I can’t add anything to this. I’m sure it has appeared in many blogs, but I want to make sure that everyone knows exactly what kind of savages we seem to have chosen for our allies in the Mideast.
From Khaleej Times (UAE), March 7:
RIYADH – A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes — for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Various sources report that Israel has stormed the Palestinian Military Intelligence headquarters in Ramallah and arrested 18 Palestinians:
In the West Bank town of Ramallah, about 100 Israeli Army vehicles surrounded the building in the early hours, with troops ordering people to come out before they moved in.
The Israeli Army said it had arrested 18 people who heeded its call through loudspeakers to surrender. The army said they were involved in shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers and in attempts to kidnap Israelis.
By Vic Rosenthal
National Public Radio (NPR) is a personal bête noir. I used to be a regular supporter of my local Public Radio station, but stopped because of what I felt was biased coverage of Israel and related issues from NPR. Organizations such as CAMERA and Honest Reporting have documented this bias for some time.
NPR was generally criticized on the basis of which events they chose to cover (they somehow ignored the 2002 Passover Seder Massacre in which Hamas murdered 30 people), and the relative amount of time they gave to pro- and anti-Israel voices. In response, NPR started providing free transcripts of their Mideast coverage from major news programs in 2002. They also appointed an ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, to deal with complaints about biased reporting.
So when I woke on February 27 to another anti-Israel segment from NPR’s Linda Gradstein, describing an Israeli incursion into Nablus [Shechem] on the West Bank, I planned to obtain the transcript and complain about it to the ombudsman. Unfortunately, as of today the transcript has not appeared (they usually are provided within a couple of days at most). And Dvorkin, the ombudsman, apparently doesn’t work there anymore. An automatic reply to my email of March 2 said that his assistant would read all mail until a new one was hired, but as of today I have received no response. I’ve transcribed it myself, and it appears below.
By Naomi Leitner
Naomi Leitner is an attorney in Israel.
Several stories have been carried in Israel’s media today and yesterday (March 5 – 6, 2007) concerning the passions being stirred up in Egypt over the documentary movie “Ruach Shaked” (The Spirit of Shaked) which was aired last week on Israel’s Channel 1.
The documentary examines the elite commando unit “Shaked”, including the fighting on the so-called “seventh day” of the 1967 Six-Day-War.
The most effective way to vilify Israel with progressive people is by accusing her of racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and so on. All of these accusations have to be somewhat creative because none of these characteristics actually apply to Israel in anything like their normal senses (indeed, Israel is one of the least racist societies around).
It’s worth pointing out, though, that they do apply quite well to Palestinians and other Arabs.
