CBS News Reporter Aims at Jerusalem's City of David

inn ^ | 10/22/10 | Chana Ya'ar

[Nachum]

CBS television network anchor Lesley Stahl is up in arms over Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood – known to Jews as Shiloach, and home to the City of David archaeological excavations. The reporter from the long-running Sunday evening “60 Minutes” program narrated a segment this week on the City of David, produced by Shachar Bar-On.

During the segment, Stahl worked hard to cast aspersions on the validity of the archaeological findings in the City of David excavations and the unity of the city, and to delegitimize the presence of Jewish families in the area. The Jewish families are in houses bought by Jews, many of them Yemenites, before the creation of the State of Israel.

Describing a recent rock attack which ended badly when two of the young Arab rock throwers were hit by the car they had targeted as it swerved to avoid running over another young attacker, Stahl noted incidents in Silwan had “become violent.” Her comments, subtly editorialized, were carefully slanted to guide the viewer towards a Palestinian Authority viewpoint.

[Spok]

“Her comments, subtly editorialized, were carefully slanted to guide the viewer towards a Palestinian Authority viewpoint.”

The only news here is “subtly editorialized”. I quit watching 60 Minutes years ago, and it appears nothing has changed.

[alecqss]

Let’s wait and see if, for example, CBS comments to a botched burglary would be that the owners presence in their own house causes “violence”...

[MBB1984]

I watched that segment. It was purely a propaganda hit piece. It questioned the audacity of Jews buying land in legitimate transactions from Palestinians in the area. It questioned legitimate archeology. It questioned whether King David ever existed. It tried to show Jews as evil perpetrators when they were acting in self defense as Palestinians were pelting their vehicles with rocks.

It was nothing more than a hit piece on Israel and eerily reminiscent of Goebbels.

[Puppage]

It questioned the audacity of Jews buying land in legitimate transactions from Palestinians in the area

To which my wife commented 'Like the building of a mosque near Ground Zero?"

I would have LOVED to have asked her that.

[massgopguy]

The Jewish population of Jerusalem in 1899 was 20,000. There was a Jewish majority in Jerusalem at the outbreak of WW II. So much so that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wanted Hitler to bomb it.

[onedoug]

But for the appellation of the ancient Romans, there is no so-called “palestine”, nor are there any “palestinians” but for various conglomerations of predominantly islamist arabs who should rather be killed en masse, but which Israel, for whatever God forsaken reason, has convinced itself it must put up with.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Rick “Killer” Sanchez must be wondering why he got fired for anti-Semitism....while Lesley Stahl and CBS get to report a story and slant it anti-Semitic

[Heart of Georgia]

“It questioned whether King David ever existed.”

I feel that this has been thought out well, and they think they’re clever. They first question David’s existence - while at the same time questioning the authenticity of the artifacts - and when they’re through casting doubt, they’ll have solved their “Jew problem” once and for all (in their minds). That’s what they’re up to here, no doubt.

Israel has artifacts that prove David purchased the threshing floor [Mount Moriah/The Temple Mount]. If they want to claim David didn’t exist, they’ll have to create doubts that these records may be fake. If they’re able to do that, they’ll go for broke. What claim then do the Jewish people have regarding Jerusalem - except as it pertains to all of Abraham’s heirs - including Palestinians.

A bonus for them: If David didn’t exist, it puts into question the legal and maternal ancestry - and the prophetic birth - of Jesus Christ.