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| Reuters: Writing Propaganda, Not Journalism 12/15/03 |
| In an article by Reuters’ “reporters” Wafa Amr and Nidal
al-Mughrabi on December 15th, 2003, the story contradicts Israel’s
official version of what really happened in yet another pure example of
how the officials say one thing, while Arab fabrications continue. 1) The Reuters article states that “Israeli forces raided a refugee camp and killed two unarmed Palestinians.” However, the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli media reported that the two men were killed while trying to infiltrate Jewish areas of control in the Gaza Strip during a gun battle. How can Israeli troops “trust” and “hold their fire” when they are under fire, and when these men were breaking into a place where they weren’t supposed to be? What makes matters worse here is that the Reuters “reporters” never even quoted Israeli sources to get their side of the story, they simply took the Palestinian line. That’s not an example of bad journalism, it is simply not an example of journalism at all. It is pure propaganda and it is unfit for Reuters to print, but of course they did it anyway. 2) In the same article the writers go on to say that Israel demolished ten homes in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, which after 55 years is still considered a “refugee camp” by the Arabs. However, the writers failed to mention that the IDF says the structures were being used by terrorists to shoot at Israelis, and that the “structures” as the IDF called them, were abandoned. Again, this is propaganda, not journalism, and it is unfit to print. Tell Reuters to report, not to fabricate. Write them at editor@reuters.com or email me at Jason@shevetvoice.com BC-MIDEAST 12-15 0590 BC-MIDEAST (UPDATE 2) UPDATE 2-New Mideast talks broached despite Gaza violence (Recasts for economic meeting ending in Jerusalem) JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hopes for reviving a stalled Middle East peace plan were buoyed Monday as Israel and the Palestinians held U.S.-brokered negotiations and militants prepared for a new round of cease-fire talks. The new diplomatic initiatives moved forward despite fresh violence in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces raided a refugee camp and killed two unarmed Palestinians. A U.S. State Department official David Satterfield oversaw a meeting in Jerusalem Monday between senior Israeli and Palestinian officials arranged after a weekend of intensive efforts to restart a stalled U.S.-backed peace "road map." Both sides are talking," a Western diplomat said. He cautioned, however, that expectations for significant progress were low. Egyptian mediators, meanwhile, planned a new round of
negotiations with militants Tuesday after talks in Cairo on suspending
attacks against Israel collapsed last week, Palestinian sources said. A
cease-fire is seen as crucial to reviving the road map. The two-day
talks, to be held in Gaza City, will involve Hamas, Islamic Jihad and
other factions that have spearheaded a suicide bombing campaign during a
3-year-old uprising. Qurie and Egyptian mediators had been pushing
militants to accept a full cease-fire to halt all attacks on Israelis,
but Hamas -- which wanted Israel to reciprocate -- refused. The talks
broke down on Dec. 7. "We have not given up. We will continue to
work to reach a comprehensive cease-fire," an Egyptian official
told Reuters. A Palestinian source said two major-generals would head
the Egyptian delegation. PALESTINIAN ECONOMY CRIPPLED U.S. and
Palestinian officials said the talks with Israel on Monday, with
European donor nations attending, focused on economic issues, not the
peace plan. Yet Israeli officials saw implications for the flagging
peace process in the new contacts. The Palestinian economy has been
crippled by three years of Israeli military blockades, which Israel says
are meant to stop suicide bombers but Palestinians call collective
punishment. Dov Weisglass, Sharon's chief of staff, led the Israeli team
and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat headed the Palestinian
delegation, political sources said. Underlining the difficulties of
restarting peace efforts, Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians
trying to sneak into Israel from the Gaza Strip and troops fought gun battles
with militants during a raid into a refugee camp overnight. The two were
killed when troops fired on a group approaching Gaza's border fence with
Israel, Israeli security sources said. They said the army was
investigating whether the unarmed men were laborers trying to cross the
border to get work. The shooting occurred as soldiers backed by tanks
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| Short, Pointless, Unfair and Inaccurate 11/15/03 |
| A critical review of an Associated Press summary on November
