No one cares much about the blatant propaganda pieces you post. Israel has become a rogue state – the disgusting and racist videos you post just reinforce that reality. Those are Jews basically telling you to go fuck yourselves.
And so can you…
(AJR) – Bennett says the chairman, Michael Goldblatt, told her the organization was going to continue its efforts to hurt the [Philadelphia] Inquirer economically, while the president, Leonard Getz, laid down the terms for ending the ZOA’s boycott. “He said Israel was the victim, and that we should approach all stories from this perspective,” Bennett says. “And if we did this, they would call off the boycott, and our circulation would rise.”
The delegation also presented Bennett with a scathing report on her brief tenure titled “New Era but the Same Errors: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s coverage of the Middle East in the first 60 days of the Amanda Bennett Era.”
As Bennett and others covering the conflict have discovered, they have been plunged into a kind of proxy war for the one raging between Israel and the Palestinians. The American version is fought with e-mails, threatening phone calls, demonstrations and pressure on advertisers, but to the people on the receiving end, the struggle seems as toxic and never-ending as the real thing.
“There’s no place in the world that causes as much misery for a journalist,” says syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, who writes frequently about the Middle East. “The Arabs get extremely angry if you’re not on their side. The Israelis get enraged if you’re not 1,000 percent on their side. You just can’t please anyone.”
Pro-Israeli Web sites, which are better staffed and funded, generate about 10 times as much mail as pro-Arab sites, editors say. They note, too, that the volume waxes and wanes depending on the level of violence. (See “Days of Rage,” July/August 2002.) After an event like the March assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the founder of Hamas, monitoring sites go into overdrive.
HonestReporting.com, a pro-Israeli pressure group, lambasted news outlets for calling the sheikh a spiritual leader rather than a terrorist, while Palestine Media Watch (pmwatch.com) put out an “action call” headed “Don’t let U.S. media whitewash Sheikh’s assassination.”
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Frequently, these so-called media monitors, who say they are only interested in fairness and balance, will seize on a word or a phrase and leave out the context. Take the case of a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial that called both PLO leader Yassir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “pigheaded and destructive.” In a communiqué urging readers to complain to the Inquirer, HonestReporting.com omitted the reference to Arafat to make the editorial sound like a one-sided attack on Sharon.
Israeli lobby groups in the States don’t know how to react. Several papers, including The Independent, have been bombarded by hundreds of letters and e-mails from supposedly outraged American “readers” most of them from parts of the United States where The Independent, for example, is not on sale and many of them written in vitriolic, even violent language. A number have been written in answer to an appeal from an outfit called “honestreporting.com“, which carries a series of misleading and, in some cases, untruthful statements about my own articles.
They are balanced, however, by large numbers of letters and e-mails asking why the American press doesn’t give the full coverage of events found in The Independent and other European newspapers.
“The sarcastic use of “suicide activists” is really non-productive, as many will not see the sarcastic nature of it, and start the common use of it.”
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territory to a "humanitarian minimum". (The Economist)
The despicable videos posted by well-known propagandist karmafish deserve some balance in this post.
Here is a dose of reality of what goes on in Gaza:
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Each life is sacred. 13 Israelis were killed, that is 13 too many. No Israelis should get killed, they should have security and peace. But 1300 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli war machine. And the proportion 1:100 is an apartheid number. It’s a mathematical expression of the apartheid system. And it’s a mathematical expression of the lack of respect for Palestinian human life, which in my value system, carries exactly the same untouchable value as an Israeli life. Among the 13 Israelis killed, 10 were soldiers, 3 were civilians, none of them children. Among the 10 soldiers, 4 or 5 were killed by “friendly fire.”
