Ridiculous media bias against Israel: Israeli soldiers did not enter Lebanon, as was widely reported

once again the media!!! so what on earth can a normal person do when witnessing such abomination, such hypocrisy, such blatant double standards??? is there still hope or decency is a thing of the past?

Reuters, Yahoo, AP, The New York Times... What does it matter? Anyone in the West with half a brain should know by now that traditional journalism is practically dead and that today's so-called mainstream journalism is as non-partisan as are the teachers' unions and AARP. All function as an arm of the Democratic Party in the United States or, with similar organizations, for left-wing parties in other Western nations.

And for all those out there who decry partisanship in the attempt to oppose Islamic supremacist designs, get real. The modern Western Left continuously trashes Israel, America and all the West. One knows this or should know it. There are right now two great enemies of Western Civilization and not one. Islam is the first and modern liberalism is the second. No surprise, of course, to see these two as cozy bedfellows often times.

Getting very tired of those on the Left who correctly grasp that Islam is no good but who continue to maintain that opposing Islam should not be partisan. Talk about getting things half-assed right. The greatest ally of Islam's nefarious goals is Leftthink, which has even infested some conservative circles. Islam in conjunction with Leftthink could spell the end of Western Civilization. I wonder how many modern liberals grasp this? Not enough would be my take.

The days of Edward R. Murrow are long gone.

It's not news! It's entertainment! There are ratings to consider! Anti Jew is in and therefore gets best ratings and more dollars for commercials. The show must go on!

My Lebanese neighbor whom (once upon a time when I was living in Never Never Land) I had been friendly with went home for a visit and came back and introduced me to words like Kafir, wudu (my wonderful dog was standing outside her front door, never was a problem before) dhimmi and ramjan (whatever the word for stoning is) Just can't get it up for the Leb's anymore! Slimy lot!

Reuters and Yahoo don't like Israel, so they are playing the 'Lets you and him fight' game...

wellington, you have made the case very eloquently and i am in total agreement with you. BUT, i think that this is just not enough! media is an extremely powerful element, which obviously is being missused. so the question is, is there something more tangible (tachless, if you know the word :)), that could be done to counter this?

Thank God for the Internet, so we can find out what is really going on.

And suppose it is partly true? If I were an Israeli soldier on that assignment, and finding myself under fire saw that the nearest shelter was a large rock three feet across the border, you can guess what I would do. I'd take shelter there and return fire, and I'd be justified in doing so. Any description of such action as provocative would be a lie.

Any word as to the nationalities of the reporters on the Israeli side of the border? It probably would make little difference, Israel reportedly has its own problems with a partly Utopian media. just curious.

Just another in a long line of despicable displays by the media. I've been saying it for years now; as bad as politicians are, most of the crap they get away with is because journalists don't report their shady and downright dishonest actions accurately to the American people!!

And while it's true that you can find the truth on the Internet, the fact is lots of people accept the lame stream as fact and don't even question their biased baloney!!

Everyone covering that part of the world knows perfectly well that the fence there is not coincidental with the border, and that in some places the fence stops short of the border, so that the Israelis were still, clearly, on the Israeli side and not in Lebanon. The fact that a senior Israeli army officer was there, simply standing, as would be the case for routine maintenance but less likely if, for some reason, the dastardly Israelis had decided to wantonly attack the Lebanese army -- the same army that the Americans are building up, and supplying with all kinds of weaponry, just as they are the "Palestinian" security forces, and the half-million men in Iraq (or perhaps I have undercoutned) and the three hundred thousand Muslims, army and police, under arms in Afghanistan.

What a brilliant and far-sighted use of money, by the American government, that did not consult those who are actually paying all these expenses and who, one suspects, have had their fill, and then some, of this strategy of throwing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars into the military buildup and other sorts of aid lavished so limitlessly on Muslim armies, Muslim police, Muslim peoples or, in the sole case of Lebanon, on an army whose Christians have certainly been greatly subdued with the threat of Hezbollah omnipresent, and behind it, Syria, and behind Syria, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A Christian of Lebanon:

Archbishop Ignace Moubarac Of Beirut, In 1947, On "The Two Homelands"

Beirut, 5 August 1947

Mr. Justice Sandstrom, Chairman, UNSCOP
Geneva,
Switzerland.

Sir:

I regret that my absence in Europe coincided with the visit of the Special Committee on Palestine to the Lebanon, otherwise I should have had an opportunity to speak and to expressmy opinion - which is,moreover, that of the majority of the Lebanese people with regard to this question.

