Daily Mail’s Disgusting Letter
March 22, 2011 17:07 by Simon Plosker
The following letter appears in the March 21 print edition of the UK’s Daily Mail (not available online):
Tell the truth
It looks certain that the killing of an entire Jewish settlement family, reported in the media as an act of revenge by Palestinians, was in fact the work of a disgruntled worker who hadn’t been paid.
That Israeli troops have rounded up all Thai workers suggests that they know the truth but, true to form, they couldn’t possibly say that the Palestinians were wrongly accused. I’d like to think the media institutions who were so ready to use the murders to justify their patronage of Israel will issue the proper corrections and apologies. I’m not holding my breath.
Derek F. Wharton, Wirral
Actually, the only apology should be from the Daily Mail for publishing such a letter in the first place. This letter’s source was a discredited story published by the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency.
In fact, there are no foreign workers in the settlement of Itamar and the Fogel family home was built by Jewish laborers.
How disgusting that the Daily Mail should publish such a letter without even bothering to check the allegations. Looks like anything goes when it comes to “acceptable” criticism of Israel in the British press.
Send your considered comments to the Daily Mail – letters@dailymail.co.uk
Jan Price
7:58 pm
Mar 22, 2011
This is the second bigotted and ill-informed letter on this incident which the Daily Mail letters’ page has published from this person, Derek F Wharton. Surely the editor has received other, less extreme, and more balanced views which have could have been expressed and published?
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nathalie
1:49 am
Mar 23, 2011
derek you are sick , go to see a docteur, you are crazy and it is your choice to write such a thing like that, its your choice to decide to be so bad , so injuste and heart people . this is horrible,, i haven t got word for describe this HORROR that you wrote, i really hope that you will be punished for this horror, this lies . .i dont know what inside your head ??but its sure that i pray for see the justice , the justice of god , this is love , truth , not so diabolic like what you are ,and what you wrote . you are a digusting man
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Sergio I.N.
2:26 pm
Mar 23, 2011
I can only relate this kind of rhetoric to another Derek that constantly appears in the commentaries of Melanie Phillips’ blog, nicknamed Derek BLADES (his capitals).
Could there be any relation?
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Brian Metcalf
2:36 am
Mar 24, 2011
PERFIDIOUS ALBION
Derek Wharton’s letter 21 March is based on a discredited story by the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency. There are no foreign workers in the settlement of Itamar and the Fogel family home was built by Jewish labourers. Your paper failed to check this out because Britain is pickled in antisemitism and Israel-bashing is the pop-media’s default position. The paradox is that Israel has Britain to thank for its very existence because of the Christian convictions of most of its top military in 1917 who believed in the return of the Jews to the Region of Palestine. It seems that Britons are totally unaware of this and have largely forsworn their Christian values in favour of encouraging everyone else’s.
Brian Metcalf 35 Waller Avenue, Bucklands Beach, Auckland 2012, New Zealand
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Thank You Louise Bagshawe : Israellycool
11:18 am
Mar 24, 2011
[...] to the point where they can butcher sleeping babies. While not directly reporting this as fact, the UK’s Daily Mail unconscionably printed this lie by publishing a letter putting the theory forward. They should be ashamed of [...]
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Gary Norwood
5:11 pm
Mar 31, 2011
It looks like Mr Wharton has a history of anti-Israeli rants. A quick google search turned up his name on this ipetitions site; http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fairtradefarmersfrompalestine/signatures?page=6
His entry is No.291.
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Gary Norwood
5:21 pm
Mar 31, 2011
Here’s Derek F Wharton again putting his name to a petition calling for an academic boycott of Israel;http://www.ccun.org/Opinion%20Editorials/2009/November/21%20o/Petition%20To%20Board%20of%20Directors%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Trondheim%20Voting%20to%20Academically%20Boycott%20Israel%20By%20Mohamed%20Khodr.htm
His signature is No. 446. Looks like it includes his e-mail address.
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John Bradford
11:23 am
Aug 05, 2011
“In fact, there are no foreign workers in the settlement of Itamar and the Fogel family home was built by Jewish laborers.”
No foreign workers in Itamar? What about Israeli settlers, since Itamar is not in Israel, and never will be, surely they’re foreign?
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Brian Metcalf
1:19 am
Aug 06, 2011
Can you please remove my address from the bottom of my comment of 24 March.
I don’t particularly want to be targetted by the Israel Hating elitist L-W Lobby of Closet Muslims !
I sent it originally to a NZ newspaper Letters to the Editor which required the usual “full name and address”. It didn’t get published. Similar problem here.
Appreciated
Brian
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