Peter Cronau on X:
How Australia’s media used to report Israeli atrocities. (with credit to Jose Teixeira)
A 1948 account of the Jewish ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ronald Monson, Daily Telegraph (Sydney) correspondent in Jerusalem.
The tone of Monson's reporting was remarkably different to much of the Western media reporting from Palestine and Lebanon today.
Monson did not try to downplay Zionist crimes and he humanised the Palestinian victims.
Reporting when journalists were carrying through with their mission, to out the truth and did not succumb to pressure from lobbies with $$$ and threats.
Report: They massacred Arab babies
From RONALD MONSON In Jerusalem
Jewish mortar bombs were coming over the Damascus Gate, bursting with shuddering explosions in narrow alleys when I visited the Jacob E. Spofford Memorial Hospital - American institution — close by the Gate today (Wednesday).
I had come to visit the Arab orphans from Deir Yassin. I carried no sweets, because their nurse, Miriam Bedrossian, doesn't think sweets are good for year-old babies.
Miriam had cared for these 15 babies since they were brought to the refuge a few days after the massacre of their parents last March. There were 16, but one died of wounds - aged nine months….