This is not the first time I have voiced my opinion on this matter. A lot of ink has already been used and after each of my complaints the world press has seized upon my words and made ample comment on everything I said.

Here in the Middle East, which is for the most part Moslem, if the present Lebanese Government is recognized as having an official right to speak on behalf of the Lebanese nation, we should feel disposed to answer and prove that the present rulers represent only themselves and that their so-called official statements are dictated only by the needs of the moment and by the imposed solidarity binding this preeminently Christian country to the other Islamic countries which surround it on all sides and enclose it, volens nolens, in their politico-economic orbit.

By reason of its geographical position, history, culture and traditions, the nature of its inhabitants and their attachment to their faith and ideals, the Lebanon has always, even under the Ottoman yoke, kept itself out of the clutches of the other nations surrounding it and has succeeded in maintaining its tradition intact.

Palestine, on the other hand, the ideological centre of all Old and New Testament,has always been the victim of all the troubles and persecutions. From time mmemorial, anything with any historical significance has always been ransacked, plundered and mutilated. Temples and churches have been turned into mosques and the role of that eastern part of the Mediterranean has, not without reason, been reduced to nothing.

It is an incontestable historical fact that Palestine was the home of the Jew and of the first Christians. None of them was of Arab origin. By the brutal force of conquest they were forced to become converts to the Moslem religion, That is the origin of the Arabs in that country. Can one deduce from that that Palestine is Arab or that it ever was Arab?

Historical vestiges, monuments and sacred mementos of the two religions remain alive there as evidence of the fact that this country was not involved in the internal war between the princes and monarchs of Iraq and Arabia. The Holy Places, the temples, the Wailing Wall, the churches and the tombs of the prophets and saints, in short, all the relics of the two religions, are living symbols, which alone invalidate the statements now made by those who have little interest in making Palestine an Arab country. To include Palestine and the Lebanon within the group of Arab countries is to deny history and to destroy the social balance in the Near East.

These two countries, these two homelands[Lebanon and the Jewish National Home as a successor to Mandatory Palestine] have proved up till now that it is both useful and necessary for them to exist as separate and independent entities.

The Lebanon, first of all, has always been and will remain a sanctuary for all the persecuted Christians of the Middle East. It was there that the Armenians who escaped extermination in Turkey found refuge. It was there that the Chaldeans of Iraq found a place of safety when driven from their country. It was there that the Poles, in plight from a blazing Europe, took refuge. it was there that the French, forced out of Syria, found protection. It was there that the British families of Palestine, fleeing from terrorism, found refuge and protection.

The Lebanon and Palestine must continue to be the permanent home of minorities.

What has the role of the Jews been in Palestine? Considered from this angle, the Palestine of 1918 appears to us a barren country, poor, denuded of all resources, the least developed of all the Turkish vilayets. The Moslem-Arab colony there lived an the borderline of poverty. Jewish immigration began, colonies were formed and established, and in less than twenty years the country was transformed: agriculture flourished, large industries were established, wealth came to the country. The presence of such a well-developed and industrious nation, next to the Lebanon could not but contribute to the welfare of all - the Jew is a man of practical executive ability, the Lebanese is highly adaptable and, for that reason, their proximity could only servo to better the living conditions of the inhabitants.

From the cultural point of view these two nations may boast that they have as many cultured and intellectual people as all the other countries of the Near East put -, together. It is not fair that the LAW should be imposed by an ignorant majority desirous of imposing its will.

It would not be fair to allow a million advanced and educated human being to be the plaything of a few interested persons who happen to be at the head of affairs, who lead several million backward and unprogressive people and dictate the LAW as they please. There is an order in the world, an order which establishes the proper balance. if the United Nations are really desirous of maintaining this order, it must do everything possible to consolidate it.

Major reasons of a social, humanitarian and religious nature require the creation, in these two countries, of two homelands for minorities: a Christian home in the Lebanon, as there has always been~ a Jewish home in Palestine. These two centres connected with each other geographically, and supporting and assisting each other economically, will form the necessary bridge between West and East, from the viewpoint of Culture and Civilization. The neighborly relations between these two nations will contribute to the maintenance of peace in the Near East, which is so divided by rivalries, and will lessen the persecution of minorities, which will always find refuge it these two countries.,

That is the opinion of the Lebanese whom I represent; it is the opinion of this people whom your Committee of Enquiry was unable to hear.

Behind the closed doors of the Sofar Hotel you were able to listen only to the words dictated to our so-called legal representatives bythelords and masters of the neighboring Arab countries. The real voice of the Lebanese was smothered by the group who falsified the elections of 25 May.

