Video: CBS 60 Minutes - Israeli settlers trying to prevent peace deal - Zionist Jews are a menace to humanity
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This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a powerful and thoughtful report on the
danger that Israeli settlements pose to the chances for Israeli-Palestinian
peace. If you haven't watched the segment, it is must-see journalism. Watch
it here.
All week long, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon has been under attack for supposed
"anti-Israel bias." CAMERA (the Orwellian-named Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America) alerted their activist network - flooding
the 60 Minutes' offices and their advertisers with angry phone calls
charging media bias. [1] Jewish community leader Abe Foxman fired off a
letter calling the piece a "hatchet job on Israel." [2]
Journalists - as well as rabbis, professors and elected officials - know
that if they raise questions about what Israel does - they'll often get
attacked as anti-Israel. It's one way the forces of the status quo constrain
debate and discussion on what's really best for Israel and the United
States.
It's time for a reporter like Bob Simon to know that those of us with
balanced views value balanced reporting - and we know how to write letters
too! If he's getting an earful from CAMERA and others, then the pro-Israel,
pro-peace movement should be showing him support.
Click here to view the segment and send Bob Simon a note of support for his
accurate and thoughtful report on Israeli settlements and the occupation.
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We hear plenty from American media about the threats that Israel faces from
terrorism, rockets, and a nuclear Iran.
While those threats are real and should be covered, Americans also need to
hear about another threat that is just as real: that time is running out for
a two-state solution with the Palestinians in part due to Israeli
settlements and the occupation of the West Bank. Without a two-state
solution soon through assertive American diplomacy, Israel's future as a
Jewish, democratic homeland is at risk.
During Sunday's 60 Minutes segment, anchor Bob Simon interviewed
pro-settlement activist Daniella Weiss who readily admitted that she thinks
"settlements prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in the land of
Israel. This is the goal. And this is the reality."
Simon also restated what Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been saying
for years [3] about what would happen if the two-state solution peace
process falls apart.
"Demographers predict that within ten years Arabs will outnumber Jews in
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Without a separate Palestinian state the
Israelis would have three options, none of them good. They could try ethnic
cleansing, drive the Palestinians out of the West Bank, or they could give
the Palestinians the vote. That would be the democratic option but it would
mean the end of the Jewish state. Or they could try apartheid - have the
minority Israelis rule the majority Palestinians, but apartheid regimes
don't have a very long life."
Simon also interviewed Israeli Foreign Minister and Israel's chief
negotiator with the Palestinians Tzipi Livni who said that evacuating the
settlers in the West Bank is "not going to be easy. But this is the only
solution."
But groups like CAMERA are opposed to mainstream media reporting that
Israeli extremists, in addition to Palestinian extremists, undermine efforts
to achieve a two-state solution. CAMERA resorts to claims of anti-Israel
bias - when the reality is that Israeli extremists on the West Bank make
real peace and security for Israel and the Palestinians more difficult to
achieve.
We can't let fringe groups like CAMERA define what it means to be pro-Israel
through intimidation and fear tactics.
Bob Simon should receive support from the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement for
his accurate and thoughtful assessment of the threat that Israeli
settlements pose to the two-state solution peace process.
Click here to write a note of support to 60 Minutes' Bob Simon.
Thanks for all you do.
- Isaac
Isaac Luria
Online Director
J Street
January 29, 2009
[1] "CBS's 60 Minutes Scapegoats Israel," Committee for Accuracy in Middle
East Reporting in America. January 26, 2009.
[2] "ADL Letter to CBS News' 60 Minutes," Anti-Defamation League. January
26, 2009.
[3] "Olmert to Haaretz: Two-state solution, of Israel is done for," by Aluf
Benn, David Landau, Barak Ravid, Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondents and
AP. Haaretz. November 29, 2007.
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> 1 of 2 CBS: Israeli settlers trying to prevent peace deal
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> 2 of 2 CBS: Israeli settlers trying to prevent peace deal
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KwUSQL9zc&feature=related
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> This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a powerful and thoughtful report on the
> danger that Israeli settlements pose to the chances for Israeli-Palestinian
> peace. If you haven't watched the segment, it is must-see journalism. Watch
> it here.
>
> All week long, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon has been under attack for supposed
> "anti-Israel bias." CAMERA (the Orwellian-named Committee for Accuracy in
> Middle East Reporting in America) alerted their activist network - flooding
> the 60 Minutes' offices and their advertisers with angry phone calls
> charging media bias. [1] Jewish community leader Abe Foxman fired off a
> letter calling the piece a "hatchet job on Israel." [2]
> Journalists - as well as rabbis, professors and elected officials - know
> that if they raise questions about what Israel does - they'll often get
> attacked as anti-Israel. It's one way the forces of the status quo constrain
> debate and discussion on what's really best for Israel and the United
> States.
>
> It's time for a reporter like Bob Simon to know that those of us with
> balanced views value balanced reporting - and we know how to write letters
> too! If he's getting an earful from CAMERA and others, then the pro-Israel,
> pro-peace movement should be showing him support.
>
> Click here to view the segment and send Bob Simon a note of support for his
> accurate and thoughtful report on Israeli settlements and the occupation.
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_UwGgLdmdI&eurl=http://salsa.wiredfor...
Groups like JStreet are not the main stream of Jewish thought. Most
Jews in Israel and the United States don't agree with this leftist
group. Israel will never go back to the 67 borders, will never give up
all the settlements, will not give up Jerusalem, and will not accept
refugees.Groups like Peace Now for example who claim to have wide
support cannot even get funded by Israelis they are funded by the
British and the EU governments, and are considered traitors by most
Israelis. On February 19th your about to see a revolution in Israeli
politics. The Current leftist government will be replaced so get use
to it the left is losing power.
Ralph Levy
Ralph's Rant A Pro Israel Blog
http://ralphsrant1.blogspot.com
alen
> 1 of 2 CBS: Israeli settlers trying to prevent peace deal
>
>
> 2 of 2 CBS: Israeli settlers trying to prevent peace deal
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KwUSQL9zc&feature=related
>
> This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a powerful and thoughtful report on the
> danger that Israeli settlements pose to the chances for Israeli-Palestinian
> peace. If you haven't watched the segment, it is must-see journalism. Watch
> it here.
>
> All week long, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon has been under attack for supposed
> "anti-Israel bias." CAMERA (the Orwellian-named Committee for Accuracy in
> Middle East Reporting in America) alerted their activist network - flooding
> the 60 Minutes' offices and their advertisers with angry phone calls
> charging media bias. [1] Jewish community leader Abe Foxman fired off a
> letter calling the piece a "hatchet job on Israel." [2]
> Journalists - as well as rabbis, professors and elected officials - know
> that if they raise questions about what Israel does - they'll often get
> attacked as anti-Israel. It's one way the forces of the status quo constrain
> debate and discussion on what's really best for Israel and the United
> States.
>
> It's time for a reporter like Bob Simon to know that those of us with
> balanced views value balanced reporting - and we know how to write letters
> too! If he's getting an earful from CAMERA and others, then the pro-Israel,
> pro-peace movement should be showing him support.
>
> Click here to view the segment and send Bob Simon a note of support for his
> accurate and thoughtful report on Israeli settlements and the occupation.
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_UwGgLdmdI&eurl=http://salsa.wiredfor...
Appalling and disgraceful!
Alen