I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
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British Interference In Jerusalem
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In some unbelievably outrageous news, Arutz 7 is reporting that Britain is funding organizations that buy up land in Jerusalem for Arabs, so as to stem the Jewish population tide, or as admitted by a British diplomat, to “halt Israeli expansion”:
Israel is awaiting clarifications from Britain regarding a British diplomat’s remarks that his country was funding Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem to “halt Israeli expansion,” Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Friday.
Speaking in an interview for Regional Radio, Ayalon said that the Foreign Ministry still does not know how accurate the British diplomat’s statement was, and that “the British Ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for clarifications on the matter, including sending messages to London, that we will not accept these things, of course – not the funding of various organizations or things that have to do with internal politics and Israel’s internal affairs.”
Meddling in Israel’s internal matters is unacceptable, Ayalon said. “I am sure the British would not want us to interfere in their [internal affairs],” he added. “Israel sees this with great gravity and I assume that it will cease soon.”
The inflammatory statements were made on July 22 by the diplomat Martin Day, who is based in Abu Dhabi, to Al-Arabiyatelevision. According to a transcript of the interview, Day told the station, in Arabic, that the British government was “taking practical steps towards freezing settlement activities.”
“For instance,” Day said, “we finance projects aimed at halting settlement activities. One of these projects seeks to build new Palestinian neighborhoods in east Jerusalem and save Palestinian houses from demolition.” In addition, Day said, “we also finance organizations that monitor settlement activities.”
He added that “products from the settlements do not enjoy preferential custom duties that we offer to products coming from Israel. In light of this, we can say that we are taking effective and practical steps against settlement activities.”
This bizarre and outrage display of one country meddling into the affairs of another and attempting to disrupt or influence Israeli politics is absolutely inexcusable. Imagine if, back in the day, Israel were funding Irish terrorists? Could you imagine the global outcry at such interference? Where’s the outcry here?