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Joan Betty Stuchner
3:51 am
Jun 11, 2010
The photos of the children ‘sleeping’ are actually the same children in the same tent. In one photo they share a mattress and in the second photo they ‘sleep’ separately. One boy is wearing the same blue tee shirt. No one is denying that Palestinians suffer – but who is responsible? Their own corrupt leaders.
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Jema
4:18 am
Jun 11, 2010
I agree with Lynne that a campaign should be raged against Yahoo who have proved whose side they are on. We do not really need to be on any ONE side but care should be taken to report accurately, and give both parties equal billing. It has always been one-sided and we are now fed-up with the lies. The world needs to wake up. Oh, and the song was very clever. Great singing voices and harmony. It should be marketed to tell the world the truth. Many blessings and Shalom!
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norm grey
4:25 am
Jun 11, 2010
I’m thrilled that you picked up on this travesty. I noticed it just as you did, a couple of weeks ago. But I am soooo busy at work that I didn’t have time to contact Yahoo…and you…and every other organization I had planned to. I wanted my response to be a good one. That’s why I didn’t just rant in anger and haste. Thank you for being on guard. I hope Yahoo is cursed along with all those who curse Israel. And NOT blessed with those who bless Israel.
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Judith Bendory
5:12 am
Jun 11, 2010
I always said that the one with the mussels manages to recreate history. Yahoo will be stopped only if we, the one oppose to this ridiculous political statement, will show that we can do without yahoo. First place to start is change your mail to gmail.
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Brent Pudsey
6:14 am
Jun 11, 2010
Jerusalem must not be divided. It is not approriate to divide Washington District of Columbia into east and west. So why should it be approriate for Israel? Yahoo should not seek to cause division in the world.
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Brent Pudsey
6:16 am
Jun 11, 2010
This is unfair and biased reporting. It is inapporiate for a news service to collect and spread biased media which is used to incite hatred against another state and race. Reteurs needs to be more tolerant of the Jews and of Israel.
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Robert Kalfus
7:10 am
Jun 11, 2010
The photographer’s caption, as distributed by Reuters, refers to “Palestinians stand inside a tent erected after their house was destroyed during Israel’s three-week offensive in Gaza during 2008-2009, in the northern Gaza Strip June 8, 2010.” Note that the caption infers that their house was destroyed due to action by Israel, but the caption does not explicitly state that: we sort of ‘fill in’ that inference due to our previous numerous exposures to biased photos, and biased captions. Moreover, the caption does not state that the tent in which they are “standing” is their current home; the caption merely states that ‘after their house was destroyed, a tent was erected.’
“Their house was destroyed DURING Israel’s three-week offensive…” OFFENSIVE is indeed an OFFENSIVE word to use in this context. No mention is made of WHY Israel’s government and military decided to wage war against sections of Gaza during 2008 and continuing into 2009 (in these dates are indeed correct!). The caption does not state: ‘their house was destroyed as a RESULT of Israel’s three-week offensive.’ If that statement could be made, that would be an utterly strong statement of cause-and-effect, pinning the responsibility for this family’s lower quality of life on the military engagement in Gaza.
But no such claim was made by the photographer.
Please also note how a three-week-long military action is made to seem much larger in scope, by mentioning that it initiated in one year and continued into the NEXT year!
Yet more than one and one-half years after the incident referred to in the caption, a photographer suddenly produces photographs allegedly made on June 8, 2010, of a Palestinian family living in a tent.
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ivan
10:11 am
Jun 11, 2010
reuters are unfortunately known to produce articles to inflame ie sensationalism otherwise non existance ie no sales no more work,they will always show articles without the real truth.they managed this in most areas of the globe,without any qualms,they are a pain in the a…why not show the truth as it is and not slanted???
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Matt Pryor
3:29 pm
Jun 11, 2010
Not sure if this is the right place but just came across this disgusting piece of pro-Hamas propaganda being paraded on the Channel 4 website:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/drained+to+the+last+drop+by+the+gaza+blockade/3667927
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Georg Witt
4:05 pm
Jun 11, 2010
Yahoo’s action is not surprising at all. The right thing is to require from them an explanation what ( or perhaps who) makes an organization like Yahoo behave and look like a fool. This looks like having been invented by the brillianr humorist Efraim Kishon who apologized to the “World” that Israel has won the 6-days war saving her people from another Holocaust ,,,
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One Jerusalem
8:21 am
Jun 12, 2010
Aha, now I know why! Thanks for informing us. When I checked today, in the morning of June 12, it was back as “Jerusalem.” No “East” or “West” written =)
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Chaya
8:22 am
Jun 12, 2010
Who needs a fridge in a tent? Usually, a tent does not have connections to electricity, so what is so important about an empty fridge? Propaganda?
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Shlomo
5:44 pm
Jun 12, 2010
One city sharing the same weather. Ya who?
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Guy
9:19 pm
Jun 12, 2010
Incomprehensible that an internet company has decided to play politician and side with Israel’s enemies.
I have emailed Yahoo the strongest email and un-installed every Yahoo product on my pc, and I shall never use them ever again.
God bless Israel.
Shalom al Y’Israel!
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yvonne
7:23 pm
Jun 13, 2010
Honest Reporting is doing a very good job.
The emfasis of the news should be on Iran and their nuclear capability and future use…… When will the world wake up and smell the coffee?
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Jeffrey Nakar
1:32 am
Jun 14, 2010
I notice that the forecast for East Jerusalem is still written in Hebrew.
If Yahoo are going to do something stupid and disingenuous, they might at least do it properly.
Of course even if they were prepared to spend the money to translate it in Arabic (making an expensive political point instead of a cheap one), they would still be writing in one of the official languages of the State if Israel.
I very rarely use Yahoo, and will try to use it even less from now on.
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proudtobejewish
8:41 am
Jun 14, 2010
Have you ever thought of taking pictures from the houses destroyed in Israel?
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Jan
4:38 am
Jun 15, 2010
Dishonest Reporting does not want to acknowledge that Israel has made the lives of Palestinians, not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, miserable. Whether or not these photos are “staged” they accurately reflect life in Gaza.
And while there may not be photos of the two Palestinians executed by Hamas, neither are there photos of the Palestinians who die almost every day at the hands of the IDF.
I suspect you will not approve this posting but I wonder why you did not post the sign held by an Israeli supporter at a recent demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, a photo I sent to you, that read UNTIL ALL OF GAZA IS DESTROYED THE JOB IS NOT DONE.’
I suspect that if the word Israel had been substituted for the word Gaza and held by someone on the side opposing Israeli policies, you would have rushed to show that to the world as proof of anti-Semitism. But, guess what, there was no such sign.
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Jim USN (Ret)
7:57 pm
Jun 15, 2010
What’s so unusual about this? Obama and the Liberal dems OWN most of the so-called Main-stream-press. Why shouldn’t they make such an attempt? Look at how Yahoo, and others intentionally attempt to FORBID, and CENSOR the opinions, and remarks of anyone with whom they MUST disagree in order to remain in the good graces of Obama the Pretender-in-chief?
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