Fair – Reporting

Watch the foundation laying for the World’s Largest Underground Hospital on  You Tube

The foundations were laid this week for the world’s largest underground hospital. The emergency facility at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa is designed to withstand conventional, chemical, and biological attacks.
    The project, slated for completion in 2012, will serve as a three-floor parking lot – that in times of emergency can be transformed at short notice into a 2,000-bed hospital.
    Designed to be self-sufficient, the hospital will be able to generate its own power and can store enough oxygen, drinking water and medical supplies for up to three days.

Shocking to read that the BBC is taking advertising from an “Intifada” supporting Islamic bank. The excellent Undhimmi has the sordid details here (link) but this sums it up;

Among many other activities, the bank controls two funds set up at an Arab summit in Cairo, in October 2000 – the Al-Quds Fund and the Al-Aqsa Fund. Between them worth hundreds of millions of dollars, these funds openly finance the ‘Palestinian Intifada’. It is also linked with the channeling of UN funds to Hamas.

Stated aims of the fund include the provision of assistance to the widows and families left behind by ‘martyrs’; and the furtherance of the ‘resistance’ against Israel.So there you have it. The BBC, a British Government-funded quasi-NGO, is taking advertising money from a bank which pays the families of homicide bombers and terrorists. Surprised?  

WHY is the BBC taking advertising from such a terror-supporting organisation on one of it’s news portals outside the UK? Shouldn’t a major news organisation pick this up and ask some pointed question of the BBC? When people question BBC impartiality this only confirms their worst suspicions.

“Israel’s peace partner reaffirmed on Sunday that Palestinians convicted of selling land to Jews would face the death penalty for “high treason.”

PA officials claim the death penalty deters Arabs from selling land to Jews living in Judea and Samaria, which they envision free of Jewish residents in a future Palestinian state.

But one Palestinian affairs expert said while such laws may deter the sale of land, they give credence to the perception of Palestinian terrorism.

Dr. Hillel Frisch of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University said imposing the death penalty for the sale of land is “pretty stringent in the modern conception of human rights.”

“It certainly reflects that a Palestinian democracy has already been placed in the coffin a long time ago,” Dr. Frisch told CBN News. “The idea even of a semi-liberal state is long past us,” he said.

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Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant?  (link)  The Christian Science Monitor

The cyber worm, called Stuxnet, has been the object of intense study since its detection in June. As more has become known about it, alarm about its capabilities and purpose have grown. Some top cyber security experts now say Stuxnet’s arrival heralds something blindingly new: a cyber weapon created to cross from the digital realm to the physical world – to destroy something.

The Stuxnet malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it’s a search-and-destroy weapon meant to hit a single target. One expert suggests it may be after Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant.

In blatant display of bias over UN report  slating Israel  by Robin Shepherd            

In one of the most disgraceful displays of wilful bias that you will ever have the misfortune to witness, the BBC today (link) covers a UN Human Rights Council report which castigates Israel over the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident in the Mediterranean Sea earlier this year.

The incident left nine pro-terror activists dead after they attacked Israeli soldiers in a bid for martyrdom. Gleefully, the BBC quotes the report as accusing Israel in the following terms:…..

There is just no way out of this for the BBC. This isn’t journalism, it’s political propaganda. And since that violates the BBC’s own charter, the journalists and editors should be held to account.

How The Other Side Sees It  From the “Hudson New York”

by Mark Silverberg    @ http://tinyurl.com/2v5bdhz

As Harold Rhode, recently of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, wrote for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, it is crucial to understand the mindset of our enemies. Dealing specifically with Iran, but implying that the Arab dictators and despots of the Middle East move to the same beat, Rhode concludes that the paradigms that govern U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East today are totally at odds with the paradigms that actually govern the actions of our enemies. As Rhode notes: Compromise, as we understand the concept, is seen by the other side “as a sign of submission and weakness” that brings shame and dishonor on those – and on the families of those – who concede. Our efforts at compromise, contrition, accommodation and appeasement are perceived as symbolic of our weakness; and our attempts to find common cause with our enemies merely reinforce their belief that we are “paper tigers,” to use bin Laden’s term, and easy prey. “It is for this reason that good-will and confidence-building measures should be avoided at all costs,” he says, as our Western cultural biases make it easy to misunderstand the true intentions of our enemies.

As some of you will already know I shall be out of circulation for a while and will therefore not be updating the new fair-reporting blog until my return. 

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The Gaza Strip (link):    by Khaled Abu Toameh   Hudson New York

The Palestinian and Israeli negotiators and their US sponsors are continuing to ignore the facts on the ground — namely that a radical, Iranian-funded Islamist state already exists, and it is in the Gaza Strip.

It would have been more useful for the peace process had Washington demanded that Abbas find a solution to the split between the West Bank and Gaza Strip before dragging him to the negotiating table.

Gaza Water Park (link) and luxury restaurants Arab Palestinians enjoy…Video

Palestinian Media Watch (link)

The PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported on Sept. 9: “The PLO’s representative in Lebanon, Ambassador Abdullah Abdullah, emphasized yesterday that the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, which have started in Washington, are not a goal, but rather another stage in the Palestinian struggle….He believes that Israel will not be dealt a knock-out defeat, but rather an accumulation of Palestinian achievements and struggles, as happened in South Africa, to isolate Israel, to tighten the noose on it, to threaten its legitimacy, and to present it as a rebellious, racist state.”