Secretary of State Kerry’s interview with the NY Times gave the impression that the Obama administration considers Hezbollah a militia. I know that is not the case, as President Obama called Hezbollah a terrorist organization. With the NY Times, Newsday, ABC Wold News, NBC News, CBS News, and most of the national news media calling Hezbollah a militia, they put them in the category as the Minutemen of the American Revolution, and the modern day National Guard. It is important that Honest Reporting’s readers tell any member of the news media calling Hezbollah a militia to explain themselves. I had sent emails to the NY Times, Newsday, and to ABC World News.com.
Hezbollah is a terroist organization just like Hamas and the Palestinian autorithy (at mild level).
I’m and Israeli (and Australian) who leaves in Israel. We are back in our state forever, and we will fight for it. All my family and myself served in the IDF which we consider to be the most moral army in the world. Despite my release from the army should it call me, I will answer.
No terrorist organization is going to drive us out of Israel. No media or pressure will change our firm stand for our home. We are here forever.
The differences between Juadism and Korean can summerize as follows. Muslim: “We shall deliver Muhamad tora by sowrd”, meaning we will kill all the none muslims.
The Arab League is suggesting a landswap. But they are the ones who propelled all the problems that Israel and the Palestinians are suffering from today. It is the League that in 1948 ordered Arab armies into Israel and ordered the Palestinian residents to get out of the path of the Arab armies in other words to flee, it is the League that in revenge for the Arab army defeats ordered the expulsion and expropriation of Jewish properties in ten Arab countries.
So today, if the League is speaking of land swaps, maybe they can help correct their past crimes by arranging for the Palestinians who may wish to take advantage by swapping on a ten to one ratio Jewish Arab lands for Palestinian lands
What I find particularly alarming is that major players in both right and left wing media, propagandise against Israel. Public opinion largely being a construct of media demagogues, and serving the interests of their paymasters, it is necessary that as many as see through the one dimensional and falsified narrative of Israel, speak out against the mainstream media’s blind acceptance of Islamist claims at face value. I am grateful to find yet another site where voices friendly to Israel can be ‘heard’, as it were. Thank you, keep up the good work.
Slowly, national leaders of various countries (i.e. Canada) are blasting the international news media for swallowing the terrorists’ lies about how Israel treats its non-Jewish citizens. It is important that the international news media (newspapers, television, and radio) inform their public about the truth. There will always be those who say, “don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up”. As an American, I am asking – no, pleading with all intelligent readers to keep the pressure on the news media to be honest about the situation in the Middle East. It is very important that the news media label Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and not as a militant organization.
It’s taken hasbara 13 years to get around to discovering that the al Dura photo was a fake. Who cares now? It’s taken hasbara 65 years and nothing has been done about the outrage, far greater than the Palestine refugee fable, that of the expulsion of the 850,000 Jews from Arab countries. The Arabs cunningly set the scene back in 1902 by hustling into Palestine assorted fellaheen and, of course more came with the British. But we’ve been sold a fable about the Arab ancestral home and never managed to let the world know that it is a fable or that the Jews from Arab countries were expelled after up to 2600 years. Where’s the hasbara??
Here is the best explanation I’ve ever read: David & Goliath: The explosive inside story of media bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Shraga Simmons. (ISBN 97809844039814The “media” turned on Israel because they perceive the Arabs–the so-called Palestinians–as the underdogs and the world loves to root for underdogs. I’ve been reading his book on my Kindle HD and I can only read a few pages at a time or I’ll have another stroke! Another book I feel is as important is “Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews” by Richard L. Cravatts. (ISBN 9780615566382).
My personal way of combating the lies is showing videos and PowerPoint presentations to Jew-haters.
Whilst Pesach does a great job putting IDNS together including the daily summary, is it (IDNS) a personal blog or is it HR’s summary for the day, to wit:
I’m glad to see news services like the BBC, NY Times, and AP picked up on Nisman’s findings.
(part of summary dated 30th May 2013)
Great to see news…… or something similar is more appropriate!
Despite Honest Reporting’s requests, my requests, as well as those of others, most of the national news media continue calling Hezbollah a militant organization, instead of what it really is – a terrorist organization. Today, ABC News.com reported that Syria and Hezbollah joined forces to capture a rebel stronghold. I just sent ABC News.com a strongly worded email stating that “…it is disgusting that ABC does not call Hezbollah a terrorist organization.” While viewing ABC News.com on line, their reporter stated that Syria is a strong supporter of terrorism – I am paraphrasing. I repeated my request to ABC News that it owes its viewers an explanation for refusing to face reality.
