CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US
Various | 14.11.2006 05:34 | Palestine | Repression | World
Once again, the media's bias towards the Zionist Extremists currently controlling Israel is exposed for all to see.
CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US
CNN editors replaced all Palestinian quotations with quotes from the US and Israel in its story 'U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel's Gaza strikes'. The new, more prominent article begins with the exact same wording as the original, but all Palestinian remarks are gone.
The two versions have identical first and second paragraphs:
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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to immediately cease military operations in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."
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The original wire followed with:
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The U.S. veto angered Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad, who called the veto "shameful" and "not the first time" the United States has used a veto "just to protect Israel."
The veto, Hamad said, is to "give Israel covering in order to continue its massacres and killings among our people. It is giving legitimacy to Israel to continue the aggression against our people."
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But CNN editors pulled these two paragraphs, replacing them with a description of the resolution and vote tally, followed by a quotation from the Israeli military. It ended with five paragraphs quoting US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton.
CNN neglected well-known journalistic standards when it removed Palestinian statements from its original report. According to Wikipedia.org's Journalism entry, journalists must use "multiple original sources of information, especially if the subject of the report is controversial" and must "report every side of a story possible".
CNN took an unethical step backwards when it morphed the responsible 4:37AM wire into a biased Sunday afternoon article.
Full text of the original wire:
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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to immediately cease military operations in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."
The U.S. veto angered Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad, who called the veto "shameful" and "not the first time" the United States has used a veto "just to protect Israel."
The veto, Hamad said, is to "give Israel covering in order to continue its massacres and killings among our people. It is giving legitimacy to Israel to continue the aggression against our people."
The resolution, proposed by the Qatar delegation, particularly condemned Israel for Wednesday's shelling in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun that killed 18 people, mostly women and children.
The proposal also condemns Palestinians who fire missiles from Gaza into Israel. (Posted 4:37 a.m.)
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Full text of the edited article:
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POSTED: 2:21 p.m. EST, November 11, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to cease military operations immediately in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."
Qatar proposed the motion, which focused on Wednesday's shelling in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun that killed 18 people, mostly women and children. (Watch mourners carry bodies of victims through the streets -- 1:49)
The blocked resolution also condemned Palestinians who fire missiles from Gaza into Israel.
Israel's military said it has been targeting militants in Beit Hanoun who have been firing Qassam rockets into Israel, and blamed a "technical failure" for the misfire that killed the 18 civilians.
The United States cast the only vote against. Four council members abstained and 10 voted for the resolution.
Before the vote, Bolton said the United States joined the other countries in "deeply regretting" the injuries and loss of life in Wednesday's shelling, but said Israel has promised a full investigation.
Bolton said the resolution's text was "unbalanced."
"We are disturbed at the language of the resolution that is in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated," Bolton said. "Such language does not further the cause of peace and its unacceptability to the United States in previous resolutions is well known."
Bolton said the text was wrong in equating what he called Israel's legal defense operations in Gaza with Palestinian acts of terrorism against civilians in Israel.
"We are disturbed that there is not a single reference to terrorism in the proposed resolution, nor any condemnation of the Hamas leadership's statement that Palestinians should resume terror attacks on a broad scale, or calls by the military wing of Hamas to Muslims worldwide to strike American targets and interests," he said.
http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=24
US vetoes UN resolution condemning Israel on Gaza
11 Nov 2006 18:52:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution urging an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and condemning an Israeli attack there that killed 18 Palestinian civilians.
Nine of the council's 15 members voted for the measure, while four abstained: Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia.
But the "no" vote cast by U.S. Ambassador John Bolton -- his second since he arrived at U.N. headquarters in August 2005 -- was enough to kill the resolution.
Bolton's first veto, on July 13, 2006, killed a resolution reacting to an earlier Israeli incursion in Gaza.
The United States has cast 82 vetoes in the United Nations' 61 years, and nine of the last 10 council vetoes, seven of which dealt with the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The measure defeated on Saturday was backed by Arab, Islamic and nonaligned nations and formally proposed by Qatar.
It would have called on the Palestinian Authority to "take immediate and sustained action to bring an end to violence, including the firing of rockets on Israeli territory."
It would have urged the international community to take steps to stabilize the situation, revive the Middle East peace process and consider "the possible establishment of an international mechanism" for the protection of civilians.
It also would have condemned Israeli military operations in Gaza and called on the Jewish state to withdraw all troops from Gaza and end its operations in all Palestinian lands.
