Israeli Diplomat: 'all terrorists are Muslim'

Monday July 17th 2006, 8:08 am

 

Imagine a member of the KKK going on the Bill O’Reilly show and declaring all African-Americans are shiftless crackheads. Imagine the outrage and calls for Fox News to be investigated for promoting racism and hatred. Now imagine an Israeli diplomat going on Bill O’Reilly’s show and declaring all Muslims are terrorists. In fact, this happened, and nobody is calling the diplomat, Dan Gillerman, Israeli Ambassador to the UN, a racist or are there demands Fox News be investigated for promoting racism and hatred. In Bushzarro world, it is fine and dandy to characterize all Muslims as terrorists.

 

“While it is politically incorrect to say that all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, it’s true that all terrorists are Muslim,” Gillerman said on O’Reilly’s show yesterday, July 16.

 

I picked up this quote from a blog. It was not mentioned in the corporate media. A Google News search returned no results. Either the people who post at the Truth Will Set You Free blog made the quote up or Israelis spewing racist hatred is so common and acceptable nobody bothered to mention it.

 

Of course, when Iran’s Ahmadinejad says anything about Israel, it is front page news. In fact, so eager is the corporate media to demonize Ahmadinejad, it reprints distortions of his comments (Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be “wiped off the map,” as widely reported), which are then used to further rationalize “all Muslims are terrorists” comments.

 

As FAIR noted late last month, the starting point of all discussion in the corporate media about events in the Middle East begins with the assumption Arabs and Muslims are terrorists. For instance, in regard to the Palestinians:

 

If anything, what “hardly ever varies” is mainstream media’s adherence to an attack-retaliation formula that overwhelmingly places the blame on the Palestinian side, though in the ongoing cycle of attacks both sides usually describe their actions as retaliatory…. From the start of the Intifada in September 2000 through March 17, 2002, the three major networks’ nightly news shows used some variation of the word “retaliation” (”retaliated,” “will retaliate,” etc.) 150 times to describe attacks in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. About 79 percent of those references were to Israeli “retaliation” against Palestinians. Only 9 percent referred to Palestinian “retaliation” against Israelis. (Approximately 12 percent were ambiguous or referred to both sides simultaneously.)

 

A 2002 Glasgow University Media Group report revealed “that television news on the Israel/Palestinian conflict [in Britain] confuses viewers and substantially features Israeli government views…. There is a preponderance of official ‘Israeli perspectives’, particularly on BBC 1, where Israelis were interviewed or reported over twice as much as Palestinians. On top of this, US politicians who support Israel were very strongly featured…. TV news says almost nothing about the history or origins of the conflict.” In America, this bias even more pronounced.

 

Few television news viewers (or zombies) realize Israel invaded Lebanon in 1978 and 1982, or that Israel occupied southern Lebanon for more than twenty years and this brutal occupation (as documented by human rights organizations) resulted in the formation of Hezbollah.

 

Few understand Israel has stolen Arab land, including the Golan Heights and Shebaa Farms, and common Israeli border provocations result in Hezbollah attacking Israel.

 

Few understand the magnitude of Israel’s abduction of Lebanese, accused of resisting Israel’s illegal occupation, or the fact many of them were tortured in the Khiam torture dungeon. “Lebanese detainees held without trial or after expiry of their sentences in Israeli prisons and in Khiam are Israel’s forgotten hostages,” notes Amnesty International. “Amnesty International knows of 21 Lebanese nationals who have been captured in Lebanon and transferred to Israeli prisons either without ever having been sentenced or held beyond the expiry of their sentences. These are just some of the detainees whom Amnesty International believes Israel to be holding as hostages. Most of them were captured by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) or by one of the pro-Israeli Christian militias in Lebanon, the Lebanese Forces or the SLA. Many of them were held in detention centers in Lebanon under Lebanese Forces’ or SLA control before being transferred, usually secretly, to Israel.” No mention of this in the corporate media. Instead, we are told, without additional comment, all Muslims are terrorists.