On a hunch, I reread some material on the Royalist Americans who, during the 1776 American Revolutionary War, chose rather to throw their fates in with the British rather than their American compatriots. At war’s end, regarded as DESERTERS, they were forced to remain in Canada.
It suggests a certain parallel to me, that of the Palestinian Arabs who fled in the 1948-49 hostilities AND who regard themselves as refugees. I think that, at the very least, they should similarly be regarded as DESERTERS. The real 1948-67 refugees were the 850,000 Jews from ten Arab countries: threatened with massacre, properties expropriated, and indeed made refugees now more than half of Israel’s Jews.
I am responding to Honest Reporting’s article that Israel is sending arms to Arab countries, which do not have diplomatic relations with Israel – foreign policy for most countries is “smoke and mirrors.” Most people understand that what governments (including Israel) say and do publicly, do not reflect realities.
Of course they do but they like to read this type of “nothing new” information and say “well what do you know!!” making it a good subject of weekend conversation between friends and family.
you guys need to petition the NYtimes for NOT covering news such as in the report attached here. instead, the NYtimes keeps clinging to the “”coflict” / hamatzav, as we call it. let them know the readership out here in the real world is watching them.
todah rabbah for all you do ! it IS a war !
amir
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Dear HonestReporting,
I am amazed that Google doesn’t acknowledge your website and address. Your CEO Joe Hyams sent out a special message that I couldn’t access. I am a retired newsman who worked over 30 years, mostly at Israel Radio’s English News section as an Editor’/Reporter, Economic Reporter, Announcer, Producer and Acting Head. I applaud your efforts to present an accurate picture of the news, but you face an uphill task because most of the international media are objective against Israel. It is obscene that 65 years after its birth Israel has no recognised borders: the June 4, 1967 lines were armistice lines, but that is what most countries assume is Israel. The United States does n
Mark Zobler
6:26 pm
May 23, 2013
Secretary of State Kerry’s interview with the NY Times gave the impression that the Obama administration considers Hezbollah a militia. I know that is not the case, as President Obama called Hezbollah a terrorist organization. With the NY Times, Newsday, ABC Wold News, NBC News, CBS News, and most of the national news media calling Hezbollah a militia, they put them in the category as the Minutemen of the American Revolution, and the modern day National Guard. It is important that Honest Reporting’s readers tell any member of the news media calling Hezbollah a militia to explain themselves. I had sent emails to the NY Times, Newsday, and to ABC World News.com.
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Shimon
8:20 am
May 28, 2013
Hi,
Hezbollah is a terroist organization just like Hamas and the Palestinian autorithy (at mild level).
I’m and Israeli (and Australian) who leaves in Israel. We are back in our state forever, and we will fight for it. All my family and myself served in the IDF which we consider to be the most moral army in the world. Despite my release from the army should it call me, I will answer.
No terrorist organization is going to drive us out of Israel. No media or pressure will change our firm stand for our home. We are here forever.
The differences between Juadism and Korean can summerize as follows. Muslim: “We shall deliver Muhamad tora by sowrd”, meaning we will kill all the none muslims.
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M.Sphardi
7:38 pm
May 23, 2013
The Arab League is suggesting a landswap. But they are the ones who propelled all the problems that Israel and the Palestinians are suffering from today. It is the League that in 1948 ordered Arab armies into Israel and ordered the Palestinian residents to get out of the path of the Arab armies in other words to flee, it is the League that in revenge for the Arab army defeats ordered the expulsion and expropriation of Jewish properties in ten Arab countries.
So today, if the League is speaking of land swaps, maybe they can help correct their past crimes by arranging for the Palestinians who may wish to take advantage by swapping on a ten to one ratio Jewish Arab lands for Palestinian lands
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Martin Tillier
2:37 am
May 27, 2013
What I find particularly alarming is that major players in both right and left wing media, propagandise against Israel. Public opinion largely being a construct of media demagogues, and serving the interests of their paymasters, it is necessary that as many as see through the one dimensional and falsified narrative of Israel, speak out against the mainstream media’s blind acceptance of Islamist claims at face value. I am grateful to find yet another site where voices friendly to Israel can be ‘heard’, as it were. Thank you, keep up the good work.
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Irv Dain
12:25 am
May 28, 2013
Nothing seems to change
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Mark Zobler
6:29 pm
May 29, 2013
Slowly, national leaders of various countries (i.e. Canada) are blasting the international news media for swallowing the terrorists’ lies about how Israel treats its non-Jewish citizens. It is important that the international news media (newspapers, television, and radio) inform their public about the truth. There will always be those who say, “don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up”. As an American, I am asking – no, pleading with all intelligent readers to keep the pressure on the news media to be honest about the situation in the Middle East. It is very important that the news media label Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and not as a militant organization.
