Haaretz
Haaretz is a middle brow newspaper published in Israel in Hebrew. The online version is in English and Hebrew. It is written for very different constituencies. Most Hebrew readers will be Jews. The English version goes worldwide and can be accessed by those who do not admire Zionists. Haaretz feeds us evidence to show they are right beyond all reasonable doubt. But to get access to all of their depravity you have to read the Hebrew version.
How do they serve different masters, or rather address different audiences? One answer is to censor the English version. I suspected this. The versions below show it. Haaretz is a propaganda machine but then most media operations are. For example the BBC is left wing, grossly racist and incites homosexuality. It is cunning enough to look superficially even handed. But this is a case against Haaretz.
Executive Summary:-
Haaretz
gives us some of the dirt in the English version and rather less in
the version that some of us get to see. The English version can be highly
incriminating regarding the realities in Israel. So the Hebrew version will be
damning. There are Zionists who complain that it tells us
anything incriminating.
Haaretz
The Wikipedia tells us about it. The Wikipedia is also an outfit with an agenda which it does not want you to know. It is run by Zionist Jews, just like most of the Western media.
Haaretz Tells The Truth. A Jew Whines About It
Isi Leibler is a Zionist Jew complaining that Haaretz is a useful source for people who do not like Jewish goings on in Israel. He is right on that. He then claims that they lie. But he is does not give any examples. His lack of evidence is an admission that Haaretz tells the truth and a very ugly truth at that. Is Leibler ashamed of Jewish evil? Not a chance.
Israel deliberately destroyed Arab archaeological sites
This article was never going to please Zionists and that means it was never going to make it into the main stream media of England or America. Perhaps the Hebrew version is more to the point; I do not know but it was not found on their front page or on a search for the author or headline. They are not that keen on telling us about Zionist evil.
Israel Shahak And Media Lies
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He began publishing translations of the Hebrew press into English, alongside his own commentaries, arguing that Western activists needed better knowledge about conditions in Israel, and that the English-language editions of Hebrew newspapers were being intentionally distorted for Western audiences. This practice, along with writing letters to the editor, remained staples of his work for decades.
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Professor Shahak had a track record they couldn't knock. They hated what he said about them though.
Looking Behind Ha'aretz's Liberal Image
QUOTE ex Ran HaCohen
A new Israeli web-site, supported by two major settlers' sites from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is dedicated to the holy cause of "encouraging and supporting the employment of Jews only". It is already listing dozens of Israeli firms that do not employ "Gentiles". In the first months of the Intifada, Israeli racists initiated a boycott of Arab shops and restaurants; now, employment of Arabs is targeted.... the point I want to make now is, that most of you haven't heard of this web-site. Right?
The site is neither confidential nor is it my discovery: I simply read about it in the Hebrew Haaretz a few days ago (24.9.02). But most of you could not. Why? Because this item was left out of Haaretzdaily.com, the English version of Haaretz.
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Racism in Israel? Blatant racism among God's Chosen People? Disgraceful isn't it?
CAMERA = Campaign for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America
Sells itself as an honest source. Most media operations do not make that specific claims. But not everyone is convinced. Source Watch tells us that:-
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In one of its media alerts, it describes Israel's acclaimed historian Benny Morris as a "fabricator". [5]. It's other targets include Robert Fisk, Israel Shahak, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, John Pilger, Ilan Pappe, Amira Hass and Gideon Levy, and has even accused Israel's prominent daily Haaretz of fuelling "anti-Israel bias". [6]
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Anyone who claims that Professor Finkelstein is wrong goes down in my estimation. He has been heavily criticised for telling the truth. I am also disposed to believe Edward Said and Israel Shahak.
The one face of Haaretz
This writer, a Jew tells us that Haaretz does not censor the English version but he is vague on specifics. He does claim however that Ran HaCohen [ he of Looking Behind Ha'aretz's Liberal Image ] is known to be unreliable. He fails to convince.
UPDATED - Haaretz Indifferent to Journalistic Norms
This is CAMERA again. Read for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself.
PS Jew only roads do sound like gross racism.
Bint Jbeil on Gideon Levy
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The following articles written by Gideon Levy, an honest and sincere Israeli journalist, in the Haaretz, one of the most circulated Israeli newspaper, expose a little of Israel's racist and criminal face by telling some of the Palestinians sufferings under the Zionists occupation.
Throughout these articles, you will find gruesome accounts of the Israeli "Justice", "Equality" and great "Democracy" (an ethnic democracy, a Jew-docracy, as called by Knesset member, Ahmad Tibi)!!!
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Bint Jbeil is a Palestinian outfit. If they seem to be annoyed by the reality of Zionism it is easy to understand. Seeing your family murdered can do that.
Ha’aretz Suppresses The Truth About Torture In Israel
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"Prison interrogation techniques in Israel: Now you are paralyzed, as we promised"
"We have to make you do a little sports," the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture. The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his feet.............. He entered prison sound of body and mind and emerged a broken man. For four days and four nights nonstop, he says, he was interrogated and subjected to torture of the most brutal kind. The result is the person we see before us in the wheelchair , in the elegant home high in the village of Saida, north of Tul Karm, which was placed at his disposal by a friend after he was released from Israeli prison a month ago.
