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I have not doubt ot Memritv's aim and bias. I haven't seen them all, but I have no doubt they look only certain types of messages. Neverthless the only one who is to blame is the
SPEAKER!
Instead of taking the written words of some bloggers who can make up anything, write opinions and state them as facts (which you have done from many Holocaust denial sites in the past), memritv just replays and translates speeches, programs and even cartoons. These come right from the lion's mouth. There is no denying what the message is.
What you are trying to do is present a red herring, instead of acknowledging what is being preached and broadcasted across the islamic world, you choose to rather demonize the Jews then anything else.
right there from your own biased article:
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Nobody, so far as I know, disputes the general accuracy of Memri's translations
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If you read the article this is a blogger who makes no references to his claims and provides no proof. However, you are to believe his obviously anti-Israel rambles and believe everything he says as the world of god. It's funny you choose to believe that blogger with provides no evidences or references instead of the words coming right from the mouth of the prepetrators.
I mean author even tries to defend or at least apologize for the blood libel claim of a Saudi Arabia "intellect."
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Earlier this year, Memri scored two significant propaganda successes against Saudi Arabia. The first was its translation of an article from al-Riyadh newspaper in which a columnist wrote that Jews use the blood of Christian or Muslim children in pastries for the Purim religious festival.
The writer, a university teacher, was apparently relying on an anti-semitic myth that dates back to the middle ages. What this demonstrated, more than anything, was the ignorance of many Arabs - even those highly educated - about Judaism and Israel, and their readiness to believe such ridiculous stories.
But Memri claimed al-Riyadh was a Saudi "government newspaper" - in fact it's privately owned - implying that the article had some form of official approval.
Al-Riyadh's editor said he had not seen the article before publication because he had been abroad. He apologised without hesitation and sacked his columnist, but by then the damage had been done.
Memri's next success came a month later when Saudi Arabia's ambassador to London wrote a poem entitled The Martyrs - about a young woman suicide bomber - which was published in al-Hayat newspaper.
Memri sent out translated extracts from the poem, which it described as "praising suicide bombers". Whether that was the poem's real message is a matter of interpretation. It could, perhaps more plausibly, be read as condemning the political ineffectiveness of Arab leaders, but Memri's interpretation was reported, almost without question, by the western media.
These incidents involving Saudi Arabia should not be viewed in isolation. They are part of building a case against the kingdom and persuading the United States to treat it as an enemy, rather than an ally.
It's a campaign that the Israeli government and American neo-conservatives have been pushing since early this year - one aspect of which was the bizarre anti-Saudi briefing at the Pentagon, hosted last month by Richard Perle.
To anyone who reads Arabic newspapers regularly, it should be obvious that the items highlighted by Memri are those that suit its agenda and are not representative of the newspapers' content as a whole.
The danger is that many of the senators, congressmen and "opinion formers" who don't read Arabic but receive Memri's emails may get the idea that these extreme examples are not only truly representative but also reflect the policies of Arab governments.
Memri's Col Carmon seems eager to encourage them in that belief. In Washington last April, in testimony to the House committee on international relations, he portrayed the Arab media as part of a wide-scale system of government-sponsored indoctrination
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Man is this author ignorant or what. At the very least he represents the growing rabidly anti-semitic left wing of Europe!