THE LEBANON DEMANDS FREEDOM FOR THE JEWS IN PALESTINE AS IT DESIRES ITS OWN FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE.

I have the honour to be, etc.,

(Signed) Ignace Mobarac (Mubarak)

Maronite Archbishop of Beirut.

I thank God for sites like this. Nowadays whenever I watch the news and it features anything about Israel I immediately check the facts. The BBC is probably the worst offender as they are so biased that a lot of people now call it the British Biased Corporation. Israel is on a hiding to nothing if it expects fair treatment from the majority of the media, who are dominated by Left-think and I am sick and tired of hearing the whining of the Liberals about the "poor, oppressed Muslims". I also just heard that the abomination next to the Twin Towers is to go ahead. Osama thinks its a "local issue". Sometimes I despair, however I always pick myself up and carry on - what other choice is there ?

UNIFIL confirms IDF claims

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ
08/04/2010 08:14

Official:Army informed us of maintenance beforehand; Lebanese knew.

A UNIFIL official in soutnern Lebanon confirmed Wednesday that the IDF informed the organization of its intention to conduct routine maintenance work Tuesday in the area between Israel's border fence and the international border where Lebanese Army forces opened fire on IDF soldiers, killing Lt.-Col. (res) Dov Harari, Army Radio reported.

"I can confirm that we received notification from the IDF about the work and we passed the information on to the Lebanese Army," said the Hungarian diplomat who is part of the UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=183597

Hugh, what a fantastic piece from the Palestine Post!
That's going in my archives.

I remember reading years ago another letter, from an Archbishop, also in the Palestine Post. It was very long and spoke about the nature of the Muslim Arabs living in the area.
He instanced an Arab boy who threw away a bicycle that did not work. It lay abandoned in the road and along came another child (probably Jewish, can't recall), took it away,
cleaned it and fixed it up and rode it around.
When the Arab boy saw the bike fixed up he immediately threw a tantrum and wanted it back.
The Archbishop used this story to encapsualte all that was wrong with the Mulsim Arab occupiers of Palestine.

I hasten to add that there is plenty of jealousy and incompetence in this world, and there are many children (and for that matter, adults) who would have acted as that Arab child acted. However, that example of the Archbishop really typified his experience and observations of that part of the world, and the worldview contrast in those children is very telling.
(I regret I can't recall the exact name of this archbishop - perhaps Google can help, the Pali Post archives are online).

In the same vein, I came across an interesting extract about Muslims from book: The Bible in Spain or the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow, 1842]

In this quote, the author is in Tangier:

"The [British] consul soon asked me what I thought of the Moors and their country; I told him that what I had hitherto seen of both highly pleased me.

He said that were I to live amongst them ten years, as he had done, he believed I should entertain a very different opinion; that no people in the world were more false and cruel; that their government was one of the vilest description, with which it was next to an impossibility for any foreign power to hold amicable relations, as it invariably acted with bad faith, and set at nought the most solemn treaties.

That British property and interests were every day subjected to ruin and spoliation, and British subjects exposed to unheard-of vexations, without the slightest hope of redress being afforded, save recourse was had to force, the only argument to which the Moors were accessible.

He added, that towards the end of the preceding year an atrocious murder had been perpetrated in Tangier: a Genoese family of three individuals had perished, all of whom were British subjects, and entitled to the protection of the British flag. The murderers were known, and the principal one was even now in prison for the fact, yet all attempts to bring him to condign punishment had hitherto proved abortive, as he was a Moor, and his victims Christians.
Finally, he cautioned me not to take walks beyond the wall unaccompanied by a soldier, whom he offered to provide for me should I desire it, as otherwise I incurred great risk of being ill-treated by the Moors of the interior whom I might meet, or perhaps murdered,and he instanced the case of British officer who not long since had been murdered on the beach for no other reason than being a Nazarene, and appearing in a Nazarene dress."

The letter by Archbishop Moubarac of Beirut can be found as one of the appendices in "Islam and Dhimmitude," by Bat Ye'or, a book that has become, at this point, and all over the West, indispensable for making sense of what is happening, and if that book were read and assimilated by those who are in power -- the very people who have gotten out of the habit -busy, busy, busy! -- of reading anything other than bullet-riddled Executive Summaries or Talking Points -- there would be a lot less unwariness, and unawareness, and policies would not be so confused, so unimaginative, so wasteful.

