Comments on: The truth about Palestine: Occupation http://anilnetto.com/israel-and-palestine/the-real-truth-about-palestine/ Journalism from the heart ... Let justice flow like a mighty river Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:49:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mr. Roach http://anilnetto.com/israel-and-palestine/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-488 Mr. Roach Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:06:55 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2008/01/21/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-488 The Palestinians screwed themselves by remaining loyal to the corrupt Arafat as long as they did. He failed the Palestinians by failing to create a viable state that stamped out groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. He kept them around as muscle, and they've since devoured the Palestinian Authority and its claim to stand for Palestinian Nationalism that renounces terror. The Palestinians screwed themselves by remaining loyal to the corrupt Arafat as long as they did. He failed the Palestinians by failing to create a viable state that stamped out groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. He kept them around as muscle, and they’ve since devoured the Palestinian Authority and its claim to stand for Palestinian Nationalism that renounces terror.

]]> By: anilnetto http://anilnetto.com/israel-and-palestine/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-487 anilnetto Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:42:50 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2008/01/21/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-487 Gaza is under siege! Of course, many mainstream journalists today have to be cautious that they don't stray too far away from the "party line" (whether it is their newspaper owners, their political masters, the interests of advertisers, etc). So they are hardly "objective" or "impartial". Just look at the Malaysian media. For an analysis of media spin, check out: http://www.medialens.org If you are interested in knowing more about Islamic fundamentalism, blowback, CIA etc, have a look at the work of American scholar Chalmers Johnson. Johnson is the author of the prophetic book, Blowback, written before Sept 11: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1984/chalmers_johnson_on_the_cia_and_a_blowback_world Would love to continue this discussion, but I have to get back to work. Have a good day. Gaza is under siege!

Of course, many mainstream journalists today have to be cautious that they don’t stray too far away from the “party line” (whether it is their newspaper owners, their political masters, the interests of advertisers, etc). So they are hardly “objective” or “impartial”. Just look at the Malaysian media. For an analysis of media spin, check out: http://www.medialens.org

If you are interested in knowing more about Islamic fundamentalism, blowback, CIA etc, have a look at the work of American scholar Chalmers Johnson. Johnson is the author of the prophetic book, Blowback, written before Sept 11:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1984/chalmers_johnson_on_the_cia_and_a_blowback_world

Would love to continue this discussion, but I have to get back to work. Have a good day.

]]> By: Ranger http://anilnetto.com/israel-and-palestine/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-486 Ranger Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:35:27 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2008/01/21/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-486 This will be my last post on this thread. Read this , Human rights of Christians in Pali Society http://www.jcpa.org/text/Christian-Persecution-Weiner.pdf This will be my last post on this thread. Read this , Human rights of Christians in Pali Society http://www.jcpa.org/text/Christian-Persecution-Weiner.pdf

]]> By: Ranger http://anilnetto.com/israel-and-palestine/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-485 Ranger Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:21:44 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2008/01/21/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-485 This is John Pilger: John Pilger does not pretend to deliver an objective view of his subject matter. In fact, he scoffs at the whole notion of journalistic impartiality. "Impartiality and objectivity now mean the establishment point of view..." he declared derisively in a 2002 interview with the Progressive. Those journalists who claim to be objective, according to Pilger, only "channel the official truth," and thereby "simply cipher and transmit lies." He sees himself, by contrast, as an anti-establishment crusader and has acknowledged that if he were American, he’d be accused of advocacy journalism (Independent, March 23, 1998). One of Pilger’s more notorious advocacy campaigns — a 1982 sensationalist exposé for the Daily Mirror about child slavery in Thailand — resulted in accusations that he fabricated the identity of a young girl sold into slavery by her parents, in order to strengthen his conclusions. Pilger claimed to have been duped by his Thai intermediary. Pilger responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America with an op-ed blaming his usual villains. He wrote: If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?... ...The attacks on Tuesday come at the end of a long history of betrayal of the Islamic and Arab peoples: the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the foundation of the state of Israel, four Arab-Israeli wars and 34 years of Israel's brutal occupation of an Arab nation... ...It is only a few years ago that the Islamic fundamentalist groups, willing to blow themselves up in Israel and New York, were formed, and only after Israel and the US had rejected outright the hope of a Palestinian state, and justice for a people scarred by imperialism. Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalised places have at last come home." (The Herald [Glasgow], September 13, 2001). So he is still your reference? This is John Pilger:
John Pilger does not pretend to deliver an objective view of his subject matter. In fact, he scoffs at the whole notion of journalistic impartiality. “Impartiality and objectivity now mean the establishment point of view…” he declared derisively in a 2002 interview with the Progressive. Those journalists who claim to be objective, according to Pilger, only “channel the official truth,” and thereby “simply cipher and transmit lies.” He sees himself, by contrast, as an anti-establishment crusader and has acknowledged that if he were American, he’d be accused of advocacy journalism (Independent, March 23, 1998).

One of Pilger’s more notorious advocacy campaigns — a 1982 sensationalist exposé for the Daily Mirror about child slavery in Thailand — resulted in accusations that he fabricated the identity of a young girl sold into slavery by her parents, in order to strengthen his conclusions. Pilger claimed to have been duped by his Thai intermediary.

Pilger responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America with an op-ed blaming his usual villains. He wrote:

If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?…

…The attacks on Tuesday come at the end of a long history of betrayal of the Islamic and Arab peoples: the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the foundation of the state of Israel, four Arab-Israeli wars and 34 years of Israel’s brutal occupation of an Arab nation…

…It is only a few years ago that the Islamic fundamentalist groups, willing to blow themselves up in Israel and New York, were formed, and only after Israel and the US had rejected outright the hope of a Palestinian state, and justice for a people scarred by imperialism. Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalised places have at last come home.” (The Herald [Glasgow], September 13, 2001).

So he is still your reference?

]]> By: Ranger http://anilnetto.com/israel-and-palestine/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-484 Ranger Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:02:49 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2008/01/21/the-real-truth-about-palestine/#comment-484 Have you heard of the Stockholm Syndrome ? ''If there's a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against, '' Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah He is a victim of the Stockhol Syndrome. So tell me why only Israel? 57 OIC countries, their minorities are treated equally? You stay in Malaysia. "In the impoverished Gaza Strip, festivities in the tiny Christian community of 3,000 were decidedly muted. Christians kept a low profile following the killing of a prominent Christian activist in the wake of the Islamic militant group Hamas' takeover of the area. Hamas has denied involvement." http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcRKGqMwVdm40GTKNsNpliik_HaQD8TO4V380 Have you heard of the Stockholm Syndrome ? ”If there’s a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against, ” Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah He is a victim of the Stockhol Syndrome. So tell me why only Israel? 57 OIC countries, their minorities are treated equally? You stay in Malaysia.
“In the impoverished Gaza Strip, festivities in the tiny Christian community of 3,000 were decidedly muted. Christians kept a low profile following the killing of a prominent Christian activist in the wake of the Islamic militant group Hamas’ takeover of the area. Hamas has denied involvement.” http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcRKGqMwVdm40GTKNsNpliik_HaQD8TO4V380

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