 

No mention in the corporate media of Israel’s continual and repeated violations of Lebanese airspace. “Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Personal Representative for Southern Lebanon today called on Israel to cease its air violations over Lebanese territory,” the UN News Center reported on November 4, 2004. “Staffan de Mistura issued his statement in Beirut in response to eight flights involving 11 aircraft and three drones across the Blue Line, as the line of withdrawal is known.” Israel has violated Lebanese sovereignty dozens of time, buzzing Beirut, Tripoli, Tyre, and other cities, often using sonic booms to intimidate the population. Earlier this year Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN envoy to Middle East, complained of “constant Israel violations against Lebanon,” but such stories seem to be of interest only to the Arab media.

 

No mention of Israel’s violence around the illegally occupied Shebaa Farms. In response to Hezbollah attacking occupation forces at Shebaa Farms, Israel attacks civilians as a matter of course. “News reports in Beirut said that the Israeli forces started artillery bombardment of Kafer Shouba village and the neighboring villages after Hizbullah fighters fired one missile at a site for the Israeli occupation army in Shebaa farms,” the Arabic News reported in February. “The Israeli bombardment resulted in injuring one Lebanese woman and damages to several houses in al-Habareyah and al-Kheyam and in al-Habareyah elementary school. One house in Kafer Shouba was directly hit.” In November, 2005, “police explained that one Israeli military tank and artilleries bombarded for 45 minutes several Lebanese villages…. [and Hezbollah] retaliated the Israeli bombardment and fired mortars shelling at three Israeli positions in Shabaa Farms.” In October of the same year, the IOF attacked Burket al-Nakkar and Jabal Saddaneh with attack helicopters. Of course, all of this occurred on Lebanese soil, and yet Lebanon did not invade Israel or incinerate school kids on Israeli roads.

 

Instead, Fox News welcomes comments that all Muslims are terrorists and this feeds into the perception that killing innocent Lebanese civilians is justified because they allowed Hezbollah to capture Israeli prisoners of war. If we are to use such a yardstick, then Hezbollah attacks on Israel are completely justified, as Israel has taken Lebanese prisoners by the dozens, not because they have done anything but rather because they are considered “bargaining chips.”

thats just fucked.... I officially ban FOX news...

Now I am one for fair speech for both sides...

especially with one voice not being heard over another...

however I have seen Fahrenheit 911, which despite me not liking mr Bush very much, was a little baist against him in the conspiracies it drawn up. Some of your posts seem very similar to this type rhetoric

 

I would be careful where you get your news stories from before posting them in a public forum, even though most of the respective audience on here will agree with you that mis guide them... that will make you just as bad as Mr murdoch and the comedy he puts out on fox news... on a daily basis...

 

KEEP IT REAL..

oh god, you can as well say that all jews are bloodthursty monsters ...

Now I am one for fair speech for both sides...

especially with one voice not being heard over another...

however I have seen Fahrenheit 911, which despite me not liking mr Bush very much, was a little baist against him in the conspiracies it drawn up. Some of your posts seem very similar to this type rhetoric

 

I would be careful where you get your news stories from before posting them in a public forum, even though most of the respective audience on here will agree with you that mis guide them... that will make you just as bad as Mr murdoch and the comedy he puts out on fox news... on a daily basis...

 

KEEP IT REAL..

 

Fahrenheit 911 white-washes the whole issue....it leaves out SO much and makes light of only a few smoking-guns, most of them far less important than others.

 

And, no, I shouldn't have to be careful.....why? The point is that he said these comments and nobody questions Israeli diplomat Dan Gillerman's comments......I'm sure as a host of a TV you would be shocked and should be slightly angry when hearing this......but not on corporate Fox News.

Now I am one for fair speech for both sides...

especially with one voice not being heard over another...

however I have seen Fahrenheit 911, which despite me not liking mr Bush very much, was a little baist against him in the conspiracies it drawn up. Some of your posts seem very similar to this type rhetoric

 

I would be careful where you get your news stories from before posting them in a public forum, even though most of the respective audience on here will agree with you that mis guide them... that will make you just as bad as Mr murdoch and the comedy he puts out on fox news... on a daily basis...

