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Poisonously Biased (CNN's Amanpour)
Jerusalem Post ^ | 8/29/2007 | Andrea Levin

Posted on 08/30/2007 3:25:07 PM PDT by mojito

CNN's Christiane Amanpour has set a new standard - and not the kind a news network usually trumpets. God's Jewish Warriors, her two-hour screed against Israeli settlers and American supporters of Israel, is the most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory.

The August 21 broadcast was the first of God's Warriors, a three-part CNN series, ostensibly examining the role of people who want "God back in their daily lives, back to the seat of power." In actuality, the deeply false premise of the programs, established in the opening scene, is the equating of Jewish (and Christian) religious fervency with that of Muslims heard endorsing "martyrdom," or suicide-killing.

There is, of course, no counterpart among Jews and Christians to the violent jihadist Muslim campaigns under way across the globe, whether in numbers of perpetrators engaged, magnitude of death and destruction wrought or the widespread support of their co-religionists.

To demonstrate the supposed threat of Jewish fundamentalism, the few cases of Jewish terrorism - a handful spanning decades, with each one overwhelmingly denounced by Israeli society and with those involved arrested, tried and jailed - are elaborated on at length and cast as a profound peril.

BUT IT'S Israeli settlements, in the Amanpour script, that are the great enemy of mankind and all those with any link to them, however indirect, whether Christian or Jewish, secular or religious, are part of a putatively evil nexus. This dark alliance is said to include Jewish fundraisers stumping the US for money ("defiance of international law comes dressed in diamonds") and Jewish organizations with an alleged stranglehold on Congress.

Throughout, Amanpour hammers the claim that Jewish settlements violate international law and seeks to paint this position as a universally accepted view with a lopsided parade of like-minded commentators.

Yet apart from any judgment about the political advisability of building or not building settlements, many legal scholars argue that these communities are, in fact, legal and do not violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as the detractors claim. Such experts include Meir Shamgar, former Israeli Supreme Court justice, internationally renowned legal scholar Professor Julius Stone and former undersecretary of state Eugene Rostow, among others. But not one scholar of this viewpoint is given voice in a two-hour feature largely devoted to decrying settlements and their residents.

ALSO CONSISTENT with Amanpour's propaganda-style use of images and editing is her grossly misrepresenting American presidential views of settlement legalities. A videoclip shows former UN ambassador William Scranton saying: "Substantial resettlement of the Israeli civilian population in occupied territories, including east Jerusalem, is illegal."

Amanpour then declares: "Ever since, American presidents both Democrat and Republican have spoken from virtually the same script."

The next image is Ronald Reagan making a tangential comment framed as agreeing with Scranton. But Reagan explicitly did not speak from the same script. "As to the West Bank," he said in a February 1981 New York Times story, "I believe the settlements there, I disagreed when the previous [Carter] Administration referred to them as illegal, they're not illegal."

Nor, contrary to Amanpour's gloss, have other presidents, including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, termed settlements "illegal."

AMANPOUR is similarly deceptive and manipulative in other depictions of nefarious Jewish power, respectfully interviewing both Jimmy Carter and John Mearsheimer, and giving not the slightest hint of the gross factual errors in the charges leveled by the two controversial figures whose recent, incendiary allegations against Israel have been extensively debunked.

Carter declares absurdly that no member of Congress could vote against aid to Israel "and hope to be reelected." Amanpour does not, of course, remind him, or viewers, of the numerous members who have opposed aid to Israel and been repeatedly reelected, including Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd and more than a dozen representatives.

In another sequence meant to demonstrate the vast, coercive powers of the Jews, she claims the first president George Bush opposed loan guarantees for Israel but collapsed under the weight of Jewish pressure and backed down. In fact, Yitzhak Rabin was elected as prime minister to replace Yitzhak Shamir and offered concessions that satisfied the administration.

Israel backtracked - not Bush.

Numerous other falsehoods and distortions mar the production. Amanpour declares bizarrely that "the 40-year tug of war over Jerusalem began when Israel bulldozed the Arab neighborhood next to the Western Wall and built a plaza where Jews now pray." Obviously, the modern battle over Jerusalem "began" 60 years ago, when the Arabs attacked in 1948 to destroy the newborn State of Israel, seizing the eastern side of Jerusalem, including the Jewish quarter of the Old City. Every Jew was expelled or killed and all synagogues were destroyed. Thereafter, for 19 years, no Jew could pray at the Western Wall and Christians had limited access to their holy sites.

Such obtusely uninformed and biased claims betray Amanpour's agenda and reveal a derelict network where editorial oversight failed shockingly. CNN needs to correct every error and slander against Israel and its American supporters. Every one.


TOPICS: Editorial; Israel
KEYWORDS: antichristian; antisemite; cnn; enemedia; godswarriors; islamicsupremacist; jihad; jihadlover; moralequivalence; propaganda
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Jihadist murdering thugs aren't so bad, because you see, they're the real victims. And look, these Jews and Christians are just as bad. Jimmy Carter and John Mearsheimer say so.
1 posted on 08/30/2007 3:25:09 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

How did I miss this show? Oh, yeah...I don’t watch CNN.


