In America, “politically neutral” is defined as pro-Likud. Any negative reporting or legitimate critique is attacked as being “leftist.”
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That is just your uninformed opinion, with no factual basis.
i will tell you what happen the Palestian people in Gaza in there wisdom elected Hamas whose ManIfesto is to destroy Israel
The Hamas Manifesto
Ten Pronciples of Faith
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Hamas swears to conduct a holy war over Palestine against the Jews until Allah?tm)s victory is achieved.
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The land must be cleaned of the filth and evil of the tyrannical conquerors.
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Under the winds of Islam it is possible to have peaceful coexistence with other religious groups. But without Islamic rule over the Dome of the Rock, there can only be hatred, controversy, corruption, and repression.
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By command of the Prophet, Muslims might fight the Jews and kill them wherever they are.
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Hamas strives to set up an entity wherein Allah is the highest purpose, the Koran is the law, jihad (holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty it its means, and dying for the sake of Allah is the noblest wish.
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Palestine is a holy Islamic entity until the end of time. Therefore, it is non-negotiable and no one can give up any part of it.
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It is a personal, religious commandment for every Muslim to engage in the jihad until the land is redeemed.
8.Hamas opposes any kind of international talks or negotiations as well as any possible peace arrangement. Sovereignty over the land is strictly a religious matter and conducting negotiation over it means giving up some measure of control by (Islam?tm)s) believers.
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The Jews control the media and the world financial institutions. By means of revolution and war, and organizations, such as the Masons, Communists, capitalists, Zionists, Rotary, Lions, B?tm)nai B?tm)rith, and the like, they undermine human society as a whole in order to destroy it. By their evil corruption, they try to gain domination of the world by such institutions as the United Nations and its Security Council. More details of their iniquity be found in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Hamas opposes any secular state the PLO would seek to create in Palestine, since by definition it would be anti-Islamic. On the other hand, if the PLO would adopt Islam and follow its flag, then all of (the PLO?tm)s) members would become freedom fighters who would light the fire to consume the enemy.
and than they fire Rockets into Israel break the two cease fires
and get frustrated because Israel has the Iron Dome and use there people for human sheilds you people are not in the real world.
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Perhaps with both Engel and Mohyeldin reporting on the Israeli/Gaza situation, we’ll get a wider view of the conflict, and the Muslim bashers and Israeli bashers will have a bit less fodder for their fact-free ranting.
It would make Maxie wet himself in frustration.
When you start pulling real reporters who are providing first hand evidence because it might offend Bibi, you lose all your credibility. Not that the MSM has that much left. CNN better reinstate their reporter, too. She had a right to call those aiming weapons at reporters as scum.
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He was pulled for violating the rule that says to ignore the human aspects on the Palestinian side. He was sent back because that became obvious and, thankfully, embarrassing.
I don’t think all of this conspiracy-mongering is necessary to explain why NBC put Richard Engel, its top war-zone foreign correspondent, in charge of the Gaza story once it became prominent. That’s what they do with every story in the region.
If it wasn’t Richard Engel, I might look at this differently, but Engel isn’t some reflexive pro-Israel hack. He’s a serious guy with a deserved reputation for telling the truth and getting the story.
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Uh, Richard Engel is a “real reporter.” In fact, he’s probably the best “real reporter” they’ve got.
It’s not like they were replacing Mohyeldin with some out-of-his-depth newsreader. Richard Engel is NBC’s very top guy when it comes to overseas reporting, especially war reporting.
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I’ve been thinking for a while that American coverage of Israel has become more even-handed than it used to be. I think it began with that insane invasion of Lebanon in (IIRC) 2009, and Netanyahu’s blatant slaps at Obama and outrageous behavior only made things worse.
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The empirical evidence in this case is a brain. Even half a brain would do.
You need to learn what “empirical evidence” means.
He’s a grown man and can of course do as he pleases, but if I were him, HELL no I wouldn’t go back! Sometimes you get a clear and present warning.
Actually what I was thinking, if there was a possible non-bad motive for this, was that he and/or the other journalists around were the real targets of the strike, given he had been quite close to the boys and playing ball with them a few minutes before.
There’s nothing wrong with Engel per se AFAIK, but from the description of things he would continue to report out of Tel Aviv rather than going to Gaza himself.
Engel has a history of going right into the danger zones for his reporting.
Last year he was abducted and held hostage for a week, along with some other journalists.
His dedication to reporting from “where the action is” cost him his marriage, too.
You clearly don’t know anything about Richard Engel.
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No I don’t, because I don’t have a TV, but I’m going to bet he doesn’t decide where he’s assigned. And if there’s only one reporter for Tel Aviv + Gaza, that one goes to TA (or at least the more senior one does, which would be Engel).
It did not occur to me that the reporters might have been the targets, only that they witnessed the attack. That would be even more horrifying to deal with.
In the big picture, this guys reporting is just a speck of the never-ending tale. The actors are basically the same but some of their names have been changed and they aren’t out to protect the innocent.
There is no end in sight. Reporting or not reporting isn’t going to make any difference.
Weeks or months of reporting could be skipped and then restarted in the middle of whatever because it will always be the middle.
Peace talks and talking about peace talks gives a sense of false hope. This is a holy war that has no conventional ending nor rationale that can be agreed on. It’s all or nothing for both sides.
I remember being confused about the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a young boy and the news reporting about negotiating peace talks and the high hopes. It all still seems the same to me.
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Anwar Sadat came closest to brokering a peace-- and was assassinated for his efforts.
I imagine if reporters had somehow been dropped into the midst of the Crusades-- the reporting wouldn’t vary too much from what we’ve seen in this conflict over the past several decades.
And yeah, though I’ll admit to having been more attuned to the Jewish perspective thanks to loves, friendships, and associates-- I still am just as confused about how to view the neverending entanglement-- as I was 40 years ago.
The ‘needle on the meter’ moves every so often-- mostly with regard to Israeli political climate.
But it’s safe to say that until another Sadat-like figure succeeds in starting a peace-- that those like myself will forever straddle a fence nearer to the sidelines of this conflict.
jw1
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I was thinking about Jimmy Carter but the peace accords were with Egypt. Same region, different talks.
Jimmy Carter deserves much more credit than I believe he has ever received and which the Republicans wash over by always talking about his economic woes. Sadat and Begin both got the Nobel Prize for their efforts.
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