CNN wipes guess which country off the map for its EgyptAir coverage
As I'm sure most of you have heard already, an EgyptAir jet flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked this morning to Cyprus. CNN published this helpful map as part of its coverage:
I heard this story yesterday, but I've been (and continue to be) totally swamped with work, so I didn't take the time to click on it. I assumed - as I am sure others did on reading the headline - that the reference was to the rare alleged attacks by Jews on Arabs in Israel like Baruch Goldstein at the Machpela Cave and Eden Natan-Zada in Shfaram (none of whom was ever tried - the Arabs lynched them immediately, hence the 'alleged'), or the current still under wraps situation involving the alleged arson murder of three members of an Arab family in Samaria.
But no, the CNN anchor (one Ashleigh Banfield interviewing former Reagan White House administrator Jeffrey Lord) had none of those in mind.
Let's go to the videotape.
It goes without saying that this is not the first craziness to come out of CNN.... Where do they find these ditzes? Arutz Sheva has a reminder.
CNN is notorious for its anti-Israel coverage, most recently
two weeks ago when the network posted a news article on its website in
which Israel was literally wiped off the map.
The article, titled, "Beyond ISIS: 2016's scariest geopolitical hot
spots," featured a graphic of the Middle East in which Israel is
replaced with a red square marking the country of "Palestina."
CNN also faced an online backlash
last May after issuing a report claiming that "settlers" had uprooted
800 Palestinian-owned olive trees near Hevron - based purely on
unverified allegations by Palestinian Authority-based outlets with
questionable records on fact-checking themselves.
One of the cable operators allegedly replaced CNN with Fox three years ago. Since I don't have cable (or television for that matter), I cannot confirm whether that it still correct.
A good morning to all of you from Boston Logan Airport where today is a travel day for me. I won't tell you yet where I'm going, but I'm going to be spending much of today over 'flyover country' and I am not heading to the West Coast. Hmmm. PS I should have WiFi.
I thought you'd all want to see the tweet above. First, because it shows just how out of control the situation with 'refugees' is in Europe. My fear now is that trying to stop it may be closing the barn door after the cow has escaped.
And second, the comment (which may have been inserted by Honest Reporting) is spot-on. What happened in Paris on Friday night is no different than what we're wary of 24/7 in Israel... except that in Israel the victims are (God Forbid) Jews, so CNN and the rest of the liberal media fall all over themselves to avoid calling it terrorism.
CNN tries to convince viewers Kosher supermarket attack NOT anti-Semitic
During its coverage of the terror attack at the Paris Kosher supermarket on Friday night, CNN tried to convince its viewers that the attack was NOT anti-Semitic, and that it may have been aimed at Muslim shoppers who shop there as well.
Let's go to the videotape.
By the way, as I understand it, the Kosher market is located in the 4th arrandissement in Paris. If there are readers in Paris, feel free to correct me, but if my understanding is correct, this attack took place at the center of the oldest Jewish neighborhood in Paris (the 4th, the 9th, and if I recall correctly the 19th arrandissements are the center of the Jewish community in Paris - I stayed in the 9th the last two times I was there).
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR (in a broadcast on the day of the massacre, perhaps
even shortly after it took place, given that CNN considered it “Breaking
News”): On this day, these activists found their targets, and their
targets were journalists. This was a clear attack on the freedom of
expression, on the press, and on satire.
This is exactly how the Obama administration wants Americans to think about terrorism. Notice two words missing: Islamic terrorists.
As a group of young Conservative Jews, our
main motive for attending this meeting was to open up a discussion about
CNN’s coverage of affairs in Israel. Amidst everything else that was
discussed in that conference room, the conversation continuously circled
back to the Har Nof Synagogue massacre and the abysmal media coverage
of events on that day. Davis’ explanations for the aforementioned,
horribly misleading and false headlines boiled down to human error. In
an attempt to explain CNN’s headlines, which did not account for the
terrorist actions or reasons these people were killed, Davis said that
these headlines only surfaced for minutes before being taken down.
