A letter that was recently sent to Reuters was kindly forwarded to Jihad Watch:
"Dear Editor:
"Why do you slant the news in favor of terrorists? Why do you call suicidal maniacs driven by the ideology of Jew-hatred and genocide 'activists' and 'freedom fighters'? You know they are funded by Saudi Arabia, Iran and other terrorist supporting countries. You know they have sophistocated weapons. Why do you not reveal their true intentions?
"Why do you conceal the facts about Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah etc? Why do you not mention that they are waging chemical and biological warfare against Israeli civilians? Surely you know that their bombs are laced with rat poison in order to compound suffering and insure death. Surely you know that many of the suicide bombers have AIDS, hepatitus and other diseases -- that is why they are chosen -- and that their tissue fragments become imbedded in the tissue of their victims. If you do not know about these details, why not interview Israeli emergency room doctors? They will tell you more than you want to know. They will show you x rays of victims with nuts, bolts and nails lodged in brains, hearts, muscle and other vital organs that cannot be removed surgically. Have you ever inquired of your 'freedom fighters' why they pack their bombs with shrapnel and lace them with poison? Is their love of liberty so great that shrapnel imbedded in babies' brains is a must? Why not ask these questions?
"Perhaps you have asked them in private, amongst yourselves. If you have not, then I give you more credit than you deserve. I cannot believe that you are so willfully ignorant that you have not already encountered this information on your own. It is not being hidden from view. Any idiot can stumble upon it. Then, if you do know these facts, why are you not stating them publicly? In your position, only public statements matter. It is your job to represent the facts. If you are in business to promote your political agenda and it is pro-'Palestinian' -- as it appears to be -- then say so publicly so that the world will not be fooled. Otherwise, you are merely propagandists, deliberately indoctrinating the unsuspecting with concepts of heinous irrationality. Do you really want people to believe there is a moral equivalency between a suicide bomber and its Israeli victims or the Israeli soldiers defending civilians against barbaric terror?
"Your denials are unacceptable. Too much evidence supports all of the assumptions presented here. Please respond."
A friend of mine is a journalist for Reuters. I asked him about why they seem to slant the news in favor of the Muslims and terrorists. He agreed with my observations and told me that the editors -- not necessarily the journalists themselves – are very left-wing and biased in their views. He said their not really apologetic about it either. Actually, they’re pretty browbeat about it too. What a lot of people don’t know is that if the journalists actually used the word terrorist in their pieces, it would result in immediate termination.
He hated writing for them, but the financial benefits were good.
Anyways, it’s good to know that Reuters is losing a fortune while like-institutions, such as Bloomberg, are making hefty profits. Obviously, they’re pissing some people off. Wealthy Jews, perhaps? Never bit the hand that feeds you…
Stunningly good article. It touches on the fact that even though American media, such as Fox News, puts on a "conservative christian covering", they are honestly against America and her freedoms we and our family all fought so hard for, and even died for. I've never seen such ignorance, intentional ignorance even, expressed so often by educated men in my entire life.
I wish to thank you for having the courage, and the heart's desire, to see the truth reported. Even though it seems that the overwhelming majority of the public are not interested in the truth, you have the courage to report it. For that I do sincerely thank God. In this day more then any other day, men with courage are needed more then any other day in the history of the world.
Kol Hakavod to Robert. His letter "says it like it is."
The real consequences for people who survive Arab suicide bombings are rarely mentioned in the general media, a fact which infuriates me and many others I'm sure. Robert is able to articulate both the facts and the anger without being vulgar.
Wow. I appreciate the efforts of this letter, but if Reuters could BE made to feel any shame over their busted moral compasses, they would have by now. Any letter that appeals to conscience with brutal fact and logic is going to go into a Reuters' editor one ear and right out the other.
Letters like this fill my soul with hope, but I know they're wasted on the likes of Reuters' journalists and editors.
Sylvia Navon:
Thank you, but I am not the author of the letter.
Cordially,
RS
When I see a Reuters article, I generally skip past it, and If I do read it, I always look for another more reliable source. I would never quote it, unless to poke fun at it.
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