Truth Harbourers

CNN & BBC - Inciters to Violence

Women For Israel's Tomorrow - Jerusalem Post

The blatant prejudice against Israel shown by CNN and BBC in their reporting of events in the Holy Land is well known. You can predict with certainty that their media coverage will be decidedly slanted in favor of the Arabs. Formal protests against their lack of impartiality by hoards of listeners, and even by the State of Israel itself, have proven to be of no avail.

One can even detect patent anti-Semitic overtones in their selection and discussion of subjects they choose concerning Israel. Of course, CNN will be quick to point out that some leading members of their broadcasting teams are themselves Jews, to wit: Larry King, Wolf Blitzer and Jonathan Mann. Unfortunately, there are Jews who will not forego their prestigious positions because their employer is an Israel-basher. The U.S. State Department and the kind of Jews with whom Clinton surrounds himself, are prime examples of this phenomenon. Apparently, the device of hiring token Jews to cover up for their pernicious policies of discrimination works, as they pound away at Israel and its Jewish population.

Hanan Ashrawi, Arafat's spokeswoman, is a favorite of both CNN and BBC. She is notoriously biased, and is always used by them to justify Arab - Palestinian positions, no matter how illogical and difficult such tortuous justifications may be. On the other hand, they choose to select to speak on behalf of Israel only those from the Israeli secular, anti-nationalist left, who always turn out to be prominent proponents of the Berlin-Peres-Oslo minority viewpoint.

CNN and BBC ludicrously refer to the Temple Mount only as an Arab holy place and call it by the name the Arabs have given it. The facts are that the ancient Jewish Temples were located on that Temple Mount long (2000 years) before there was a Muslim religion, or an Arab people. Both in effect deny the historical fact that this Biblical site is considered by Jews as their holiest religious site. Moreover, both CNN and BBC choose to ignore the fact that in Judaism, the Temple Mount has been a holy place for Jews for thousands of years.

What can be done about these powerful "media giants" who are some of the major sources of conveying the news in the Middle East? They are working against the continued existence of Israel in a blatant and formidable manner. They show neither mercy nor shame in their distortions of the news from the Middle East, and coat it with an authenticity that it does not have.

Women in Green have decided to take on these purveyors of prejudice and lies. The anti-Semitic policies directed against Israel by CNN and BBC should be exposed for what they are: immoral, poisonous, and untruthful. On a daily basis, these powerful media giants spew their venom against Israel to their listeners, and indirectly against the Jewish People. It is time that the world community raises its voice in protest at the false and baseless propaganda against the Jews of Israel. By their silence CNN and BBC virtually endorse the recent barbaric acts of Arabs against Jewish soldiers and civilians in Israel. Equally abhorrent is their silent acceptance of Arafat's conscripting and using children in stone-throwing tactics against Jews. It is high time that their morally reprehensible actions be strongly condemned.

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