Karl Vick's Latest Vilification Atrocity

The headline of Karl Vick's latest media atrocity is

How Not to Deal with Non-Violence: A Death in the West Bank

on the death of an Arab protestor who was violently attacking Israel security forces with rocks, and chasing an Army vehicle with intent to cause physical injury.

Here, see the picture TIME doesn't show.

And here's Vick's story:-

...In Nabi Saleh, nothing can be attacked by remote control. Usually, the protesters march toward the soldiers. The soldiers move toward the marchers. Sometimes a rock is thrown first. During lulls, Israeli activists get into the soldiers’ faces, usually asking terse questions, sometimes shouting. On Friday, according to the activists, Israeli forces made the first move, sounding a siren and firing canisters of tear gas high into the air, aimed upwind, to blow toward the demonstrators.

...Activists carry cameras as well, assuring Mustafa Tamimi a well-documented death. In the frames published online, the young man, a distant relative of Bassem Tamimi, is seen standing in the road, just behind an armored truck. The back door of the truck is opened just enough for the barrel of a weapon. The smoke from its barrel hangs in the air. The tear-gas canister is actually visible, caught in midair as it passes the truck’s side-view mirror, halfway between the door and Mustafa Tamimi’s face, which it would destroy.

Look again at that picture. Tamimi is chasing the vehicle, still throwing rocks from fairly close range. See all five photographs.

Do you think Vick is a relaible reporter?

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Even Better Than Angelina

Her father, who spoke out against TIME:

Outspoken actor Jon Voight picked a fight with Time Warner on Sunday when he slammed their flagship magazine Time on Fox News Channel's "Huckabee" for being anti-Semitic. The video didn't hit the web until Tuesday. Watch below (it begins around the two-minute mark).

"This is anti-Semitism," Voight said of the Sep. 13 edition, which features a Star of David and the cover line, "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace."

Voight said, "Who are the anti-Semites who are running Time Magazine?"

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The Tradition of Time/Newsweek Magazine Covers

Now:



Then:-



Did anyone say anti-Israel, anti-Jewish?


Omri has some more here.

And check out Honest Reporting.




(Kippah tip: JD)


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On Dov "Dubek" Weinstock

At TIME's Tim McGirk's blog which starts:-

Whenever I’m tempted to make snap judgments about Israel, I remind myself of Dubak, “The Bear”. Try to imagine Mad Max as a middle aged Jewish settler. Dubak was built square. He reminded me of a rusty old washing-machine, with a mass of contradictions spinning inside him.

Dubak, whose real name was Dov Vineshtok, was that rare species of Israeli: one who had actual contact with Arabs. When an Israeli hiker got lost in the desert, Dubak would hop onto his dune buggy, round up some Bedouin scouts and find the hiker before the vultures got to him.

On our last ride with him, to the cliffs above the Dead Sea, we passed an olive grove. Along the road, a row of the ancient trees was cut to stumps, amputated. “I did that,” said Dubak. “The Arabs were throwing rocks at the settler’s cars. And after I cut down the first row, I told the Arabs that if one of our cars was hit by another rock, I would cut down a second row. And you know what? The rock-throwing stopped.”

I'll Take One from Column B

This is my kind of math:-

A math question: if it took 3,000 Israeli troops and police to evict two families of Jewish settlers from the West Bank city of Hebron, how many would it take to clear out the 275,000 Jewish settlers living inside the Palestinian territories?

Two possible answers: a) it would require nearly every single policeman and soldier on duty in Israel today; b) zero, because it simply won't happen.

It comes from this story:-

Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007
The West Bank: Mission Critical

By TIM MCGIRK/HEBRON

Despite pressure by the Bush Administration and the rest of the international community for Israel to withdraw many of its Jewish citizens from 220 hilltop settlements and outposts in the disputed West Bank, such a move could be so divisive in Israel that no Prime Minister, especially one as embattled as Ehud Olmert, would risk it...But public opinion shifted against him after last summer's bungled war in Lebanon, and now he is too unpopular to try uprooting thousands of angry Jewish settlers, even though Israel's withdrawal is regarded as vital to any lasting accord with the Palestinians.

