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COMPLAIN TO METRO!!! Friday, June 27, 2003 (640 reads)
The June 27 edition of the Metro newspaper contains two fundamentally and offensively inaccurate letters on Israel/Palestine which are easy to counter.
The letters are reproduced in full, followed by Arab Media Watch's points for rebuttal:
C Leadbeater does not appear to understand the word "fact". The Palestinian Charter still calls for the destruction of Israel. Hamas and other Palestinians organisations certainly do not recognise Israel''s right to exist. Most of the Palestinian schoolbooks do not show Israel. Israel really wants peace but this can only come about when both sides show they are serious about it. M Ordman, middlesex
All you need is an internet connection to discover how that the PLO charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Article 9 reads: "Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine." And articles 19 to 20 refute the right of Israel to exist: "The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal?. The Balfour declaration? null and void." LB, London N12
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COMPLAIN TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES!!! Tuesday, June 24, 2003 (532 reads)
Last week, the FT published 2 commentaries in as many days (1 from employee Martin Wolf, the other from Israeli professor Shlomo Avineri) calling for the Palestinian right of return to be dropped.
Now, on June 24, it has published a commentary from an Israeli praising the wall that is being built in the illegally occupied West Bank and devastating the Palestinian population and economy.
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COMPLAIN TO THE BBC!!! Friday, June 20, 2003 (576 reads)
The BBC has always had a poor record of describing Israeli settlements in the occupied territories as illegal. However, on June 20 its online service went too far by describing the larger settlements as "legal." This is a grave and inexcusable error for such a prestigious and supposedly objective news organisation, and we should make sure that it gets its facts right in future.
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COMPLAIN TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES!!! Wednesday, June 18, 2003 (515 reads)
There is a horrendous commentary in the June 18 edition of the FT by Martin Wolf, entitled "There can be no right of return."
This is yet another attempt in the British press to denigrate and deny the Palestinians' legal and inalienable right to return to their homes. The commentary is also peppered with other historical inaccuracies.
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Stop all attacks on Palestine medical relief staff and services Saturday, June 14, 2003 (495 reads)
Stop all attacks on Palestine medical relief staff and services
An alert from Palestine Medical Relief.
June 14, 2003
Following on from yesterdays attack on the village of Deir Ghassaneh, where the Israeli occupying army surrounded and entered the village, declared a curfew, buried alive villagers, and shot and arrested other villagers, we now have an update to the attacks.
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THANK THE GUARDIAN!!! Thursday, June 12, 2003 (599 reads)
Please take a minute to thank the Guardian for an excellent commentary and article in its June 12 edition.
The commentary is about the dire humanitarian situation in the occupied territories and the need to boycott Israeli products, written by a British MP who is Jewish.
The article is about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon having Jewish blood on his hands for the attempted assassination of Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi.
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COMPLAIN TO THE TELEGRAPH!!! Thursday, June 05, 2003 (524 reads)
An awful leader in the June 5 edition of the Daily Telegraph entitled "The road map unfolds," which sees the peace process essentially from the point of view of Israel's security, and echoes the opinion of the Times that there be no right of return for Palestinian refugees to their homes.
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COMPLAIN TO THE TIMES!!! Wednesday, June 04, 2003 (519 reads)
The June 4 edition of the Times contains a terrible leader entitled "A start along the peace road." It calls Israel's actions "retaliatory", criticises the Palestinian leadership for not doing enough to stop "terror", and says Arab governments "must renew their security guarantees to Israel".
But its biggest offense concerns Palestinian refugees' right to return to their homes. It puts the term in quote marks as if to cast doubt on its legitimacy, it says the Palestinians simply "left" in 1948, and it describes their right to return as "unrealistic" because it means "the demographic dismantling of the Jewish state."
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Action Alerts are issued no more than twice a week, in response to particularly good or bad reporting of Arab issues. They are designed to hone, galvanise and focus the lobbying capability of members and the public, and thus our effectiveness, where and when it is most needed. They are also suited to those who do not have time to engage the media everyday.
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