11th, 2003. 1) In this short article that was ripped and read from the wires by countless radio stations across the United States, and slightly varied by dozens of television stations regarding Israel’s security fence, at no point does the writer make mention of why the fence is being built. 2) At no point does the writer explain the fence is being built to keep suicide bombers from blowing up buses full of the elderly, full of little children, full of commuters on their way home to their families, are on their way to work to support those families. 3) However, the writer does quote a disputed United Nations report that says the security fence will inconvenience more than 600 thousand Palestinians. The writer of course leaves out that Israel did its own study and released a map detailing the villages that will be impacted, and its figures say 14 thousand Palestinians will be inconvenienced. That’s a pretty big discrepancy. What is certain of course is the writer of this story is biased, ill-informed, and left out the fact that the fence will save a countless amount of Jewish lives, and probably Palestinian lives as well. Tell the Associated Press to get it right, and to be fair. Right them at info@ap.org If you have questions for me, send them to jason@shevetvoice.com. (Jerusalem-AP) -- Israel's defense minister says he has no immediate plans to dismantle Jewish settlement outposts. Speaking to Israeli Army Radio, Shaul Mofaz (shah-OOL' moh-FAHZ') also defended the proposed route of a security barrier that cuts deep into the West Bank. But a United Nations report says only eleven percent of the planned 430-mile divider will actually follow the invisible frontier between Israel and the West Bank. The report says it will ultimately disrupt the lives of 680-thousand Palestinians and carve off 14-and-a-half percent of the West Bank. Israel says it's building the barrier to keep out Palestinian militants. Palestinians say the outposts and barrier threaten their goal of establishing an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza. Under the road map, Israel must remove dozens of outposts set up since March 2001. |
| If the victims are Israeli, The AP Doesn't call it Terrorism Nov 14 |
| Complain to feedback@ap.org Dear AP: My name is Allan Spielman and I am a big user of Yahoo. I noticed an article of yours called "Recent Terror Attacks Around the World " that for some reason left our all instances or terror attacks against Israelis by Hamas. Islamic Jihad, and Arafat's groups. Can you please explain to be if this is an oversight or a deliberate policy. I have heard the argument that "One mans terrorist is another man's hero". Does this explain your rational for not calling the murders of innocents Israelis an "act of terrorism". Does that mean you "Understand" why the Trade center was attacked and can't call it terrorism? A response will be very appreciated. "Recent Terror Attacks Around the World " Sat Nov 8, 8:22 PM ET By The Associated Press _ Aug. 5, 2003. A suicide bombers kills 12 people and injures 150 at the J.W. Marriott in Jakarta, Indonesia. Authorities blame Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian group linked to al-Qaida. _ May 16, 2003: Bomb attacks in Morocco kill at least 28 people and injure more than 100. The government blames "international terrorism," and local militant groups linked to al-Qaida. _ May 12, 2003: Four explosions rock Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in an attack on compounds housing Americans, other Westerners and Saudis. Eight Americans are among those killed. In all, the attack kills 35 people, including nine attackers. _ May 11, 2003: A bomb explodes at a crowded market in a southern Philippine city, killing at least nine people and wounding 41. The military blames the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. _ Dec. 30, 2002: A gunman kills three American missionaries at a Southern Baptist hospital in Yemen. Yemeni officials say the gunman, sentenced to death in May, belonged to an al-Qaida cell. _ Nov. 28, 2002: Suicide bombers kill 12 people at an Israeli-owned beach hotel in Kenya and two missiles narrowly miss an airliner carrying Israelis. _ Oct. 12, 2002: Nearly 200 people, including seven Americans, are killed in bombings in a nightclub district of the Indonesian island of Bali. Authorities blame Jemaah Islamiyah. _ Oct. 6, 2002: A small boat crashes into a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen and explodes, killing one crewman. _ Oct. 2, 2002: Suspected Abu Sayyaf guerrillas detonate a nail-laden bomb in a market in Zamboanga, Philippines, killing four people, including an American Green Beret. Four more bomb attacks in October blamed on Abu Sayyaf, a group linked to al-Qaida, kill 16 people. _ June 14, 2002: A suicide bomber blows up a truck at the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14 Pakistanis. Authorities say it is the work of Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, linked to al-Qaida. _ April 11, 2002: A suicide bombing with a gas truck at a historic Tunisian synagogue on the resort island of Djerba kills 21 people, mostly German tourists. _ Sept. 11, 2001: Hijackers slam jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites) and a fourth hijacked jet crashes in a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people. _ Dec. 30, 2000: Explosions in Manila strike a train, a bus, the airport, a park near the U.S. Embassy and a gas station, killing 22 people. Philippine and U.S. investigators link the attack to Jemaah Islamiyah. _ Oct. 12, 2000: Suicide attackers on an explosives-laden boat ram the destroyer USS Cole (news - web sites) off Yemen, killing 17 American sailors. _ Aug. 7, 1998: Nearly simultaneous car bombings hit the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 231 people, including 12 Americans. |
