Well now Arab Media Watch lifts a curtain to show us the real lobby at work. It boasts: Some 200 guests gathered at Kensington's Royal Garden Hotel on 21 March 2009 to attend Arab Media Watch’s fifth annual fundraising dinner, and to mark its ninth anniversary. Among the guests were almost three-dozen senior journalists from the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Financial Times, Reuters, Daily Mail, Independent, Asharq Al Awsat, Al Quds In particular, it appears he was mortified by my blog posts here and here about ‘the Ha’aretz blood libel’. Anshel makes his points in a gracious and rounded way, acknowledging the need to fight the onslaught of anti-Israel hatred and Zionophobia around the globe. But unfortunately he does not acknowledge the part played in this onslaught by his own paper. President Obama said, ‘The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations.’ But, Mr. President, the Iranian nation does not wish to be associated with this occupying regime, whatsoever. In fact, they want the Islamic Republic to be thrown into the dustbin of history as quickly as possible. Mr. President, today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the greatest threats to the stability of the civilized world and humanity at large. It continues to impose its horrendous ideology on the Iranian population. It also looks like my people are going to be betrayed once again by a badly misguided American president. Jimmy Carter helped give birth to the virulent
Friday, 27th March 2009
The real lobby and its acolytes
1:40pm
Those who are regularly left open-mouthed at the way in which the British media puts across an overwhelmingly Arab narrative about Israel and the Middle East, trasmitting lies and distortions as facts and reversing victim and victimiser to present Israel as the regional aggressor and the Palestinians as their targets, may well also scratch their heads at being told with monotonous regularity that ‘the Jews control the media’.
...Israel's real rotten apple
12:13pm
In today’s Ha’aretz, Anshel Pfeffer has written a wounded defence of the paper’s publication of the claims by Israel Defence Force soldiers that their comrades had deliberately killed Palestinian civilians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, having been given explicit orders to do so. Pfeffer had nothing to do with the story but, feeling besmirched through ‘guilt by association’ as a result of being given a lot of grief over his paper’s behaviour, he seeks to defend it. The Iranians betrayed
10:11am
Amil Imani has written an impassionedpiece about the way in which Obama is betraying Imani's fellow Iranians:
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Saturday, 28 March 2009
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