However, he said, because of the world we live in, someone took a
screenshot and circulated those headlines and spread them around the
world. This, Davis said, was not CNN’s fault. To expound on how the
words “mosque” and “synagogue” could have been swapped, Davis gave an
even more infuriating response.
Apparently, in the room where the
headlines were written, there was some conversation taking place
regarding a mosque in Damascus. “Haven’t you ever written something you
heard instead of what you meant to write?” he asked.
As more questions came in from my peers, each
response deviated further from the questions at hand and grew more
negative toward Israel. As our time with the CNN execs came to a close,
Davis explained to those of us who were still listening that we simply
have opinions about Israel. And, he went on, when one person has an
opinion about anything, a news report may seem wrong to that person.
However, to everyone else, it could be perfectly right. I know I was not
alone in feeling that his justification of CNN’s misleading reporting
was a farce.
Moreover, we were distraught about his implication that so
many news sources have anti-Israel tendencies because Israel is in the
wrong.
As everyone filed out for lunch, I decided to
go get in one last word with Richard Davis. I questioned him on the
HarNof headlines again. I first had to prove to him that I had in fact
even seen the headlines I was questioning. When I managed to satisfy his
questions, I wanted to know why CNN, when releasing the headlines at
issue, couldn’t call it a terrorist attack. Davis explained that they
would never jump to a conclusion that anything is a terrorist attack.
“Okay”, I said, fully understanding the weight that the word “terrorist”
carries. “But by the time it was known that it was four Israelis and
two Palestinians, it was known that there were meat cleavers and
stabbings involved. Why couldn’t you call it an ‘attack’?” I continued.
His response? “You’ve got to be kidding me? One word? Are you brain
dead?”
There's a difference between how the deaths of Israelis and the deaths of 'Palestinians' are being reported in the international media. And it's an important difference that indicates bias.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Tzippy Yarom).
As Bret Stephens once wrote
about the New York Times When one carefully examines the New York
Times’s corrections column, one can see that in all cases the mistakes
were made against Israel. “In a more normal world,” wrote Stephens, “a
newspaper’s mistakes, particularly in its political and diplomatic
reporting, would more-or-less be randomly distributed... Yet while a
search of NYT corrections over the past two years discloses the usual
measure of forgivable bloopers, not once has the paper erred on the side
of Israel. A pattern of bias, maybe?”
Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional
Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press
Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved in the Har Nof massacre with the victims.
According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was
responsible for the headline describing the massacre under the headline,
"Israeli police shot dead two Palestinian civilians" - when, in fact,
the shooters were Palestinian terrorists who killed four Jews and
wounded eight others as they prayed the morning service before being
killed in a gun battle with police.
Dagan charged that the headline was a serious violation of
international journalism ethics, and called to revoke Wedeman's press
license and, generally, bring anti-Semitic coverage of terror attacks by
foreign journalists to an end - permanently.
"There is no reality elsewhere in the world where journalists can
report a terror attack in this style," he stated. "This rule should also
apply to foreign reporters in Israel. There is good and there is bad,
there are killers and there are victims."
"The media arena in recent years has become an equally
important battlefield for Israel, and it must use all the tools at its
disposal to demand certain baselines in its media coverage," he
continued. "Coverage like this legitimizes the next murder; whoever
loses in this loses the next war as well."
@IsraelMatzav On FoxNews this morning Connor Powell said violence caused by "extreme" Jews that want to pray at Judaism's holiest place.
— rick s. geiger (@asyoureadthis) November 18, 2014
The media really don't (want to) get it, do they? It's got nothing to do with prayer on the Temple Mount. It has to do with Jews being at the Temple Mount and for that matter being anywhere (in the biblical Jewish homeland). If God Forbid they 'finish us off' in Jerusalem, they will go to the rest of Israel, and then to the rest of the world. It's anti-Semitism - pure and simple.
Jake Tapper doesn't do any better than his employer
Sorry, Jake. I'm really disappointed in this one.
BREAKING: CNN Jake Tapper's excuse for one-sided Gaza reporting: "CNN didn't have hotel room right next to rocket sites."
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) August 6, 2014
BREAKING: Defense by CNN for never showing Hamas firing from Gaza "CNN wasn't given an invitation to the rocket launches"!!