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| Christmas Eve Criticism 12/23/03 |
| A Critical analysis of the Christmas Eve criticism of Israel
from Reuters "reporter "Nidal al-Mughrabi." 1) From his opening statement "Palestinian officials said an Israeli raid in which nine people were killed in the Gaza Strip had put in doubt talks to prepare for a vital peace summit even as Israel's army rolled back on Wednesday" there is bias. Nidal al-Mugrabi waits several paragraphs to write Israel's Defense Forces "said" they were hunting for tunnels. The "reporter" never says, they actually did find the tunnels, so not only did Israel "say" they were hunting for tunnels, they actually "did" find tunnels. 2) In addition, Nidal al-Mugrabi also continues the same old line of propaganda the Arabs have used since 1948 by saying, "In Rafah, home to thousands of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war of the Jewish state's creation, dozens of families found themselves dispossessed once more by Israeli bulldozers that reduced rows of shanties to rubble in the 24-hour raid." The reality is the Palestinians didn't become "refugees" by Israel's creation. They became refugees after Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon tried to invade Israel, but instead displaced the people living in the Palestinian state that was set up by the United Nations, when it also allowed for Israel to be born again. This line of propaganda that is repeated over and over in the media must come to an end, readers, viewers and listeners need to be told the truth. Israel did not displace the Palestinians, Arab invasions did. Please write editor@reuters.com and tell them to stop the lies and incitement. You can email me at jason@shevetvoice.com BC-MIDEAST Israelis end Gaza raid but peace meeting in doubt By Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Palestinian officials said an Israeli raid in which nine people were killed in the Gaza Strip had put in doubt talks to prepare for a vital peace summit even as Israel's army rolled back on Wednesday. Meetings in Jerusalem between Israeli and Palestinian officials had been due on Wednesday to arrange a long-awaited encounter between Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Ahmed Qurie. But Palestinian sources said that was now in doubt. "The meeting scheduled for today will probably be cancelled to protest Israel's raid on Rafah," an official in Qurie's office told Reuters. Israeli tanks and bulldozers trundled out of Rafah after some the fiercest clashes for two months, in which nine Palestinians were killed, dozens wounded and scores left homeless. The army said it had been hunting for tunnels used to smuggle arms from Egypt. The militant group Hamas said it fired four homemade rockets across Gaza's boundary with Israel overnight. No one was hurt. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Gaza ambush on Monday. The violence again highlighted the failure of either side to make progress on the U.S.-backed "road map" peace deal that is meant to lead to a Palestinian state by 2005. It has been bogged down by violence and the failure of either side to meet pledges. Israeli sources could not confirm if there would be a meeting with Palestinian officials, but said Egypt might offer to host a summit of the prime ministers that is widely seen as crucial for getting negotiations on track. There was no immediate comment from Cairo, which has tried to coax a truce from militants sworn to Israel's destruction. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher won tacit Israeli approval for the efforts during a visit to Jerusalem this week. Israel said it would ease a military blockade imposed in the West Bank against a three-year-old Palestinian uprising to allow pilgrims to reach Bethlehem for Christmas eve. Palestinians call the checkpoints and closures collective punishment. HOMELESS AGAIN In Rafah, home to thousands of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war of the Jewish state's creation, dozens of families found themselves dispossessed once more by Israeli bulldozers that reduced rows of shanties to rubble in the 24-hour raid. An Israeli military spokeswoman said troops demolished a three-storey building found to be concealing a tunnel she said was used by militants to fuel the Palestinian revolt in Gaza. "Are they really looking for tunnels? I do not think so. They only want to displace us again," said a Rafah woman as she tried to recover flour from the kitchen of her wrecked home. Medics identified the nine men killed in Rafah as four militants, a policeman, and three bystanders. At least 40 other Palestinians were wounded as gunmen took on the Israeli troops. Israel demands a Palestinian crackdown on militant groups as required by the road map, and has warned the Qurie government that if the plan fails Israel will take unilateral steps that could cost Palestinians some of the land they want for a state. Palestinians say Israel must meet its own road map pledges by removing Jewish outposts and freezing settlement-building on occupied land, as well as halting work on a barrier through the West Bank that Israel says it needs to keep out suicide bombers. (Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah) REUTERS |
