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 [...]
Netanyahu Warns: Accepting Goldstone Will End The Peace Process
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In a justifiably bold move, Netanyahu announced today that if the Goldstone Report is accepted and endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council following the vote tomorrow by the 47 member countries of the council, the peace process is effectively over.
He said in a televised speech, “I hope a majority [of the Council] will come to their senses… if a majority is found to negate this report, it will avoid this severe blow, but if not, the responsibility will be on those countries who didn’t pull themselves together in time.”
In that speech he pointed out the three main repercussions of accepting such a mockery of a report:
- It would legitimize the Hamas terrorist practice of attacking civilian targets while hiding behind other civilians.
- It would deal a severe blow to the UN status and respectability (not that it’s exactly riding a high lately anyway), reducing it to a body of countries making “absurd” decisions.
- It would deal a mortal blow to the peace process by discouraging Israel from taking any further risks for peace for fear that it will not receive international support when the need to defend itself arises.
Here is the video of the speech:
Raymond Arking
[...] This strong statement was previously made by Netanyahu when the report first came out (see my recent post about it) with the logical and understandable explanation that endorsing such a report only serves to [...]