NBC makes imaginary country the 'Holy Land'
Elder of Ziyon reports that NBC's Olympics site has a brief description of Israel, but a much more extensive description of 'Palestine,' which it calls the 'Holy Land.' Often called the "Holy Land." A historic region of southwest Asia between the eastern Mediterranean shore and the Jordan River, comprising parts of modern Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Israel has handed most of the Gaza Strip and seven West Bank population centers to Palestinian rule under a process set in motion by the historic Israel-PLO peace deal in 1993.Unbelievable! And totally inaccurate.
In the late 1990s, the PLO and Israel agreed to expand [sic] The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), headed by Yasser Arafat, was founded in 1964 and is recognized by the United Nations as the government of the Palestinians. After a three-year hiatus, negotiations to determine the future of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank began in September 1999 but were cut off in September 2000 after violence broke out in both regions.
In April 2003, United Nations, European Union, United States and Russian officials announced the "Road Map to Peace," which outlined the steps that Israel and Palestinian authorities would have to take to achieve peace - including the creation of an independent Palestinian state - by 2005. The path was stymied along the way, as Palestinian authorities were unable to stop anti-Israeli terrorism and Israel's military struck back against Palestinians with force. But in 2005, all Israeli settlers were evacuated from the Gaza Strip and control was transferred to the Palestinian Authority.
There is no such country as 'Palestine.' The 'West Bank' currently has nothing to do with the Gaza Strip and has not in more than a year. 'Palestinian authorities' were never unable to stop anti-Israel terrorism - they never tried. And look how they describe the expulsion from Gaza. 'Evacuated' by whom? And if control was transferred to the 'Palestinian Authority,' where are they?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:07 PM
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NBC's politization (in the face of their efforts to avoid politization of Chinese matters) deserves broader exposure and condemnation.
Link to this post broadly- on media criticism.
I was surprised when I saw representatives of the terrorist entity, which is what we should be calling 'palis', marching through the amphitheater in Beijing.
Apparently, our friends in the IOC forgot what these 'palis' did to us and to the games in 72.
Apparently, they felt a reward was in order.
Disgusting. Immoral.
Dear IOC, 'Palestine' is not now, nor has it ever been, an independent country. Much of the narrative you have read and devoured is known to be in contradiction with historical facts. The people who you celebrated walking into the opening ceremony are not at arms length from those who massacred athletes 36 years ago.
Yet in a fit of insanity, you seem to have granted these amoral terrorists some credibility by admitting their 'athletes' as if they were a real country.
Shame on you IOC. Shame on you, for your lack of morality, for getting history wrong, for ignoring your own history.
They can broadcast the next Olympics from Universal City Dubailand.
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