Christian Science Monitor: Erasing Jewish Rights
August 26, 2009 17:13 by BackSpin EditorWalter Rodgers goes far beyond a simple debate over settlements. See HonestReporting's latest communique: Christian Science Monitor: Erasing Jewish Rights
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larry gartenstein
5:19 am
Aug 27, 2009
Does the christian science monitor employ journalists for their biasedness and sensationalism rather than the truth?
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johnz52
7:35 am
Aug 27, 2009
The only media bias in American mainstream media is the one for Israel. Israel denies bombing U.N. facilities and U.N. workers. Israel denies using phospherus bombs in Gaza. Israel denies shooting Palestinian women and children waving white flags. With all of these incidents accusations of anti-semitism are made by Israel. American media reiterates these B.S. claims like it’s the truth. That’s where the media bias lies. The Palestinians get scant coverage unless its a row between Fatah and Hamas. As far as Israel giving up Gaza, nothing could be further from the truth. Israel created the world’s largest prison in Gaza. Israel actions speak volumes and one only has to look at a 1948, 1967 and present day maps of Israel to see that Israelis are indeed nothing less than thieves bent on stealing as much land as they possibly can from the Palestinians and Syrians.
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Richard Pond
7:40 am
Aug 27, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor gets an F from me for this editorial. How can a writer who professes to be honest refuse to review the TRUTH that is found in Honest Reporting?? I bet the writer would refuse to debate what he has written with an editor from Honest Reporting???
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Ken Price, Ph.D.
8:05 am
Aug 27, 2009
You are much too kind to write that Rogers’ grasp on history is “tenuous.” I assume that Rogers, during 5 years in Israel, if not before and since, could have read a sufficient number of history tomes to inform himself about Mideast history. It’s not that he’s naive or uninformed. My bet is that he deliberately misinforms his readers, the same way he mis-reported on CNN (as I recall from the years when I watched CNN, which I no longer do), because his point of view is to support PLO thugs, Hamas murderers, Iranian theocratic terror Mullahs and assorted Arab dictatorships, while despising the one democratic, modern, Jewish State, which has contributed enormously to Western civilization and to U.S. national security. Let’s not be shy in calling him on his bias in favor of the Nazi-like Fatah and Hamas genocidal regimes and his falsification of history and current events in order to encourage the destruction of Israel by his Pal pals. Let’s demand that he admit he’s not a journalist, but a Der Sturmer-like propagandist for regimes that boast of their Jew-killing programmes. CNN admitted long ago that it refrained from reporting the truth about Hamas in order to maintain its access to Gaza, and to safeguard the lives of its “journalists.” It’s time that we demand that falsifiers of history and fabricators of lies denying the Arab aggression against Israel, such as Rogers, admit to their agendae and not hide behind the lie that they are journalists reporting reality.
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Ben Scheer
5:32 pm
Aug 27, 2009
This is just one more fine example of a “reporter”
not just getting the story and background of the
story wrong but is a shining example of a neo-nazi
thought process that is being used by a moron to
further his bank account as I am quite certain that
this idiot isn’t just an idiot but also a fine
example of what’s wrong with politics and reporting
as a whole ! Follow the money trail and the truth will
be known for what it actually is.
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douglas babcook
10:49 pm
Aug 27, 2009
CS MONITOR TRY USING FACT IN YOUR REPORTING.THAT IS WHY
MARK TWAIN SAID IF YOU DO NOT READ THE NEWSPAPER YOU ARE NOT INFORMED HOWEVER IF YOU READ THE NEWSPAPER YOU ARE MISINFORMED!!!
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normz53
12:39 am
Aug 28, 2009
Everyone has done a fine job of commenting on the Anti-Semite reporters, their employers and even Sweden. I’d like to tell johnz52 to put your white hood on your pointy head and go burn a cross on your klan’s lawn. MORON!
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norm grey
12:54 am
Aug 28, 2009
Hey, Mark Zuckerberg,
Why are you deciding that the Golan Heights are not part of Israel?