ACCIDENTAL 'TECHNICAL FAILURE'
Seven children and four women were among the dead in Wednesday's shelling of Beit Hanoun, for which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has apologized, calling it an accidental "technical failure" by the Israeli military.
But Palestinian leaders have called it a massacre.
Bolton said Washington regretted the loss of life but was "disturbed at language in the resolution that is in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated."
He said the suggestion of a mechanism to protect civilians would raise false hopes, and he was disturbed the measure made no mention of the word "terrorism" or the Palestinians' elected Hamas government, which refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist or renounce violence.
Palestinian U.N. Observer Riyad Mansour said Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Sunday would decide on the next steps following the measure's defeat. One option was to bring the measure to a vote in the 192-nation General Assembly, where Washington did not have veto power.
The U.S. veto sent the wrong message to both Israeli and Palestinian militants, Mansour told reporters. "Will that help extremist elements to take issues into their own hands on both sides? You bet!"
Governments that abstained said they were unable to support the text because it was unbalanced.
"It is absolutely right that the Security Council should meet on this important issue," said British Deputy Ambassador Karen Pierce. But "any statement from this council must be balanced and must serve the interests of both parties, and that interest is peace."
Congo Republic Ambassador Basile Ikouebe, who voted for the measure, expressed "deep disappointment" that the veto had prevented council members from being "able to express ourselves clearly on such a serious situation."
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11409814.htm
AIPAC Eats New Congress Critters for Lunch
Friday November 10th 2006, 8:34 pm
Lest we forget who runs Congress, consider the following “briefing” posted on the AIPAC website yesterday:
AIPAC Builds Ties With New Lawmakers
AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy. A non-partisan organization, AIPAC has for decades worked with Republican and Democratic members of Congress to strengthen the ties between the United States and Israel.
kurtnimmo.com/?p=649
Should American politicians be "building relationships" with an organization which is currently under investigation by the FBI, for espionage?
Israeli Brutality In Gaza Continues, UN Calls For Peace
Israel is sending a clear message to the world, that it cannot be reasoned with or made to rethink its policies of death & destruction, in its perpetual war to wipe Palestine off the map.
hamilton.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1570/index.php
True Lies About U.S. Aid to" Israeli " War Machinery
Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers
www.uruknet.de/?p=m28148&hd=0&size=1&l=t
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel
(1972-2006)
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
CNN editors replaced all Palestinian quotations with quotes from the US and Israel in its story 'U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel's Gaza strikes'. The new, more prominent article begins with the exact same wording as the original, but all Palestinian remarks are gone.
The two versions have identical first and second paragraphs:
----------
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to immediately cease military operations in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."
----------
The original wire followed with:
----------
The U.S. veto angered Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad, who called the veto "shameful" and "not the first time" the United States has used a veto "just to protect Israel."
The veto, Hamad said, is to "give Israel covering in order to continue its massacres and killings among our people. It is giving legitimacy to Israel to continue the aggression against our people."
----------
But CNN editors pulled these two paragraphs, replacing them with a description of the resolution and vote tally, followed by a quotation from the Israeli military. It ended with five paragraphs quoting US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton.
CNN neglected well-known journalistic standards when it removed Palestinian statements from its original report. According to Wikipedia.org's Journalism entry, journalists must use "multiple original sources of information, especially if the subject of the report is controversial" and must "report every side of a story possible".
CNN took an unethical step backwards when it morphed the responsible 4:37AM wire into a biased Sunday afternoon article.
Full text of the original wire:
----------
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to immediately cease military operations in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."
The U.S. veto angered Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad, who called the veto "shameful" and "not the first time" the United States has used a veto "just to protect Israel."
The veto, Hamad said, is to "give Israel covering in order to continue its massacres and killings among our people. It is giving legitimacy to Israel to continue the aggression against our people."
The resolution, proposed by the Qatar delegation, particularly condemned Israel for Wednesday's shelling in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun that killed 18 people, mostly women and children.
The proposal also condemns Palestinians who fire missiles from Gaza into Israel. (Posted 4:37 a.m.)
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Full text of the edited article:
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POSTED: 2:21 p.m. EST, November 11, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said the resolution, which also called for Israel to cease military operations immediately in the Palestinian territory, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."
Qatar proposed the motion, which focused on Wednesday's shelling in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun that killed 18 people, mostly women and children. (Watch mourners carry bodies of victims through the streets -- 1:49)
The blocked resolution also condemned Palestinians who fire missiles from Gaza into Israel.
Israel's military said it has been targeting militants in Beit Hanoun who have been firing Qassam rockets into Israel, and blamed a "technical failure" for the misfire that killed the 18 civilians.
