IDNS: Palestinian Censors Mute Townhall Meeting
September 13, 2012 15:39 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories:
1. It turns out that Israel had no connection to the film at the heart of yesterday’s embassy attacks. First, Jeffrey Goldberg began fact-checking what we thought we knew about “Sam Bacile,” the video’s alleged Israeli writer and director. Then, AP tracked down Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who was involved in “Innocence of Islam.”
Nakoula told the AP that he was a Coptic Christian and said the film’s director supported the concerns of Christian Copts about their treatment by Muslims.
In a followup post, Goldberg slammed AP and the Wall Street Journal — for endangering Jewish lives by not fact-checking “Sam Bacile” and his alleged Jewish connections:
So, if this is true, then a group of Christians, or at least one Christian, eager to slander Muslims have endangered Jews. How so? The story that “Sam Bacile” is an Israeli Jew, with “100 Jewish donors,” has spread across the Middle East. It is not possible to withdraw such a story. The onus for violence is on the people who commit violence, of course. But if true, this fiction that the anti-Muhammad movie was a Jewish production is cowardly and despicable. Alas, “Sam Bacile” could not have spread the apparent fiction that Jews were behind this film without the help of the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal, which both reported, without independently checking, “Sam Bacile”s claim to be Israeli.
More on this point at Anti-Islam Movie Draws False Israel Linkage.
2. PA TV censors muted a live broadcast town-hall meeting when participants were too critical of the PA leadership. Even the mother of two martyrs gets no respect. Back-story and transcript at Palestinian Media Watch.
3. US judge gives green light to a lawsuit against Hamas’ bankers. Reuters has more on the case of Mati Gill vs. Arab Bank.
Embassy Attacks
• The bad news mushrooms with more attacks.
- US troops ambushed en route to rescue trapped diplomats in Benghazi.
- Protesters storm US embassy in Yemen.
- Clashes continue outside US embassy in Cairo.
• Emerging details indicate that the attacks weren’t spontaneous:
- Deadly embassy attacks were days in the making.
- Libya consulate attack came after militants joined protesters, say witnesses, officials.
• Kudos to Poynter for a very nice roundup of what info about “Innocence of Islam” is confirmed.
• The NY Times is taking heat for publishing a slideshow which includes this AFP photo of an apparently unconscious Ambassador Stevens being dragged through the streets. The NYT denied a State Dept. request to remove the image.
• Care to guess who wrote this thought-provoking snippet? You’ll be surprised:
A New Zealand editor once proudly told me how his own newspaper had re-published the cartoon of the Prophet with a bomb-filled turban. But when I asked him if he planned to publish a cartoon of a Rabbi with a bomb on his head next time Israel invaded Lebanon, he hastily agreed with me that this would be anti-Semitic.
There’s the rub, of course. Some things are off limits, and rightly so.
DJKuulA
4:53 pm
Sep 13, 2012
The photo of the ambassador being dragged through the street is another example of jumping to conclusions — it was initially reported as the mob desecrating his body, when in reality it was Good Samaritans trying to get him to the hospital.
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USA ambassades aangevallen in Egypte, Libie (4 doden) , Marokko en Tunesie, wegens preview film over Mohammed | tora-yeshua.nl | Tora Yeshua | tora-yeshua.nl
5:14 pm
Sep 13, 2012
[...] zijn en is het niet duidelijk of deze man Israelisch is. Hier een stevig protest daartegen: http://honestreporting.com/israel-daily-news-stream-09132012/ , Israel neemt het AP (Associated Press) en de Wall Street Journal kwalijk, dat ze de bron niet [...]
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Ben
6:48 pm
Sep 13, 2012
I think Honest Reporting should initiate a lawsuit against the AP and the Wall Street Journal for libel.
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Moll
7:44 pm
Sep 13, 2012
There is a difference between “nonstate” & “state” actors. The tribal arabs in judea, samaria and gaza, are “nonstate” actors. Why would a sovereign “state” pay attention to the squeakings of nonstate actors? i.e., the Geneva Conventions, the International Courts of Law in the Hague, International Water Treaties, are agreed to amongst sovereign “states”. Nonstate actors, like the tribal arabs in judea, samaria & gaza have no status. Why would any sovereign “state” pay any attention to what they say or do? BDS is a curse on all individual “nonstate” actors who buy into it. Noises made by individual citizens, religious organizations, citizens of various “states” become “irrelevant” BS.
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Henry Federman
8:42 pm
Sep 13, 2012
It may be true that the anti islam movie was produced by an Egyptian Copt but you’ll never convince the majority of Arabs who have a powerful propaganda and also by the liberal press who love to antagonize Israel no matter what the subject is,they’ll find a way to stick Israel’s name in there somehow. I’ve read comments saying that if the US was not helping Israel there would be peace. What has Israel got to do with the attack in Libya and Cairo? Nothing! But they go ahead blame Israel .
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Paul Tenenbaum
9:04 pm
Sep 13, 2012
It has been many years that I learned some Nederlandsch, but I believe you notes are not in favor of Israel. If you are against Israel you are probably a remnent of Quisling.
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Steve Edelman
4:15 pm
Sep 14, 2012
It is with deep regret that a President of the U.S,. blames his opposing candidate
for speaking out, while he and his awful foreign policy has caused more disruptions in the Middle East as he shows signs of weakness. The Arab Spring and the Iranian Nuclear menace
will prove that he is as much a leader, as MICKEY MOUSE., although
Mickey is far more respected in the World……..
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Henry Federman
5:19 pm
Sep 14, 2012
I don’t believe that all those sudden demonstrations in Libya,Egypt,Kuwait and Sudan were not coordinated by Iran to take pressure off all those talks of war and nuclear inspections. They have nothing to lose as long as they are not involved personally. Create problems so they can continue to go ahead with their nuclear programme. The movie on islam is over a month old and it popped up all of a sudden and all those countries without speaking to one another decided to attack American embassies. Are we that naïve?
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Jerry c
9:57 pm
Sep 14, 2012
Cltv news Chicago is still reporting as fact that The uprising in the middle east is caused by an “Israeli American business man producing an anti Islam movie Outrageous
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Jeffrey Nakar
3:56 pm
Sep 16, 2012
What Henry Federman says is very interesting. That is exactly what happened with the Danish “anti-Islamic” cartoons. The protests started on the day that Iran was due to be debated at the UN, months after the cartoons were actually published. Just how much of a fifth column has Iran established around the world? Perhaps it is not surprising that they have been able to orchestrate trouble in the Arab world, but Australia and Malaysia?
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Henry Federman
7:01 pm
Sep 16, 2012
This so called anti Islam movie is only an excuse for Iran to push their propaganda, like Jeffrey says but it is not a fifth column it is Hezbollah and Al Qaida that Iran pushes to cause trouble. I would love to be able to listen to Tehran television comments to hear the propaganda they feed their people and also read their newspapers, the anti American comments must have a ball with it. I just heard Susan Rice our ambassador to the UN saying that it not anti American that they are angry about but only to the film that film that causes the problem, does anybody believes that!
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