Lebanon's "wonderfulness" at the moment is an optical illusion. Its government is corrupt, and even the Christians in that government do not stand up for the Christians, and prove their bonafides to the Muslims by exhibiting all the anti-Israel hostility and hatred that they know is the best way for them to win (most temporary) Muslim support, or at least freedom from active oppression.

And though the Lebanese Army needs to deal with Hezbollah, it makes no sense to provide that army with the most advanced weaponry unsuitable for the kind of fighting that would have to be engaged in against Hezbollah, but perfectly suitable -- and who knows who will control these weapons, given that the Stinger missiles sent by the American government to be used against the Soviets have ended up being used, not always unsuccessfully, against American helicopters, planes, and drones, and the weapons supplied to the Shah of Iran that were then used by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and so on. The Western governments keep making the same mistakes, avoiding learning any lessons about advanced weapons and governments of countries run by, and largely populated by, Muslims.

Ehud Barak was interviewed about the Lebanese attack. In the course of that interview Barak "reiterated Israel's opposition to the transfer of advanced weaponry to the Lebanese army by France and the US. Some of that weaponry was used in the incident on Tuesday, Barak noted."

Make sure members of Congress are made aware of this use of such weaponry, and that they publicly demand that the Administration

1) investigate the incident and find out what the Lebanese fired on Israeli soldiers who were on Israeli soil, doing what they do routinely - maintaining their ability to monitor a permanent threat from southern Lebanon

2) study what the government of Lebanon says about this incident

3) prepare a document that lists all the weapons to be supplied, or that have been supplied, to the government of Lebanon

4) present an explanation for the choice of weaponry supplied, and to explain its relevance to urban fighting against Hezbollah

5) include, in that study, a summary of all the weaponry that the American government has in the past 35 years supplied to Muslim forces -- the Iranian military under the Shah, the muhajideen in Afghanistan -- that are now in the possession of people deeply hostile to us.

6) include, in that study, information about the use of American weaponry by the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Stinger missiles that may have been used against drones, helicopters, and planes.

That's a start. But that's the minimum that in a rightly-ordered universe, would be demanded by Congress.l

No, strike that. In a rightly-ordered universe, there would be no transfer of such weaponry from any non-Muslim state to a Muslim one. For the perils of that, and the prospect of use against us or against other non-Muslims, would be well understood.

Leftist magazine "Spiegel Online" supports Israel's version of events. Here's an alternative version by the leftist German media:

http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2F0%2C1518%2C710101%2C00.html&sl=de&tl=en

This is the link to the original German site:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,710101,00.html

I completely agree with your causes, but comparing mainstream media to child molesters is absurd. It also tarnishes this website's credibility.

hello rubat sbunsar, calling people child molester eh? you lose all credibility points

you are anti-Islam and anti-people who wants to peacefully introduce the beautiful islamic justice in the world

Also noticed was how a reporter was present at the Lebanese soldier funeral. NO ONE reported about the sad family of the Israeli soldier. MEDIA BIAS IS SICKENING !!!

For Muslims lying and deceit is a prescribed weapon against us infidels and unbelievers. Unfortunately it is a contagious disease and the media have caught it too. A bit like swine flu, except self-inflicted.
The truth is losing the battle against evil and hate. What a sad day for the level-headed and rational thinkers of this world when lies are as readily digested as a box of popcorn at the movies - obliviously stuffing oneself full of rubbish.
I just wonder when the alarm bells will ring in the west. Hopefully before we have to fight back to where we were before the silent and not-so-silent Muslim invasion of our worlds.

In regards to a Christian of Lebonan. I have been a member for just short of a week and cannot believe some of the statements and ideas people have and their reasonings and how they blow things so out of proportion. I was at a Bible Study this evening and a gentleman asked that we pray for one of our young men in Afghanistan who had been unfortunate to be hit by one of their crazy bombers and lost both of his legs. Cruel? Respect for human lives? Stupidity? Ignorance? Yes all of these things are true. So what are we doing there? Leave them alone to kill each other snd live in slovenly poverty. We cannot benefit by anything we do there and never will. How many years have they been fighting? Go to the one and only true source and read the true facts THE BIBLE. And read it from beginning to end and then tell me who is in control and how much power he has to end it all in the twinkling of a eye. How many people in the world are ready and know that God says there will be few in Heaven and we will all have to own up for our actions here on earth. THERE WILL BE NO ATHEISTS IN HELL!!! Now put that one in your pipe and smoke it! I'm a 72 year old woman high school GED graduate pretty literate in technology but plain old everday English and Gods word is still what we must listen to and follow. I close with AMEN so be it!