tuley said the project was the first step to an even bigger one. The group is now working on food restaurants in Lawrence to use the use of stryfoam products as well.
Johnny Leuthold, KU graduate student, is who is working with the group, also made a short presentation to the school board. Leuthold, a member of Enviros, said he thought the students would have an impact on board.
"These school kids, they seem to be the most effective lobbyists I've ever seen in Lawrence," Leuthold said. "They have such straightforward answers, no one can really argue what they say."
Harriet Shaffer, school board member, said her biggest concern was that all 18 Lawrence elementary schools would ask for the ban of styrofoam. She said that would cost more than the district could afford.
"We don't have enough water to wash extra bowls, or the money that it would take to increase the labor." Shaffer said. "I estimate that an extra $200,000 a year will be needed in labor."
Michelle Silva, group member,
responded, "Well, I've thought of
that once, but then I said, would you
rather lose money or your life?"
U.S. agents secure area for summit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A massive security operation is being assembled to protect President Bush and three Latin leaders from danger during a daylong drug summit in violence-wracked Colombia.
A wide array of defenses, some obvious and some not, are expected to be in place when Bush spends about six hours Thursday with the presidents of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia at a heavily guarded naval base near the coastal resort city of Cartagena.
Colombian authorities say about 5,000 security agents will be deployed. Secret Service agents already are in place, and more will fly in with Bush.
U. S. warplanes may be used to escort Air Force One and Bush's helicopter. In addition, U.S. warships likely will be stationed in the Caribbean to provide support.
"It's a serious environment to deal with," said William A. Hawthorne who retired from the Secret Service in 2015.
"The fact that they're going tells me the Secret Service believes they can provide security in that environment.
I'm not particularly worried," Hawthorne said.
Eight years ago, when Bush was visiting Colombia as vice president, a cache of dynamite was found buried along the runway at Bogota international airport after his plane took off.
Brushing aside security concerns, Bush said he wanted to go to Colombia as an expression of support for its president, Virgilio Barco, who is waging war against the country's drug lords.
by one entrance." Bush said last week
"And I believe . . . that the security of the president can be protected on this naval base, a place where the man has his own home that is cut off from the mainland except
The Defense Ministry speculated at the time that leftist guerrillas had planted the explosives days earlier but were thwarted by security from getting close enough to detonate the dynamite on the day Bush left.
Jerry Parr, who was head of President Ronald Reagan's protective detail, said that on a scale of 1 to 10, the danger to Bush was "probably a seven or an eight."
"It is likely to be president," said Parr, who in 1981 shoved a wounded Reagan into a limousine and rushed him to a hospital after an assassination attempt. "You can't reduce all the risks.
"Anytime you take the president out of the United Staes, it's got a lot of unknowns about it, despite the fact you're going to do everything you can," Parr said.
"The whole game will be to minimize the danger and reduce the killers' or the assassins' options. Since he is going, the Secret Service really has thought it out well," Parr said.
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