 

KEEP IT REAL..

 

I highly disagree.. the stuff Gazebo (Gareth) posts doesn't force feed anyone like the commentary on F9/11... I think he posts things that allow other to think for themselves.. not what others want you to believe. I saw the movie.. and as blatant some of those lies were.. for the most part... it made you think about certain facts that were presented.....

I highly disagree.. the stuff Gazebo (Gareth) posts doesn't force feed anyone like the commentary on F9/11... I think he posts things that allow other to think for themselves.. not what others want you to believe. I saw the movie.. and as blatant some of those lies were.. for the most part... it made you think about certain facts that were presented.....

 

True, however I belive it was not comentated in such a way Mr Kerry would be the president now.. and the world may be a safer place... however it could have been to late anyway by now we have gone to far down this path.. as the effects of the bush adminstration since that very dark day are now irriversable

oh god' date=' you can as well say that all jews are bloodthursty monsters ...[/quote']

 

whats that supposed to mean?

 

gareth i know that its very unfortunate that civilians are caught in the crossfire and it shouldn't happen, but hizbollah take advantage of this and actually fire many of their rockets from civilian areas. i just heard this today from a israeli mentor at my school. he just finished army service last year and was a commander in the special forces commandos so i'd thought i'd clarify that point about civilians in crossfire.

 

in other news it has been reported that israeli ground forces have gone into southern lebanon. this is bad. it will cause casulaties on both sides. hopefully this is where the escalation stops.

True' date=' however I belive it was not comentated in such a way Mr Kerry would be the president now.. and the world may be a safer place... however it could have been to late anyway by now we have gone to far down this path.. as the effects of the bush adminstration since that very dark day are now irriversable[/quote']

 

 

I'd be th first to say that Bush is a crap president.. but I'll be honest. I'm kinda happy Kerry lost (even though I voted for him) because I'm not sure things would have turned out much different if he were i charge. He wasn't/isn't a man of authority. He's a goof. Bring back Gore I say!!

whats that supposed to mean?

 

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its just a reaction on the title, it has nothing to do with the posts .. if they say all arabs are terorrists you can as well say all jews are bloodthursty monsters ..

its just a reaction on the title' date=' it has nothing to do with the posts .. if they say all arabs are terorrists you can as well say all jews are bloodthursty monsters ..[/quote']

 

that just inflames the situation. also why do people mistake when the guy said all terrorists have been muslim to all muslims are terrorists?

its just a reaction on the title' date=' it has nothing to do with the posts .. if they say all arabs are terorrists you can as well say all jews are bloodthursty monsters ..[/quote']

 

why do u know any bloodthirsty jews?

 

because i do know arabs that are terrorists (-_-)

why do u know any bloodthirsty jews?

 

because i do know arabs that are terrorists (-_-)

 

 

i don't say that the jews are bloodthirsty what i want to say is that saying 'all arabs are terrorists is just as stupid as saying that all jews are bloodthirsty

thats just fucked.... I officially ban FOX news...

 

You mean you hadn't already? I was just watching it yesterday and Bill O'Reilly comes into his No Spin Zone proclaiming all Jews are liberal. I mean seriously, he and the whole network are oblivious of their own hypocrisy.

 

This...this is outrageous. I guess ignorance really is bliss. :angry:

You mean you hadn't already? I was just watching it yesterday and Bill O'Reilly comes into his No Spin Zone proclaiming all Jews are liberal. I mean seriously, he and the whole network are oblivious of their own hypocrisy.

 

This...this is outrageous. I guess ignorance really is bliss. :angry:

 

 

I occassionally watch the FOX Report with Shepard Smith.. I like him. But I am more of a CNN gal myself.. lol at least they report bad stuff on this administration and don't pretend its all hunkydory..... lol