Folks, I am on some Israeli PR mailing list out of the UK called "Honest Reporting" (sic). They are a media watchdog group and they often point the way to articles that leave Israel into a lesser light. Take a look at these stories...where ISRAEL IS BEING BLAMED by the media. Presently, even with the horrendous tragedy, more and more talking heads are suggesting that we need to REEVALUATE OUR MIDDLE EAST policies.
Jaffer
HonestReporting members have reported the
scapegoating of Israel by columnist Robert
Novak, ABC anchor Peter Jennings and others. Here
are selected examples:
(1) Time Magazine's Tony Karon - "Why Didn't We
Know?" (Sept. 14):
"To be sure, the U.S. had plenty of reasons to
believe Bin Laden would try and strike
at its cities. He's tried before, for one thing, and
the motivation to launch a
spectacular attack would have grown exponentially
over the past year as anti-American
feeling surged on the Arab streets in response U.S.
support for Israel..."
Read Karon's column at:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,175025,00.html
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(2) The Washington Post's Caryle Murphy - "A Hatred
Rooted in Failings" (Sept. 16).
Murphy served as the Post's Cairo bureau chief from
1989-94.
"Having spent many years living in the region and
learning about Islam, I believe that
three major factors have brought it to this point:
authoritarian governments that have
spawned extremist movements by failing to develop a
civil society that permits
dissent; the inability of modern interpretations of
Islam to prevail over outdated,
orthodox versions; and America's failure to resolve
the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict... the 50-year-old conflict between Israel
and the Palestinians rages on.
"Seen through Muslim eyes, it is a conflict
prolonged by America's bias toward Israel.
Muslims do not comprehend, for example, how the
United States, which gives Israel more
than $3 billion annually, could not have stopped
Israel from allowing more than
200,000 Jewish settlers -- half of them since the
1993 Oslo peace agreement -- to move
into occupied territory Palestinians had envisioned
as their homeland... If we want to
avoid creating more terrorists, we must end the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict quickly
and in a way both sides see as fair..."
Read Murphy's column at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35106-2001Sep15.html
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(3) ABC News invited a Long Island Moslem leader,
Al-Haaj Ghazi Khankan, to conduct an
on-line chat "How Could This Happen?" (Sept. 15) ABC
News gave Al-Haaj Ghazi the air-
time to declare:
"We need to reexamine our foreign policy in the
world, especially in the sensitive
area of the Palestine question. We know from
statistics, for example, we have given
the Israeli governments, since 1949, $134 billion
and helped them take over the homes
of the Palestinian people, and made them refugees.
The U.S.-made F-16s and helicopters
that shoot rockets are being used by the Israelis to
kill more Palestinians. And so
the Palestinians think that we are in cahoots with
the Israelis against the
Palestinians."
Read the full ABCNews.com transcript:
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/community/DailyNews/chat_ghazi010915.htm
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(4) The New York Times' John Burns - "America
Inspires Both Longing and Loathing in
Arab World" (Sept. 16):
"There, bitter political grievances abound, among
them: the United States' support of
Israel; its troop presence in the 'holy land' of the
Arabian peninsula; its military
encirclement and economic strangulation of Iraq; and
its alliances with governments
across the Middle East and Asia that are widely
perceived as corrupt."
Read Burns' column at:
http://nytimes.com/2001/09/16/international/16AMER.html
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