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) August 6, 2014
Where else in the world do they wait for an invitation to cover a news event? Ask them....
Pallywood exposed? Autopsy to be performed on Naqba day victim
At the request of his family, the body of a 'Palestinian' teenager who was allegedly killed during a Naqba Day riot in Beitunia - just north of Jerusalem - was exhumed on Wednesday and an autopsy was performed. The results of the autopsy have not been announced.
'Palestinian' medics claimed that the boy was killed by bullets fired by IDF soldiers, but the IDF has said consistently that its soldiers only used rubber bullets that day, and video has shown that there was no blood when the victim was removed from the scene. Moreover, a bullet allegedly recovered from the boy's body that was shown on CNN showed no signs of having actually been through a body.
Palestinian medics have said that Nadim Nuwara, 17, and Muhammad Abu
Thahr, 16, were shot dead by Israeli troops using live ammunition on May
15 as they took part in an anti-Israel demonstration in the West Bank.
The
Israeli military said its forces fired only rubber-coated bullets that
day, and that an investigation of their deaths was still under way.
Both
teenagers were buried the day after they were killed. Palestinian
officials said an autopsy would be performed on Nuwara's body on
Wednesday, at his family's request.
Palestinian pathologist Saber
Al-Aloul said US and Danish pathologists would be present at the autopsy
in the Palestinian Institute of Forensic Medicine in the West Bank town
of Abu Dis. He did not say if or when results would be published.
An Israeli physician will also attend, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
Don't expect any of those 'human rights' organizations that have accused Israel to apologize. It won't happen.
Elder of Ziyon has spliced together the CNN video and two closed circuit television videos of the alleged Naqba day killings of two 'Palestinians' in Beitunia in an effort to learn more about who actually shot the 'protesters.' CNN and two CCTV videos, synchronized, of the incident shows that the
shot that coincided with the youth's falling down came from a gun with a
rubber bullet attachment. (CNN implied it was the second shot, but it
was the first.)
Of course, this could be resolved with an autopsy but that would deny the 'Palestinians' the opportunity to blame it on Israel, so of course it won't happen. Remember Mohammed al-Dura?
CAMERA dissects CNN's coverage of the apparent deaths of two 'Palestinian youths' in Beitunia last week.
During the remainder of the segment, CNN reporter Ivan Watson speaks
with Siam Nouwaran, the father of one of the young men who died. During
the course of the interview, Watson describes the contents of a backpack
he was wearing at the time of his death. “Inside, the backpack, a
blood-stained textbook and a bullet, not a rubber-coated projectile.”
The father holds a plastic bag that contains a bullet.
“You think that this is the bullet that killed your son?” Watson
asks. “Yeah, of course,” the father answers. “Inside the bag. I found it
inside the bag.”
The image of a father holding the bullet that caused his son's death makes for a compelling story, especially on television.
But is it true?
One Israeli ballistics expert doesn't think so. Appearing today on Israel's Channel Two, Yosef Yekutiel stated
that if the bullet actually went through the victim's body the way
Palestinian doctors say it did, it would look entirely differently from
the one displayed by the boy's father.
This bullet, if it did what the doctor claims, passed
through the chest, came out through the body hit the backpack and passed
through several books – this bullet didn't do that.
Everyone who understands bullets, knows that the moment it passes
through the chest, the torso and hits some sort of bone, it ends up with
a distortion. The moment it enters and hits the papers of the books it
is expected to be crushed in the front section in a very prominent
manner.
Clearly, CNN has some more reporting to do.
Oh and don't hold your breaths waiting for an autopsy. As was the case with Mohamed al-Dura 14 years ago, there isn't going to be one, and even if there was one, you couldn't rely on it. Hmmm.
CNN: About as biased as it gets, complete with 'Lucky' the dog
They don't get much more biased than this CNN video on damages in Gaza. At the end you'll even see 'Lucky' the dog, who, of course, was trapped under building rubble for two days.
Let's go to the videotape.
Israel has more than accounted for every single building that was destroyed. No one tells Hamas to hide their rockets among the civilian infrastructure.
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