2 posted on 08/30/2007 3:28:33 PM PDT by henkster (The dems have reserved your place on the collective farm.)
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To: mojito

Amanpour? She’s an arab. The enemy. What do you expect? And why would anyone expect fair coverage from CNN?


3 posted on 08/30/2007 3:43:04 PM PDT by Astronaut
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To: Astronaut

Let’s see...

According to the pre-1948 rules, both Jews and Arabs are permitted to settle anywhere in Palestine, borders to be determined later.

That’s never been rescinded, so Jews can ‘legally’ settle anywhere.

Prior to the 1920s, the Golan Heights were part of the British Palestine mandate. They were traded to French-controlled Syria in exchange for French acceptance of some British claims in Iraq. (So if anyone is to ‘return’ the Golan, it is Syria which should ‘return’ it to the inheritors of “British Palestine”, i.e., in this case, Israel.)

Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon (to name a few) violated the UN agreements and invaded the former British Palestine mandate and attempted to seize control for themselves of as much of it as they could. The only “illegal occupation” of any part of that land was by Jordan (1948-1967) and Egypt (in Gaza).

We could go on...


4 posted on 08/30/2007 3:56:39 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: SJackson
Ping
5 posted on 08/30/2007 3:57:30 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
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To: mojito
Image hosted by Photobucket.com do I really have to say it???

6 posted on 08/30/2007 4:10:52 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: mojito

Jimmy Carter calls Israel an example of “apartheid”. Funny, he needs to spend more time in the homeland of his Saudi masters. Saudi Arabia prohibits Jews from entering the country as official policy.


7 posted on 08/30/2007 4:15:51 PM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: mojito
It's not that they're biased, it that the viewers aren't smart enough to see the truth.

8/28/07, Brian Williams was asked about viewers in the rest of the country being "less than pleased" with the amount of coverage given on NBC Nightly News about the Gulf coast recovery effort. Here is his response:

"Well, as you know, Norman, in our business it isn't about popularity. We don't have kind of an instant push poll where we cover the news people want to see and hear. I think if that were the case our coverage of some of the sadder stories out of Iraq and Afghanistan where we have troops serving would end tonight. We can afford it. We can afford to maintain a full-time bureau in New Orleans. We can afford to devote as much airtime as we have in these 14 trips and you know, for a lot of Americans, life is very good thank you very much. They get up in other areas of the country, they go to work, they come home and sometimes without us, I fear, the Gulf region wouldn't be top-of-mind. They wouldn't know how many people are still hurting so people are always going to disagree with the calls we make and the news we cover but a certain portion of our job is about telling people what they should be concerned about, and their fellow citizens."
8 posted on 08/30/2007 4:18:56 PM PDT by james500
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I never watch or listen to anything she says. She is one of the most anti American scum I have ever seen.


9 posted on 08/30/2007 4:31:37 PM PDT by AZFolks
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...

Let’s see... to whom was she married again?


10 posted on 08/30/2007 4:36:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, August 29, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Astronaut

Amanpour is Iranian (Persian), not Arab.


11 posted on 08/30/2007 4:42:00 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

OK. But the Iranians are no friends of Israel, either.


12 posted on 08/30/2007 4:44:42 PM PDT by Astronaut
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To: Astronaut

True enough. Although I doubt her Iranian heritage has anything to do with it. Lots of libs hate Israel and they aren’t ethnically related to either side.


13 posted on 08/30/2007 4:48:43 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: SunkenCiv

All I did was Google ‘James Rubin’ -

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Help! I was only looking for information on James Rubin, Jewish husband of the ‘Persian Woman’ with an Iranian father named Mohammad, the woman who went to a Christian school in England...the one who ‘reports’ for CNN.

GOOGLE-ZAPPED!


14 posted on 08/30/2007 5:56:09 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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To: henkster

Unfortunately, I caught the episode on Christianity. The crux was that all Christians are a bunch of wacko, slackjawed Cotten Mathers. The occasional reasonable (ie. far left) Pastor who comes along gets chased out of town by people with torches and pitchforks. Oh yeah, they also spend their spare time firebombing abortion clincs. That pretty much sums it up.


15 posted on 08/30/2007 6:03:29 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: mojito

Christiane Amanpour hasn’t shaved her pits in 30 years. What does one expect from the Commie News Network?


16 posted on 08/30/2007 6:08:35 PM PDT by halfright (How come you never see any Suicide Mullahs?)
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To: mojito
Amanpour looks like a cheap, aging, Vegas transvestite.
17 posted on 08/30/2007 7:48:55 PM PDT by khnyny (The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away. Ronald Reagan)
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18 posted on 08/30/2007 7:52:04 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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19 posted on 08/31/2007 5:39:53 AM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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To: mojito

Christine Ahmawhore hates Jews and Christians just like all the Mooselips.

Pray for W and Our Troops
Shalom


20 posted on 08/31/2007 5:44:41 AM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground fighting FR BDS)
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