| Reuters Can Never Resist a Swipe 12/1/03 |
| A critical analysis of an article by Reuters by an anonymous
reporter on November 28th, 2003. 1) In an article about France banning Muslim headscarves from public schools, the writer says, “Calls to ban headscarves have also increased amid a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in recent years which authorities blame on a growing Islamic identity among young Muslim men angered by Israel's tough military strategy against the Palestinians.” 2) It is fair to include the recent wave of anti-Jewish attacks by Muslims in the article, but the writer takes a back handed swipe at Israel and Jews by identifying the attacks with Israel’s audacity to protect itself from terrorists. To call self protection a “tough military strategy” is hardly fair. Write Reuters at editor@reuters.com to tell them you disagree. The full article is below. You can write me at jason@shevetvoice.com BC-RELIGION-FRANCE-HEADS 11-28 0458 BC-RELIGION-FRANCE-HEADSCARF France says banning Muslim veils good for women PARIS (Reuters) - The French government plans to ban the Muslim headscarf from public schools to protect teenage girls from "fundamentalist pressures" to wear it, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Friday. Raffarin told his center-right UMP party defending women's rights would be the guiding principle in any law the government passes about the veil, a prominent issue pitting fiercely secular France against some of its five million Muslims. Women politicians have been especially keen for a ban on the headscarves, saying Islamic fundamentalists and conservative male family members were pressuring teenage girls into wearing them in violation of France's principle of sexual equality. "The legislative decision we take will be good if it protects women, all women, from all fundamentalist pressures," Raffarin told a party meeting in the Paris suburb of Villepinte. "That is the main point. This is not about religion, it's about lifting a constraint on women." Pressure to ban what are called ostentatious signs of
religion has been mounting in France as Muslim women and girls are
ejected from schools, denied jobs and even turned down for jury duty
because they insist on keeping their heads covered. Muslim girls caught
in the headscarf controversy deny their veils are exaggerated or
proselytizing and argue that banning them would infringe on their
freedom of religion Calls to ban headscarves have also increased amid a
wave of anti-Semitic attacks in recent years which authorities blame on
a growing Islamic identity among young Muslim men angered by Israel's
tough military strategy against the Palestinians. |
| The Associated Press and "the War Refugees" 12/5/03 |
| A critical analysis of the November 30th article by the
Associated Press, published on the Wall Street Journal’s website. 1) The article calls Palestinians living in what the media popularly calls the West Bank and Gaza, “war refugees.” 2)From what war? Many of these people who live in these areas have been doing so since their grandparents and great-grandparents listened to the advice of Arab leaders in 1948 when they were told to flee, because they were going to massacre the Jews living in the newly created state of Israel, which was sanctioned and partitioned by the United Nations. 3) It should also be said for historical record, and just simply for fairness and accuracy, that the Arabs were also given a state by the partition, but they refused it. These aren’t refugees living there so much, as they are remnants of a people who refused a fair deal, gambled for everything, and then fled for their lives, for no reason. Since then, they have resorted to terrorism and calls for mass murder, rather than to accept a peace deal that would give them an unprecedented second chance at a country of their own and possibly bring peace to the region. To call them “war refugees” is absolutely inaccurate. Write the Associated Press and tell them their article is just wrong and the use of the term “war refugees” should not apply here. Email: feedback@ap.org and info@ap.org You can email me at jason@shevetvoice.com |
| BLAMING ISRAEL FOR ISTANBUL : From Honestreporting.com 11/20 |