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M.Sphardi
1:38 am
May 28, 2013
It’s taken hasbara 13 years to get around to discovering that the al Dura photo was a fake. Who cares now? It’s taken hasbara 65 years and nothing has been done about the outrage, far greater than the Palestine refugee fable, that of the expulsion of the 850,000 Jews from Arab countries. The Arabs cunningly set the scene back in 1902 by hustling into Palestine assorted fellaheen and, of course more came with the British. But we’ve been sold a fable about the Arab ancestral home and never managed to let the world know that it is a fable or that the Jews from Arab countries were expelled after up to 2600 years. Where’s the hasbara??
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Beverly Margolis-Kurtin
10:35 pm
May 28, 2013
Here is the best explanation I’ve ever read: David & Goliath: The explosive inside story of media bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Shraga Simmons. (ISBN 97809844039814The “media” turned on Israel because they perceive the Arabs–the so-called Palestinians–as the underdogs and the world loves to root for underdogs. I’ve been reading his book on my Kindle HD and I can only read a few pages at a time or I’ll have another stroke! Another book I feel is as important is “Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews” by Richard L. Cravatts. (ISBN 9780615566382).
My personal way of combating the lies is showing videos and PowerPoint presentations to Jew-haters.
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Avi Paluch
8:30 pm
May 30, 2013
Whilst Pesach does a great job putting IDNS together including the daily summary, is it (IDNS) a personal blog or is it HR’s summary for the day, to wit:
I’m glad to see news services like the BBC, NY Times, and AP picked up on Nisman’s findings.
(part of summary dated 30th May 2013)
Great to see news…… or something similar is more appropriate!
Respectfully, Avi
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7:47 am
Jun 01, 2013
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Mark Zobler
10:47 pm
Jun 05, 2013
Despite Honest Reporting’s requests, my requests, as well as those of others, most of the national news media continue calling Hezbollah a militant organization, instead of what it really is – a terrorist organization. Today, ABC News.com reported that Syria and Hezbollah joined forces to capture a rebel stronghold. I just sent ABC News.com a strongly worded email stating that “…it is disgusting that ABC does not call Hezbollah a terrorist organization.” While viewing ABC News.com on line, their reporter stated that Syria is a strong supporter of terrorism – I am paraphrasing. I repeated my request to ABC News that it owes its viewers an explanation for refusing to face reality.
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M.Sphardi
11:29 pm
Jun 05, 2013
On a hunch, I reread some material on the Royalist Americans who, during the 1776 American Revolutionary War, chose rather to throw their fates in with the British rather than their American compatriots. At war’s end, regarded as DESERTERS, they were forced to remain in Canada.
It suggests a certain parallel to me, that of the Palestinian Arabs who fled in the 1948-49 hostilities AND who regard themselves as refugees. I think that, at the very least, they should similarly be regarded as DESERTERS. The real 1948-67 refugees were the 850,000 Jews from ten Arab countries: threatened with massacre, properties expropriated, and indeed made refugees now more than half of Israel’s Jews.
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Mark Zobler
9:11 pm
Jun 12, 2013
I am responding to Honest Reporting’s article that Israel is sending arms to Arab countries, which do not have diplomatic relations with Israel – foreign policy for most countries is “smoke and mirrors.” Most people understand that what governments (including Israel) say and do publicly, do not reflect realities.
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Geoffrey Laurence Rogg
9:22 pm
Jun 12, 2013
Of course they do but they like to read this type of “nothing new” information and say “well what do you know!!” making it a good subject of weekend conversation between friends and family.
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amir burstein
5:48 pm
Jun 13, 2013
you guys need to petition the NYtimes for NOT covering news such as in the report attached here. instead, the NYtimes keeps clinging to the “”coflict” / hamatzav, as we call it. let them know the readership out here in the real world is watching them.
todah rabbah for all you do ! it IS a war !
amir
____________________________________________________Foreig
it’s about the number of people killed in syria.
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Harley Braidman
11:04 am
Jun 14, 2013
Dear HonestReporting,
I am amazed that Google doesn’t acknowledge your website and address. Your CEO Joe Hyams sent out a special message that I couldn’t access. I am a retired newsman who worked over 30 years, mostly at Israel Radio’s English News section as an Editor’/Reporter, Economic Reporter, Announcer, Producer and Acting Head. I applaud your efforts to present an accurate picture of the news, but you face an uphill task because most of the international media are objective against Israel. It is obscene that 65 years after its birth Israel has no recognised borders: the June 4, 1967 lines were armistice lines, but that is what most countries assume is Israel. The United States does n
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