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Ha'aretz is the main stream Jewish newspaper that tells some of the truth some of the time. This is one of the times. Use their search engine or Google's to look for the title and draw blank. Search for the victim's name and get nothing. They report evil but mainly for home consumption. Their Hebrew version is more to the point than it is on line in English.
Haaretz and Censorship
Someone else looks the Haaretz track record.
Protected by the “system”
Jews attack Arabs maliciously with the enthusiastic connivance of police and army. Amira Hass writes for Haaretz in honest mode.
Yet
More on Israeli Democracy
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It is
characteristic of regimes led by military juntas, that artistic
protest events are broken up by military police on the flimsiest of
pretext. Even I was shocked when I read the following article from
Haaretz, about an army police attack on a photo exhibition on war
crimes in Hebron. The Israeli army has really sunk to a new low in
its relationship to Israeli society (it can't sink much lower
vis-à-vis the Palestinians).
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Haaretz in honest
mode again.
The
long, dry summer
by Gideon Levy
Cutting
off the water supply is very effective harassment. Haaretz tells it
like it is.
Haaretz
interview with IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon
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[
IMRA: If one only has time to read one item this week - or perhaps
month -this is the one. COS Ya'alon spells out Israel's battle for
survival against Palestinians committed to the destruction of Israel
in stages and warns of the consequences of signaling national
weakness.]
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Haaretz and IMRA [ Independent
Media Review Analysis - it is a Zionist front operation - Editor
] feed us the party line. We now KNOW that the Iraq had nukes is a
fairy story.
The
two faces of Haaretz
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Jonathan
Cook / Electronic Intifada
Israel's leading "liberal"
newspaper, Haaretz,
has received numerous accolades from its foreign readers... for its
coverage of the Intifada. Prize-winning journalists Amira Hass and
Gideon Levy have won an enthusiastic audience abroad since their
reports started being regularly translated into English three years
ago, contributing to the newspaper's image as Israel's conscience.
For many outside Israel, Haaretz
is their main window on the Jewish state....
As several
commentators have noted, the Hebrew edition of the paper has drifted
rightwards, in line with the rest of Israeli society.... Other
analysts pinpoint another phenomenon: the tendency of Haaretz
to say one thing to its Hebrew-reading audience (Israelis) and quite
another thing to its English-reading audience (mostly non-Israelis).
Ran HaCohen, in his regular "Letter from Israel," has
charted
the corruption of the newspaper's professional standards,
revealing what can only be characterized as an attempt to deceive
foreign readers about the moral state of the Israeli polity.
HaCohen
points to the omission of Intifada stories that might cast an
unsympathetic light on Israel as well as the wilful mistranslation of
passages that reveal the depth and extent of racist attitudes towards
Palestinians now prevalent in Israel.
Dear
reader, as Israel slides ever deeper into a morass of racism and
ethnic solipsism, please do not lean too heavily on Haaretz
to understand how or why this "light unto the nations" has
grown so dim.
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What can I add to that? The article is
well worth reading in its entirety.
Haaretz
Reporter Claims Sharon Murdered His First Wife
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Powerful
suspicions that Sharon eliminated his first wife and possibly his
first son are widespread. Not so ironically, the accusers are mostly
from the "disengagement" supporters of the Left, who made
them when Sharon was their bogeyman, not hero.
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Murdering family is a gross
betrayal. Haaretz is not pulling its punches too much.
Nazi hunter lost in translation
It turns out that the Jews knew full well that the Wiesenthal mob was onto a nice little earner. The rest of us got the sycophantic drivel.
Mark Elf - Jew Sans Frontieres
Here's another example of the Hebrew version of Haaretz containing more than the English translation:
English
The Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre is headed by Dr. Efraim Zuroff. In his "hunting trips" against the few Nazi war criminals who are still alive, he can be seen as Wiesenthal's true successor.
The centre itself, however, has long since become an international brand, and [its founder Rabbi Marvin] Hier has become a celebrity who likes rubbing shoulders with royalty and international leaders. As a result, Hier has also become a serious fund-raiser leading to five more branches of the centre, and a forthcoming Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. [Yuk]
The Hebrew, however, continues:
to the displeasure of Yad Vashem Museum.
Only years after the establishment of the centre in Los Angeles Wiesenthal understood that Rabbi Hier and his assistants had turned his name into a money producing plant. Hier gave in [to an obvious pressure from S. Wiesenthal who demanded his part of the spoils – se] and since then till his death the glorified Nazi hunter got a pension from the institute bearing his name.
Regulars here and Hebrew readers will know that this is not a first for Haaretz.
SourceWatch
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Welcome to Source Watch, a collaborative project of the Centre for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of Source Watch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. Source Watch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, Source Watch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists and government agencies. Unlike some other wikis, Source Watch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor.
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I take Source Watch to be legitimate. I will be doing some checking later.
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Updated on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:03:42