Among the 1300 or so killed Palestinians, 28% were children. Among the 5,400 or so injured Palestinians, every second was a child below 18 or a woman. And these numbers, you can’t contest them and argue with them. They are the same numbers in the Goldstone report, in the Amnesty International report, in the B’Tselem report (pdf), in the Arab League Fact Finding report (pdf): 85-90% of the injured or killed were civilians. This is of course contrary to international laws, and I think it’s due time that Israel, as the occupying force, being responsible for the security and well-being of the occupied population, and being responsible for the attacks on Gaza, are brought to the International Criminal Court in Hague for justice. I’m not a lawyer by profession and cannot judge if this was genocide or crimes against humanity, but I’m pretty sure that these were flagrant war crimes. But these are legal questions, quite complicated, and I have respect for the law, and have respect for the professionalism of the lawyers. If Israel has nothing to hide, no problem, take it to the International Criminal Court. If they have something to hide, they want to hinder that, and that’s why they’re shooting down the Goldstone report and accusing Goldstone of being an anti-Semite, which is absolutely ridiculous. He himself doesn’t mind being called a Zionist, he portrays himself as a strong friend of Israel, his daughter I believe is living in one of the colonies in the West Bank.
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No one cares much about the blatant propaganda pieces you post. Israel has become a rogue state – the disgusting and racist videos you post just reinforce that reality.
Those are Jews basically telling you to go fuck yourselves.
And so can you…
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(AJR) – Bennett says the chairman, Michael Goldblatt, told her the organization was going to continue its efforts to hurt the [Philadelphia] Inquirer economically, while the president, Leonard Getz, laid down the terms for ending the ZOA’s boycott. “He said Israel was the victim, and that we should approach all stories from this perspective,” Bennett says. “And if we did this, they would call off the boycott, and our circulation would rise.”
The delegation also presented Bennett with a scathing report on her brief tenure titled “New Era but the Same Errors: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s coverage of the Middle East in the first 60 days of the Amanda Bennett Era.”
As Bennett and others covering the conflict have discovered, they have been plunged into a kind of proxy war for the one raging between Israel and the Palestinians. The American version is fought with e-mails, threatening phone calls, demonstrations and pressure on advertisers, but to the people on the receiving end, the struggle seems as toxic and never-ending as the real thing.
“There’s no place in the world that causes as much misery for a journalist,” says syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, who writes frequently about the Middle East. “The Arabs get extremely angry if you’re not on their side. The Israelis get enraged if you’re not 1,000 percent on their side. You just can’t please anyone.”
HONEST REPORTING BY SHRAGA SIMMONS
Pro-Israeli Web sites, which are better staffed and funded, generate about 10 times as much mail as pro-Arab sites, editors say. They note, too, that the volume waxes and wanes depending on the level of violence. (See “Days of Rage,” July/August 2002.) After an event like the March assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the founder of Hamas, monitoring sites go into overdrive.
HonestReporting.com, a pro-Israeli pressure group, lambasted news outlets for calling the sheikh a spiritual leader rather than a terrorist, while Palestine Media Watch (pmwatch.com) put out an “action call” headed “Don’t let U.S. media whitewash Sheikh’s assassination.”
…
Frequently, these so-called media monitors, who say they are only interested in fairness and balance, will seize on a word or a phrase and leave out the context. Take the case of a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial that called both PLO leader Yassir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “pigheaded and destructive.” In a communiqué urging readers to complain to the Inquirer, HonestReporting.com omitted the reference to Arafat to make the editorial sound like a one-sided attack on Sharon.
Israeli lobby groups in the States don’t know how to react. Several papers, including The Independent, have been bombarded by hundreds of letters and e-mails from supposedly outraged American “readers” most of them from parts of the United States where The Independent, for example, is not on sale and many of them written in vitriolic, even violent language. A number have been written in answer to an appeal from an outfit called “honestreporting.com“, which carries a series of misleading and, in some cases, untruthful statements about my own articles.
They are balanced, however, by large numbers of letters and e-mails asking why the American press doesn’t give the full coverage of events found in The Independent and other European newspapers.
“The sarcastic use of “suicide activists” is really non-productive, as many will not see the sarcastic nature of it, and start the common use of it.”
Since 2006 Israel has limited the import of various goods to the Hamas-controlled
territory to a "humanitarian minimum". (The Economist)
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
The despicable videos posted by well-known propagandist karmafish deserve some balance in this post.
Here is a dose of reality of what goes on in Gaza:
Quotes from an interview with Dr. Gilbert after operation Cast Lead: