Oops…The Guardian Acknowledges Jerusalem’s Old City is in Israel
July 19, 2012 13:33 by Simon PloskerThe Guardian usually goes to great lengths to portray Jerusalem and more specifically, the Old City as not being a legitimate part of Israel. Instead, The Guardian (and many other media outlets) refer to “East Jerusalem” as a “settlement” beyond the 1967 borders and therefore “illegally occupied.”
When it comes to the status of Jerusalem, The Guardian’s style guide even states: “Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel; Tel Aviv is,” a shocking assertion ultimately backed up by the UK’s Press Complaints Commission.
But has The Guardian quietly relented? After all, what could be more iconic than a photo of Jerusalem’s Old City and the Temple Mount? And what could be a clearer indication of Israeli sovereignty than using such a photo to illustrate a story about Israel with no mention whatsoever of the Palestinians?
Is this an error? If so, this is one “error” that we won’t be asking The Guardian to correct. But just how long will it take before The Guardian replaces the photo above with a more suitable one?
Expect to see an image of Tel Aviv very soon.
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Empress Trudy
4:57 pm
Jul 19, 2012
Someone’s getting stoned to death over that one. Allahu Briqbat.
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Nigel
5:24 pm
Jul 19, 2012
“a more suitable one” You have inadvertently erred by suggesting the picture is not actually suitable. It must be catching.
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RedStar
3:33 am
Jul 20, 2012
and you miss sarcasm…
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Seymour Baskin
5:30 pm
Jul 19, 2012
The BBC was a respected news station for international news. It has come to my attention that the powers to be at BBC have taken a political slant and has discount=d thousands of years of history regarding the Jewish ( Hebrew) residing in that part of the world. It has been documented archeologically of their involvement with the land. Is it possible that someone has taken a bribe?
I now consider the BBC as untrustworthy.
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dany
2:51 pm
Oct 05, 2012
Unthrustworty is a very polite qualification for such media bastards that not only have made
British news biased towards Israel that it is no longer worthy even for Brits, if they are still
customers. In the near future they will become Peresona Non Grata in this holly Yisrael.
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Nathan Zafran
6:18 pm
Jul 19, 2012
The Guardian, The Independent and other rubbish media, the BBC, Kaufman, Ridley, Tonge, Boothe, Roach (uh …Loach), The Roses, Greenstein, Atzmon, all belong to the manure heap of society. If you expect truth and honesty from any of these you’re nuts or foolish. This is the garbage that helps to incite the British public against Israel and the Jews.
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Shula
6:52 pm
Jul 19, 2012
Got a question – I just looked at the page on Israel in Wikipedia, and it says: Israel’s financial centre is Tel Aviv,[18] while Jerusalem is the country’s most populous city, and its capital (although not recognized internationally as such).
Not recognized internationally???? Is this a correct statement? If not, can somebody who knows how to make changes on Wikipedia do so?
The page URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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zahava
11:43 pm
Jul 21, 2012
that is correct – jerusalem is not internationally recognized as the capital of israel. disgraceful, in my opinion…
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Gary Katz
7:25 pm
Jul 19, 2012
Jerusalem will become “internationally recognized” as Israel’s capital the day after someone discovers a cheap substitute for crude oil.
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Nigel
10:33 am
Jul 20, 2012
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. The Europeans, particularly the British and French, were obsessed with the Arab (and wider Muslim) cultural world well-before the Western world’s dependence on oil. And the US State Department inherited the British FCO’s pro-Arab philosophy well-before America’s dependence on oil. The plain truth is that the West is pro-Arab, though not pro-Muslim. And Arab/Muslim immigration has made those peoples increasingly important constituents. The Jews have always been persecuted or tolerated for economic reasons. And nothing has really changed. No Western country is pro-Jew!
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Nigel
10:50 am
Jul 20, 2012
Furthermore, Jews in pre-WW2 Germany were as integrated/assimilated as today’s US Jews, in arguably the most technologically/industrially/culturally advanced society of the time, and look what happened. Hitler didn’t rise in a vacuum. Look at the accusations against the Jews regarding the current world economic downturn. And look at the banners of many Occupy protesters. Oil supply/cost was, and is, not the primary cause of anti-Semitism. There is no real logic. There are just lies and BIG LIES. Then, as now, there was a fascination with the Arab/Muslim world, well beyond oil. Remember what Hitler thought of Islam, and today’s embrace recognizes it as a perfect system of population control.
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Brent Pudsey
9:10 pm
Jul 19, 2012
It is too bad that the Gurdian cannot get its information correct. Wether a sutble dig or outright method of challenging Israel, this type of action only creates hate.
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Sharon
1:10 am
Jul 24, 2012
Kind of emphasizes the ignorance of the journalists reporting on situations they are not fully across.
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bunsinspace
9:46 pm
Jul 30, 2012
It is interesting to note that past President Bush stated that the status of Jerusalem a State Capital as is to yet to be negotiated (as per the UN resolutions to partition Jerusalem which was rejected out-of-hand by the Palestinians and the surrounding Arab nations – even though the official party line of the PA is to make East Jerusalem including specifically the Temple Mount the new capital of the future State of Palestine) while President Obama stated that Jerusalem is and always will be the undivided capital of the State of Israel. I wonder what Mitt Romney’s take is on it.
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dany
2:59 pm
Oct 05, 2012
The only take that counts is THE CREATOR”S, no media, no foreign leader, no UN resolution and not even WWIII, WWIV, WWV, will divide YERUSHALAYIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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