(source: Rise For The Truth)
Western security sources believe Saudi Arabia will readily let Israel use the country’s airspace to strike neighboring Iran if a war breaks out between the archenemies.
Prominent German news magazine SPIEGEL claimed in a Tuesday article that there exists a strong unity between Israel and Persian Gulf’s Arab states against Iran.
This, too, is one of the main reasons why art is so enchanting; the spell of the image is able to transcend words and resonates deep within our very beings. However, the kind of emotion that an image invokes also ultimately depends upon the eye of the beholder. All of these factors come to bear upon Zapiro’s recent33of the Prophet of Islam.
(source: Monitoring Authority…BBC Charter Compliance)
Introduction
How do BBC statements compare with evidence in the public domain? Is the BBC coverage accurate? Does the BBC output divert attention from the most relevant issues and events? Are the key questions addressed?
Monitoring Authority reviews the BBC documentary, "911 Conspiracy File", broadcast in Feb 2007 and July 2008 plus the BBC web site. It asks whether the programme can fairly be seen as deceptive and whether it could condition our minds to reject further inquiry.
The evidence is verified, collated and presented for the reader’s judgement.
After Sept. 11th President Bush declared:
"You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists"
How did the BBC react to this confrontational statement?
The BBC investigation backs the official theory: 19 Muslims conspired with Osama bin Laden to attack the US, because they "hate freedom".
Is the BBC guilty of misrepresentation of the evidence and "spinning" the phrase "conspiracy theory" in an attack on freedom of expression? Was there censorship of dissent?
Methodology
A deconstruction of the programme [transcript] pointing to information in the public domain contradicting the BBC content. It does not make statements that cannot be substantiated.
It does however examine the frequent repetition of the phrase – "conspiracy theory" – and whether this phrase has been used subliminally to condition us to react, in a predictable Pavlovian manner, to support US & UK government policy.,
This phrase now lights up pathways in our brains that resonate with “paranoid stories by sad souls”, as if asking a question, how? who? when? where? constitutes evidence of psychological disturbance and flawed character. But is this really how the BBC "911 File" spins those who doubt or inquire?
We should consider whether the UK public-financed broadcasting corporation ignored its Charter obligations in a programme about arguably the most important political event of the 21st Century – leading as it did to war in Afghanistan and Iraq with draconian increases in state power at home – all vital, we’re told, to fight terrorism.
Read More »Reviewing the bbcs coverage of the 2001 attack on the world trade center the pentagon
“Not one Israeli general or politician has or is going to spend one day in gaol for ordering the troops to shoot at unarmed demonstrators, innocent civilians, women, old men and children.”
By Ilan Pappe
(source: Electronic Intifada)
The view from Israel is that if they indeed succeed, the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions are bad, very bad. Educated Arabs – not all of them dressed as “Islamists,” quite a few of them speaking perfect English whose wish for democracy is articulated without resorting to “anti-Western” rhetoric – are bad for Israel.
Arab armies that do not shoot at these demonstrators are as bad as are many other40that moved and enthused so many people around the world, even in the West. This world reaction is also bad, very bad. It makes the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and its apartheid policies inside the state look like the acts of a typical “Arab” regime.
For a while you could not tell what official Israel thought. In his first ever commonsensical message to his colleagues, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked his ministers, generals and politicians not to comment in public on the36in Egypt. For a brief moment one thought that Israel turned from the neighbourhood’s thug to what it always was: a visitor or permanent resident. It seems Netanyahu was particularly embarrassed by the unfortunate remarks on the situation uttered publicly by General Aviv Kochavi, the head of Israeli Military Intelligence. This top Israeli expert on Arab affairs stated confidently two weeks ago in the Knesset that the Mubarak regime is as solid and resilient as ever. But Netanyahu could not keep his mouth shut for that long. And when the boss talked all the others followed. And when they all responded, their commentary made Fox News’ commentators look like a bunch of peaceniks and free-loving hippies from the 1960s.