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 [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
Palestinians Rewrite Jerusalem History—And No One Cares
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Bari Weiss wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal last week decrying the history of Jerusalem being rewritten quite openly by the Palestinians to no one’s apparent concern.
She describes how Palestinian textbooks and guidebooks always acknowledged the importance of Jerusalem to the Jewish nation until recent decades when the Palestinians quite openly (and virtually unchallenged by anyone) decided to remove all such acknowledgments from their media and instead to go so far as to call such claims “lies”.
This is done quite simply “to undermine Israel, which earned statehood in 1948 and captured the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six Day War of 1967. Since then, Palestinian leaders have fought to erase any Jewish connection to sacred places, particularly the Temple Mount.”
In my opinion, the most important paragraph of that piece is toward the beginning, when she states that:
As President Barack Obama and his foreign-policy team gear up to propose yet another plan for Israeli-Arab peace, they would do well to focus less on important but secondary issues like settlement growth, and instead notice that top Palestinian intellectual and political leaders deny basic truths about the region’s most important city.
This should be stated even more forcefully. Yes, she ends the piece with the sentence, “this is no foundation for ‘peace talks‘,” but I feel that this is an issue of huge importance that does not garner nearly enough attention in the global spotlight. Why is it that the Palestinians are permitted to rewrite history like this? Why does no one care that an entire generation of Palestinians are growing up learning that the Jewish link to Jerusalem is a “lie”?
At least some attention (of course, not nearly enough) is given to their Holocaust revisionism, but why does this related brand of revisionism go virtually unnoticed?
If Obama—or anyone, for that matter—is serious about peace, this is one major topic that needs to be addressed and, even more so, should be at the forefront of the agenda. After all, how long will peace really last with the Palestinians when their entire next generation is indoctrinated to see the Jews as supposed chronic liars?