Heads Roll at BBC; Scandal Looms Over NY Times
November 12, 2012 16:01 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. We’re up to 140 rockets fired at Israel in two days. The Jerusalem Post reports 26 people being treated for shock when a Grad rocket struck a building in Netivot. According to the Times of Israel, the government’s laying the diplomatic groundwork for a possible escalation.
2. For the second consecutive day, an errant Syrian shell landed in Israeli territ0ry, prompting the IDF to fire back a warning shot.
3. Heads continued rolling at the BBC. Helen Boaden, “stepped aside” as the news director.
Not only that, Lord Robert McAlpine, who Newsnight falsely accused of being pedophile, is considering taking legal action — not just against the Beeb, but against Twitter users who named him. The most notable of the twitterers, Sally Bercow and The Guardian’s George Monbiot have already apologized. Monbiot elaborated on his blog.
The Jimmy Savile scandal’s spilling over to NY Times, where former Beeb boss Mark Thompson is taking over as the paper’s CEO. Joe Hagan reports:
He does not arrive with the full confidence of the Times’ journalists.
“People are going to start paying closer attention, and that probably isn’t good for newsroom morale,” says one Timesman, “because there’s now a widely held sense that this guy’s story doesn’t add up.”
If you’re following the Beeb’s fall more closely, Poynter rounds up more worthwhile links.
Israel and the Palestinians
• The JPost and AFP talked to long-suffering residents of Sderot:
“Things like this ruin your life. Every time my son hears a ‘Code Red’ [rocket siren] it takes years off my life,” he said.
• Will the fighting escalate? Israeli journalists Yaakov Lappin, Yoav Limor, Mitch Ginsburg and Ron Ben-Yishai all weigh in. The Wall Street Journal‘s Josh Mitnick nicely ties together the Gaza and Syrian fronts. See also Jeffrey Goldberg.
• ”Tit-for-tat” references are a tip-off that the journalist is either lazy or uninterested in making a moral judgment about how the fight started. Case in point: Voice of America‘s Robert Berger:
But with tit-for tat attacks across the border, neither side is backing down.
• AFP: In a phone call to Mahmoud Abbas, President Obama said he opposed the PA’s statehood push in the UN. But Abbas rebuffed the president.
• I’ve heard claims that Jesus was a Palestinian, but PA television has gone even further: Jesus was the first Islamic martyr in history.
• NY Times staff-ed to President Obama: Don’t forget the Mideast:
Many are pessimistic that anything can be done about an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal as long as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in office and Palestinians are divided between Fatah and Hamas. It would be a mistake for Mr. Obama to cross this challenge off his list. He needs to keep seeking openings to promote the two-state solution.
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Leonard Kahn
7:26 pm
Nov 12, 2012
How can heads roll at either the BBC or the New York times ?? Impossible–it’s up their asses.
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Moll
8:05 pm
Nov 12, 2012
Re: Stories 1,2&3 —
The G-d of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob caused it to be written in His WORD, that He would “bless those who bless ISRAEL [whether individual OR as a collective], and He would curse those who curse ISRAEL” (Gen.12:3) and that “God’s Judgment Day is near for all the godless nations. As you have done [to the jews, either individually or collectively], it will be done to you. What you did [to the jews, either individually or collectively] will boomerang back and hit your own head…”(Obadiah 1:15).
King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, wrote “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”(Proverbs 9:10).
Think Twice BEFORE you act! Actions have consequences.
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Kibbitzer
10:01 pm
Nov 12, 2012
Wow, J.C. was a Muslim 700 years before Islam was invented. Now that’s a miracle!!
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Paul Tenenbaum
10:27 pm
Nov 12, 2012
If the P.A. has no other “spokesman” than this imbecile, the truly matters will remain as they are.
Abbas on one hand indicates that he is willing to wotk with Israel, on the other hand some shoot themselves in the foot. Next thing we’ll hear that the Pharaos of Egypt were Muslims.
It is regrettable that people like him can convince other people in that area to actually believe that Jesus was not a Jew.
In retrospect, when the Arabs did not accept th 1948 peace proposition, Israelis should have annexed the entire area, with certain “enclaves” within that territory.
Unfortunately we have to live with reality.
Tenpa
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BUTSeriously
4:00 am
Nov 13, 2012
Jesus an Islamic martyr!? False! Jesus passed away in 31. The name Palestine was dumped on Judea [not an Islamic or Arab land!] – 100 years later. So Jesus could not be a Palestinian – he was a Jew. This name was applied to Jews exclusively for 2,000 years – it was hijacked by an Egyptian born terrorist named Arafat in 1955; Jordan changed the name of Samaria [a Hebrew cty!] to ‘WEST BANK’ in 1955. Jerusalem is a Hebrew name & city – Hebron is the birthplace of Judaism.
A? KAFFIR IS ONE WHO LIES OPENLY BEFORE THE WORLD WITH NO FEAR OF HEAVEN.
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Jeffrey Nakar
4:03 pm
Nov 13, 2012
How could Jesus be an Islamic martyr 700 years before Islam. Jesus was actually a Jewish nationalist who opposed foreign occupation. If he was alive today, my guess is that he would be a settler and probably quite a militant one. After all, he was born in the Jewish town of Bethlehem. Nowadays he would not be allowed to live there. Just how and when did his home town become Arab?
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Andrew
4:52 pm
Nov 13, 2012
well well, they want Israel, Jerusalem, the world and now they are willing to change people’s nationalities to Palestinian, wow, how blind can people be, in fact, how deceived are people really going to become before He comes and settles the whole matter, I for one would not want to counted among those who teach such blatant lies as the judgement written fothem is terrible. I am an ‘Aussie”. …… boy, I hope we don’t become another palestine, couldn’t handle the whinging victim mentality
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dany
5:38 pm
Nov 13, 2012
The fact that Arabs, muslims or christians, lie as much as they breath is no secret to us and to themselves, what is mind boggling is that the rest of the world accepts their lies and are ready to demonize the people that suffer from these lies.
Jesus a Palestinian? How about Buddha! Perhaps Apollo? Zeus? anyone else?
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dany
5:42 pm
Nov 13, 2012
You nare right to fear that Australia will become another Palestine hoax, look at all European countries, they already are
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