...Interviews with officers, enlisted men and rabbis show that opposition to evicting Jewish settlers from Palestinian territories is widespread inside the army. One senior officer told TIME: "As a soldier, I'd prefer it if the government doesn't assign me the task of evacuating Jewish settlers, but if that's the mission, I promise we'll carry it out."

What worries politicians is that the religious Zionists, many born and raised in the West Bank settlements, are assuming a greater role as officers and soldiers inside élite combat units. Lieut. Colonel Dotan Razili, a commander at the Officers' Training Academy in the Negev Desert, estimates that 30% of his cadets are religious Zionists, even though they make up only 9% of the Israeli population, according to census figures.

By all accounts, the religious Zionists are brave, well disciplined and tough fighters. As kids, they also grew up seeing the menace of terror first hand; settlers were often targets of Palestinian snipers and bombers. But these settlers' sons bring their ideology with them into the army, and may prove resistant to any future withdrawal of settlers. They believe that Israel should not cede a single stone of Biblical land to the Palestinians.

...The profile of the Israeli army is changing. Increasingly, today's soldier wears a yarmulke, the skullcap of the religious conservative. In the past, a majority of Israel's fighting officers came from agricultural communes, known as kibbutzim, and from villages. Over the past 15 years or so, kibbutz members have traded socialism for the materialistic individualism so prevalent in Israeli society.

...Support for Olmert's plans to remove settlers has ebbed. So far, his government has failed to find homes and jobs for many of the 8,500 embittered settlers evicted from Gaza in 2005. Nor has the handover of Gaza to Palestinians brought any calm: Palestinian militants continue to shower southern Israel with erratic homemade rockets fired from Gaza. Olmert must first win back popular support for his disengagement plans before he can bring the military on board.

Given the Israelis' displeasure with Olmert's policy of disengagement from the Palestinian territories, it was not surprising that a poll taken by Ha'aretz after the Hebron skirmish found that 32% of Israelis think the refuseniks were justified in disobeying orders. For Olmert the answer is thus not just a simple equation of troops versus settlers. He must also factor in the rising numbers within the army ranks who are in no mood to evict fellow Jews from Arab territories and the sizable portion of the public that supports that sentiment. Any way you look at it, it adds up to a daunting political dilemma.

With reporting by AARON J. KLEIN/OTNIEL

Jamil Hammad

Jammil Hammad visited us at Shiloh when we were newcomers. I'll never forget is funny, high-pitched laugh. He came with Ricki Rosen, the photographer, and a TIME magazine editor. My wife always tells the story of how they tried to take a picture of her holding my rifle and she steadfatstly refused saying she never holds a rifle and therefore, such a picture would be staged and unethical.

Anyway, Jamil is in hot water with CAMERA which informs us that on March 5th, Time Magazine published "No Room for Civility at the Checkpoint," by Jamil Hamad. Hamad writes that checkpoints are "humiliating," "collective punishment," that they encourage Palestinians to vote for terrorist groups, that they are " 'an invitation for the terrorists to try another way' ", and finally, that they are useless since he personally has never seen a bomber caught at the checkpoint he often goes through.

But what really caught my eye was this, which I confess, I never knew:-

Hamad confessed to hiring kidnapper of his boss. Victim never found.

This isn't the first time that Hamad has made himself the subject of news stories. In 1975, Hamad confessed to hiring Yasser Karaki to kidnap Hamad's boss, Yusef Nasr, editor of the Al Fajr newspaper. (Jerusalem Post, April 28, 1975) Nasr reportedly had been about to fire Hamad from his deputy editor position. (Jerusalem Post, March 14). Nasr has never been heard from again and his body has never been found. The Post confirmed that Hamad had testified in court as a state witness and hence was not charged. (Jerusalem Post, June 13, 1975)

It's odd that Time magazine would employ someone who confessed to arranging and paying for the kidnapping of his own boss (presumed also to be a murder victim).

Is Hamad's boss perhaps afraid to challenge him, afraid to say no to outrageously biased reporting, lest he too suddenly disappear?