Bleeding Hearts

A remarkable smackdown of the media - aimed particularly at the British media in this case - appears in Ha'aretz. Written by Julie Burchill, it shows just how badly Israel has been losing the war of ideas, mostly because of the complicity of the media.

Later that night Chas and I were watching a TV news report of the beginnings of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. To say we were amazed when a news presenter solemnly intoned that there had been "two militants wounded" with all the grieving gravitas of Richard Dimbleby reporting on the state funeral of the late Winston Churchill is to employ English understatement to an almost surreal degree. But it's been that way ever since - and more than one night has seen me screaming at the TV/my husband "You don't understand! None of you English bastards understands!" before running into the bedroom, slamming the door and collapsing in a tearful heap with only Bibi to comfort me.

One of the most grotesque examples of the almost brainwashed level of bias can be seen on the official BBC Religions Web site, where that "peace be upon him" eyewash is going on like crazy, while other religions are coolly commented on in a strictly "objective" way.

This is a piece that really needs to be read in it's entirety to get the full impact. Excerpting it does not do it justice. To say that it exposes the blatant, almost suicidal complicity of the media in disseminating Islamist propaganda is an understatement. Read it all.

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