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by Judith Bergman
• November 15, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The arrogant
claim to the moral high ground by European elites has no basis in
reality.
- There is no
respect for freedom and democracy on a continent where citizens,
such as the politician Geert Wilders, are arrested and prosecuted by
in a court of law for speaking their minds freely about topics that
the authorities find it expedient not to debate in public.
- Freedom,
respect for the rule of law, and people's race, religion and gender
have never been less respected and protected in Germany
during the post-WWII era than under Merkel. German authorities have
completely failed to protect women, Christians and others from the
chaos unleashed by the mass, unvetted, immigration of mainly Muslim
migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The rule of law is
anything but "respected" in Germany.
- Not everyone is
"panicking". UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, rejected
the invitation and told his colleagues to end their "collective
whinge-o-rama" about the U.S. election result.
- Critics of the
U.S. election omitted, however, the runaway lawlessness,
divisiveness and corruption that American voters declined to
reinstate.
"A world is collapsing before our eyes", tweeted the
French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, as it became clear
that Donald Trump had won the US presidential election. Although he later
apparently deleted the tweet, the sentiment expressed in his tweet
encapsulates the attitude of the majority of the European political
establishment.
Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, described
the reaction to Trump's victory across Germany's political spectrum as
"shock and uncertainty." Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen
described Trump's win as a "heavy shock." German Justice
Minister Heiko Maas tweeted: "The world won't end, but things will
get more crazy".
Green party leader Cem Özdemir called Trump's election a "break
with the tradition that the West stands for liberal values."
Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said:
by Yves Mamou
• November 15, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Biased
information about Israel in the French press is not an episodic
occurrence. It is a systematic one. The main engine of this biased
information industry is blatantly the Agence France Presse.
- It is so
thoroughly a "pro-Palestinian news agency" that this
French institution, does not see anything unethical about hiring
Palestinian activists as reporters: "Nasser Abu Baker, the
chairman of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, the leading
force for the boycott of Israeli journalists and media, also writes
for the influential French news agency."
- The same bias
appears in the media and news agencies all over the developed world,
including Reuters, the BBC and the AP. Why, when it comes to Israel,
is such a misinterpretation of reality so generalized in the press?
The only answer is that a war is in progress: a war of
delegitimization.
When Palestinians murder Israelis in vehicle-ramming
attacks, Agence France Press never labels the murderer a
"terrorist." All of them are "activists,"
"militants" or "attackers." But when a Tunisian-born
Islamist terrorist murdered 84 people in Nice, France in July 2016, by
ramming a truck into a crowd of people (pictured above), the AFP called
that "terror." (Image source: Sky News video screenshot)
On July 15, 2016, after the truck ramming that killed 84
people in Nice, France, Agence France Presse (AFP) released a
report entitled, "When Vehicles Become Weapons". It is the duty
of a large news agency such as AFP to list, for its customers, examples
of countries that are suffering from vehicular terrorism.
Concerning Israel, we can read in the third paragraph: "In
Israel and the Palestinian territories, car-ramming attacks have featured
heavily in a wave of violence that has killed at least 215 Palestinians,
34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese since October last
year".
A naïve reader might understand that in Israel and Palestinian
territories, Jews and Muslims -- or Israelis and Palestinians -- find it
amusing to use their vehicles to kill innocent passersby. He might think
also that Jews are far better players of this gamer than are Muslims,
because they killed "215 Palestinians" against only "34
Israelis."
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