| Communique: 20 November 2003 BLAMING ISRAEL FOR ISTANBUL Dear HonestReporting Subscriber, British Consulate, Istanbul (Reuters photo) Today's coordinated bombings against British targets in Istanbul, occurring just days after the dual bombings of Istanbul synagogues, make the Islamic terrorist message brutally clear ¯ their targets are the Jewish people and Western democratic ivilization. What most Americans recognized after 9/11, Europeans are now also beginning to see: radical Islamists threaten every Western citizen, and Israel is merely a convenient front line for their battle. Given this, HonestReporting is concerned about the re-emergence of a trend we witnessed after 9/11 ¯ the media's shift of focus away from this stark reality, and onto Israeli policy as a scapegoat for Islamic terrorism. Recent examples: (1) The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on the Istanbul synagogue bombings: "[T]he reaction of Arabs, Muslims and others to Israeli actions in the West Bank and Gaza is spilling over into anti-Semitism and violence directed against Jewish populations normally living in peace in countries like Turkey...The United States could help by returning to a credible policy of seeking a two-state solution for the Israelis and Palestinians." Comments to: editor@post-gazette.com (2) In Germany, Wolfgang Guenter Lerch wrote in Frankfurter Allgemeine: "The criminal attacks on two synagogues in Istanbul were mainly directed against Israel...Even secular Turks are dismayed when the see what is happening in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories."* (3) Lerch is just one step short of the Egyptian newspaper, Al Wafd: "Why do we not say that the attack was plotted in order to improve Israel's image in the EU after the recent poll that showed it as the primary threat to global peace? Why do we exclude Turkish Jews as perpetrators?"* (4) K Gajendra Singh, India's former ambassador to Turkey, writes in the Asian Times: "Many Turkish experts suspect that the twin bombings were a warning to Turkey, one of the few Muslim countries to have ties with Israel...The blasts could be an act of revenge for the daily killings of Palestinians and the Israelis building a much-opposed wall that encroaches on Palestinian land." This media trend recasts the radical Islamic war against the Jewish people and the West as something else entirely ¯ an Israeli-specific disaster that now everyone's suffering from. Coverage of President Bush's powerful speech on Tuesday in London further illustrates the problem. Bush, after pointed reference to the pre-WWII failure to confront Nazi tyranny, called for democratic reform in the Mideast: As we work on the details of peace, we must look to the heart of the matter, which is the need for a viable Palestinian democracy. Peace will not be achieved by Palestinian rulers who intimidate opposition, who tolerate and profit from corruption, and maintain their ties to terrorist groups...The long-suffering Palestinian people deserve better. They deserve true leaders, capable of creating and governing a Palestinian states...Leaders in Europe should withdraw all favor and support from any Palestinian ruler who fails his people and betrays their cause. And Europe's leaders ¯ and all leaders ¯ should strongly oppose anti-Semitism, which poisons public debates over the future of the Middle East. Though Bush himself called Palestinian reform "the heart of the matter" and warned of the dangerous new wave of anti-Semitism, these Reuters' headlines focused instead on Israeli policy: ¯ "Israel Defiant Over Barrier After Bush Criticism" ¯ "Bush Urges Israel Not to Prejudice Peace Talks" ¯ "Israel Spurns Bush Call Over West Bank Fence" Comments to Reuters: editor@reuters.com As the radical Islamic war against the innocent tragically expands, HonestReporting encourages subscribers to monitor your local media to ensure that Israel does not again emerge as a scapegoat for mass terror, and that the Western resolve to fight the terrorists themselves receives accurate coverage. --- INDIANA ARSON --- On November 18, the CANDLES Holocaust Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana was burned to the ground, the target of apparent arson. CANDLES, which stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Experiments Survivors, was founded in 1995 by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, and housed artifacts from Auschwitz and documents relating to Dr. Josef Mengele. One would expect that such a hate crime ¯ in the heartland of America ¯ would attract widespread media attention. Yet few newspapers covered it. HonestReporting encourages subscribers to contact your local media, asking for an explanation for this disturbing omission. |
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| Reuters is the 800 Pound 11/15/03 |
| A critical analysis of the November 13th Reuters article by
Marim Karouny from Beirut 1) In the article Karouny describes Israel as holding up the prisoner swap for one Israeli for 450 Arabs because "Israel ruled out releasing Samir al-Qantar, a Lebanese involved in a guerrilla attack on Israelis, who Hizbollah demands be part of any swap." Samir al-Qantar, for those of you who don't know, was captured after breaking into a home in Northern Israel, and murdering a father and the man's little girl after taking them hostage in 1979. He's a cold blooded murderer, to describe him as a guerilla is to equate him with someone who fights soldiers, not innocent, unarmed families in their homes. Another infant daughter of the Israeli murder victim was also killed in what Reuters might call, "a daring raid" into that civilian home. 2) Later in the article, the Reuters "reporter" writes, "Israel kidnapped senior Hizbollah figure Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid in 1989 and guerrilla leader Mustapha Dirani in 1994 in order to gain leverage over Arad, who it believes may have been given to Iran." Israel