The United States cast the only vote against. Four council members abstained and 10 voted for the resolution.
Before the vote, Bolton said the United States joined the other countries in "deeply regretting" the injuries and loss of life in Wednesday's shelling, but said Israel has promised a full investigation.
Bolton said the resolution's text was "unbalanced."
"We are disturbed at the language of the resolution that is in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated," Bolton said. "Such language does not further the cause of peace and its unacceptability to the United States in previous resolutions is well known."
Bolton said the text was wrong in equating what he called Israel's legal defense operations in Gaza with Palestinian acts of terrorism against civilians in Israel.
"We are disturbed that there is not a single reference to terrorism in the proposed resolution, nor any condemnation of the Hamas leadership's statement that Palestinians should resume terror attacks on a broad scale, or calls by the military wing of Hamas to Muslims worldwide to strike American targets and interests," he said.
http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=24 US vetoes UN resolution condemning Israel on Gaza
11 Nov 2006 18:52:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution urging an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and condemning an Israeli attack there that killed 18 Palestinian civilians.
Nine of the council's 15 members voted for the measure, while four abstained: Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia.
But the "no" vote cast by U.S. Ambassador John Bolton -- his second since he arrived at U.N. headquarters in August 2005 -- was enough to kill the resolution.
Bolton's first veto, on July 13, 2006, killed a resolution reacting to an earlier Israeli incursion in Gaza.
The United States has cast 82 vetoes in the United Nations' 61 years, and nine of the last 10 council vetoes, seven of which dealt with the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The measure defeated on Saturday was backed by Arab, Islamic and nonaligned nations and formally proposed by Qatar.
It would have called on the Palestinian Authority to "take immediate and sustained action to bring an end to violence, including the firing of rockets on Israeli territory."
It would have urged the international community to take steps to stabilize the situation, revive the Middle East peace process and consider "the possible establishment of an international mechanism" for the protection of civilians.
It also would have condemned Israeli military operations in Gaza and called on the Jewish state to withdraw all troops from Gaza and end its operations in all Palestinian lands.
ACCIDENTAL 'TECHNICAL FAILURE'
Seven children and four women were among the dead in Wednesday's shelling of Beit Hanoun, for which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has apologized, calling it an accidental "technical failure" by the Israeli military.
But Palestinian leaders have called it a massacre.
Bolton said Washington regretted the loss of life but was "disturbed at language in the resolution that is in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated."
He said the suggestion of a mechanism to protect civilians would raise false hopes, and he was disturbed the measure made no mention of the word "terrorism" or the Palestinians' elected Hamas government, which refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist or renounce violence.
Palestinian U.N. Observer Riyad Mansour said Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Sunday would decide on the next steps following the measure's defeat. One option was to bring the measure to a vote in the 192-nation General Assembly, where Washington did not have veto power.
The U.S. veto sent the wrong message to both Israeli and Palestinian militants, Mansour told reporters. "Will that help extremist elements to take issues into their own hands on both sides? You bet!"
Governments that abstained said they were unable to support the text because it was unbalanced.
"It is absolutely right that the Security Council should meet on this important issue," said British Deputy Ambassador Karen Pierce. But "any statement from this council must be balanced and must serve the interests of both parties, and that interest is peace."
Congo Republic Ambassador Basile Ikouebe, who voted for the measure, expressed "deep disappointment" that the veto had prevented council members from being "able to express ourselves clearly on such a serious situation."
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11409814.htm
AIPAC Eats New Congress Critters for Lunch
Friday November 10th 2006, 8:34 pm
Lest we forget who runs Congress, consider the following “briefing” posted on the AIPAC website yesterday:
AIPAC Builds Ties With New Lawmakers
AIPAC reached nearly every lawmaker elected in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections as part of its effort to educate political candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. During the campaign that ended Tuesday, nearly every viable candidate met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. Middle East policy. A non-partisan organization, AIPAC has for decades worked with Republican and Democratic members of Congress to strengthen the ties between the United States and Israel.
kurtnimmo.com/?p=649
Should American politicians be "building relationships" with an organization which is currently under investigation by the FBI, for espionage?
Israeli Brutality In Gaza Continues, UN Calls For Peace
Israel is sending a clear message to the world, that it cannot be reasoned with or made to rethink its policies of death & destruction, in its perpetual war to wipe Palestine off the map.
hamilton.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1570/index.php
True Lies About U.S. Aid to" Israeli " War Machinery
Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers
www.uruknet.de/?p=m28148&hd=0&size=1&l=t
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel
(1972-2006)
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
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