The Torah clearly states that area is part of the land that God gave to the Jewish people. You may know how to build a social network. But you don’t know the Bible. In the very beginning of the book of Prophets, Joshua lays down the borders of The Holy Land. And as dictated by God, he allots each tribe its territory. You’ll see that The Golan is Israel. All the “nations” laying claim to Israel didn’t exist when God charted The Holy Land. They’re all man-made.
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Andy Halmay
7:59 pm
Aug 31, 2009
I had been under the impression that The Christian Science Monitor was a responsible paper. I don’t know where I got that impression since I never read it. I must have had a mistaken notion that it had a good reputation. Obviously my notions and impressions were incorrect. Since all newspapers are presently in trouble I can assume that the CSM is in the same boat and if their allowing such obvious antisemitic lies to be published is representative of their overall approach to journalism then we can look forward with satisfaction to the boat sinking.
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shakaman
11:34 am
Sep 08, 2009
Regrettably, people like Rogers who think that by vilifying Israel under the pretext of defending the Arabs they are serving the purpose.We have some in Africa who without having a slightest idea of what the Israel/ Philistines crisis is all about dare talk or write in favor of the Arabs.
Israel shall overcome as long as it stands in the promises of our precious Lord to our patriarch Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Keep up the good work. Shalom.
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Paul Emmett
12:05 pm
Oct 22, 2009
At long last! What a relief! AFter the Holocaust, anti-Semitism had acquired an unpleasant taint among civilized nations. But now, it is back. It’s OK to hate the Jews again.
How hard it must have been, during the long, cold, winter of the post-Nazi era. How embarrassing, the Arab allegiance to Germany during the war, the pro-Nazi activities of the Mufti of Jerusalem, who organized Islamic SS units in the Balkans (he was Yasir Arafat’s uncle, I believe.)
But now, its safe to come out of the shadows. Now the Christian Science Monitor has always been notoriously hateful and unfair towards Israel.
But now, how nice to bask in the warmth of the bonfire. Were it not for the fact that these are the flames of Hell.
Look at the Arab educational materials: it is full of material that looks like it was crafted by the SS. Cartoons portraying caricatures of Jews in the Arab press, distortions and blood libels of old, the Protocols of the Eldres of Zion and Mein Kampf all enjoying a robust popularity in the Arab world. But no problem there either: blame it on the Jews!
I remember years ago talking to Israeli students in college. I would ask them what their vision for the region was. They would invariably voice a hope for a Switzerland type multiethnic confederation of cantons, or something like that. That was before the destruction of Lebanon.
I would ask the Arab students I knew. WHile some were at best non-committal, most voiced a hope that the streets of Tel Aviv would run red with the blood of Jews. The notable exception were Lebanese Christians, many of whom had family whose lives were protected by the Israelis.
That is the crux of the Middle East problem. Zionism is the 2000 year old national liberation movement of the Jewish people. As Martin Luther King said in a speech at Harvard University, when you are talking anti-zionism, you are talking anti semitism.
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PAthena
4:24 pm
Sep 16, 2010
Walter Rodgers is an ignoramus. “Palestinians” the “indigenous inhabitants” of Israel??He means by “Palestinians” Arabs, but the name “Palestine” was given to Judea by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135. after he had defeated the last Jewishh rebellion under Bar Kochba (and outlawed Judaism), in order to eradicate all memory of the Jews and Judaism. “Palestine” then became synonymous with “land of the Jews” or “the Holy Land” (since Jesus was a Jew), and Palestinian” became synonymous with “Jew.”: That is why the Zionists wanted the “Palestine Mandate” and Great Britain was awarded the “Palestine Mandate” after World War I as the “homeland of the Jews.”
Calling Arabs “Palestinian” is the consequence of Soviet propaganda, the Soviet Union and Gamal Nasser in Cairo in 1964 having invented “the Palestine Liberation Organization” with all the phony hoistory to go with it. Walter Rodgers, of course, did not need to know all this history since it is well-known that the land of Israel has been the land of the Jews for between 3000-4000 years. He is an anti-semitic liar.
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