took these two Arabs because they had boasted of holding Ron Arad and selling him to Iran. 3) The writer also criticizes Israel's campaign in Lebanon when saying, "Nasrallah, whose Iranian and Syrian-backed group helped end Israel's 22-year occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, said Israel had backed out of previous agreements by excluding Qantar." At no point does the writer happen to mention that Israel was invited by the Lebanese government to help secure the country after the PLO's quasi invasion, and its virtual take-over of Beirut. Write Reuters at editor@reuters.com. Tell them they're writing is abusive, unfair and just bad journalism. You can write me at jason@shevetvoice.com Fate of prisoner swap clear in days - Hizbollah By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas said Thursday that the fate of proposed swap of Lebanese and other Arab prisoners in Israel for Hizbollah's Israeli captives would be clear in the next three days. That swap -- under negotiation for three years via German mediators -- appeared threatened this week when The broad outlines of the swap, narrowly approved by Israel's cabinet at the weekend, include trading all Lebanese detainees, some 400 Palestinians and other Arab prisoners in Israel for an Israeli businessman abducted by Hizbollah in 2000 and three Israeli soldiers thought dead after being kidnapped. "Our clear goal and our hope is to see to see sons return to the embrace of their mothers and fathers. We will know the truth and the details within the next three days, God willing," Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in Beirut. While Nasrallah did not specify what would happen in order to bring a resolution within three days, he did say he was due to see the mediators again. Nasrallah, whose Iranian and Syrian-backed group helped end Israel's 22-year occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, said Israel had backed out of previous agreements by excluding Qantar. "The enemy now is drawing back from conditions he had agreed to over years of negotiation, only because he doesn't want to grant us a moral victory. We are not looking for moral victories," he said. "At the end of the day, let me assure you that just as our land was gotten back, our prisoners -- all of our prisoners -- are coming back, in glory and honor." Separately, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Israeli television during a trip to Washington that it could be weeks, maybe longer, before the swap got under way. The swap plan divided Israel's cabinet and public opinion in the Jewish state, where some saw it as an incentive to snatch more Israelis that did nothing to reveal the fate of Israeli airman Ron Arad, who disappeared while bombing Lebanon in 1986. Israel kidnapped senior Hizbollah figure Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid in 1989 and guerrilla leader Mustapha Dirani in 1994 in order to gain leverage over Arad, who it believes may have been given to Iran. Hizbollah abducted former army officer Elhanan Tannenbaum on what Israel calls an illicit trip to the United Arab Emirates, weeks after it snatched the three Israeli troops in a disputed border zone. Israel believes those soldiers are Sead. REUTERS |
| NY and LA Times Anti-Israel Media Bias and How To Respond 10/28/2003 |
| (1a) Does this sound like an editorial or reporting of the
news in the NY Times? If you do not like it, you can write the editor at: letters@nytimes.com Israelis Hit Gaza With 5 Assaults; 11 Dead, 90 Hurt (1b) Perhaps you sensed "understanding shown for Matthew's comments displayed in this op ed. OP-ED COLUMNIST Listening to Mahathir, By PAUL KRUGMAN The Malaysian prime minister's remarks were probably a rhetorical nod to his country's Muslim majority, which is increasingly anti-Semitic and anti-American. "Somewhere in Pakistan Osama bin Laden must be enjoying this. The war on terror didn't have to be perceived as a war on Islam, but we seem to be doing our best to make it look that way." Speak up at if you don't agree with (1c) NY Times Protest Bias Monitor Times View of 5 Gaza Attacks on October 20 Visit http://forum.nytimesprotest.org James Bennett on October 21, 2003 describes PM Sharon's retaliation against 3 IDF soldiers being killed and rocket launches into Israel as follows: "Mr. Sharon's pattern, first as a general and then as a politician, has been to set seemingly audacious goals, or to employ seemingly audacious tactics like the use of warplanes against Palestinian targets, and then, over time, to accustom even his sharpest critics to them." When you are trying to prevent collateral damage to the best of your ability by surgical strikes against an enemy that places forces in civilian areas, is there a better way then the current method of air strikes? Audacious? Mr. Bennett is audacious in using tendentious adjectives in a news report. There they go again. Click here to share your comments on this Open Forum Posting Are you a Member of our NYTimesProtest Open Forum? (2) LA Times Calls Hamas Terrorists "Armed Resistance Leaders": The LA Times anti-Israel drumbeat rolls on - Hamas terrorists are called "armed resistance leaders". See http://www.oocities.org/truthmasters/watch03-6.html#1023 |