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17 December '10
Address to Honest Reporting conference, Jerusalem, 14 December 2010
We are living through a global campaign of demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel in which the western media are playing a key role.
The British media are the global leaders of this campaign in their frenzied and obsessional attacks on Israel. In the BBC in particular, such virulence attains unparalleled power and influence since it is stamped with the BBC’s global kitemark of objectivity and trustworthiness.
Israel’s every action is reported malevolently, ascribing to it the worst possible motives and denying its own victimisation. Instead of the truth, which is that every military action by Israel is taken solely to protect itself from attack, it is portrayed falsely as instigating the violent oppression of the Palestinians.
Tyranny around the world — such as the 20-year genocide in southern Sudan, or the persecution of Christians in Africa or Asia — goes almost unreported, as does Palestinian violence upon other Palestinians.
Yet Israel is dwelt upon obsessively, held to standards of behaviour expected of no other country and, with its own victimisation glossed over or ignored altogether, falsely accused of imposing wanton suffering.
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when you mention that Israel is "HELT TO STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR EXPECTED OF NO OTHER COUNTRY" I can´t help to see once again that Israel as the Jewish State is implicitly viewed and recognized to be morally superior. Same as hapends to the individual Jew; we are subject to moral standars that are overwhemly higher then any other Nation : Makes you wonder why the heck they held us in so great esteem...Why in fact they expect so much more of us; they may not have read the Torah but consider us nevertheless "like a Nation of priests" "a light upon the Nations" No special sarcasm ment; it´s just a fact. Denis Mohnblatt.
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