Nadene Goldfoot
On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Rabin was murdered on November 4, 1995, by Yigal Amir, an extremist Jew, who was opposed to the Oslo Accords and the handing over of control of parts of the West Bank to the Palestinians as a part of a landmark peace agreement. Yitzhak Rabin Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין, 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. The perpetrator was Yigal Amir, a 25-year-old former Hesder student and far-right law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir had strenuously opposed Rabin's peace initiative, particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords, because he felt that an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank would deny Jews their "biblical heritage which they had reclaimed by establishing settlements". Amir had come to believe that Rabin was a rodef, meaning a "pursuer" who endangered Jewish lives. The concept of din rodef ("law of the pursuer") is a part of traditional Jewish law. Amir believed he would be justified under din rodef in removing Rabin as a threat to Jews in the territories. Israel of today did not see it that way.
Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was raised in a Labor Zionist household. He learned agriculture in school and excelled as a student. He led a 27-year career as a soldier and ultimately attained the rank of Rav Aluf. As a teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He eventually rose through its ranks to become its chief of operations during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He joined the newly formed Israel Defense Forces in late 1948 and continued to rise as a promising officer. He helped shape the training doctrine of the IDF in the early 1950s, and led the IDF's Operations Directorate from 1959 to 1963. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 1964 and oversaw Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
President William Jefferson Clinton accompanying Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at Camp David. The three of them pause for a photo-op by the press. This footage is official public record produced by the White House Television (WHTV) crew, provided by the Clinton Presidential Library. This was 7 years after the Oslo accords with PM Rabin that also included Clinton and Arafat.
The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. The summit took place between 11 and 25 July 2000 and was an effort to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The summit ended without an agreement.Reports of the outcome of the summit have been described as illustrating the Rashomon effect, in which the multiple witnesses gave contradictory and self-serving interpretations.
The Rashomon effect is a storytelling and writing method in cinema in which an event is given contradictory interpretations or descriptions by the individuals involved, thereby providing different perspectives and points of view of the same incident. The term, derived from the 1950 Japanese film Rashomon, is used to describe the phenomenon of the unreliability of eyewitnesses. (It depends so much on who the writer is writing for, what politics or religion.) as to how and what they see during the event.)
July 2000, the Palestinians complained that Prime Minister Barak from the Labor Party, the left, was terrible; cold, devious, impetuous, scheming, unreliable, untrustworthy, etc...This is the political power they were dealing with.
Barak had offered to rectify, in one fell swoop, a final status agreement that was closer to anything they had ever been offered by an elected Israeli leader. It didn't include everything they had asked for, but he didn't threaten them with violence either, should they reject his offer.
Barak was offering to dismantle the Jewish settlements in the Gaza and
most of those in Judea and Samaria (West Bank)and
had agreed to discuss swapping land in return for the concentrations of settlers he wanted to be allowed to remain.
He was offering the Palestinians contiguous territories in the West Bank and all of Gaza.
He agreed to share Jerusalem and
even indicated his interest to agree on the issue of refugees,
But he was never going to let masses of them return to Israel proper. This was the one and only Jewish state established in the first place for Jews who had not been fairly treated in any other country for 2,000 years. Barak knew that. He wasn't a religious man, but knew his population.
Netanyahu was the 9th PM on 18 June 1996, followed by Ehud Barak, followed by Sharon, the 11th. Olmert was the 12th, with Netanyahu again being the 12th as well. The 13th was Naftali Bennet, 14th Yair Lapid and then Benjamin Netanyahu on 29 December 2022 to the present.
In the USA, William Jefferson Clinton, Democrat, had been their president from 1993 to 2001, and then George Walker Bush, Republican, took over from 2001 to 2009. Barack Hussein Obama II was our 44th president from 2009 to 2017. Presidents get 4 years to a term, the its election time again.
The Palestinians would have to wait a little as his offers needed ratification by the Israeli electorate, but public opinion polls were saying that his offers could be achieved but on one condition: The the Palestinians join in declaring that with this agreement, the conflict was now over. This was the Israeli demand that evidently so angered Tim Llewelyn, former BBC Middle East correspondent. He wrote in The Observer on October 15, 2000, framing the problem of Palestinians having a Palestine in terms of 52 years of Palestinian dispossession and castigated the Israelis for being duplicitous throughout the years of the peace process. He wrote that Israel wasn't really withdrawing from the territories, they had never stopped building settlements. They were ethnically cleansing Jerusalem and imposing apartheid laws while forcing Arafat to act as a quisling who arrests Palestinian activists at the whim of the Israelis. Then he said that all this was actually minor compared to the real Israeli crime which was to expect the Palestinians to declare and end to the conflict. With press like this, and people who believe like Llewelyn, who don't even want to look into the facts, it's no wonder that Israel is condemned by most of the world.
For 10 years Tim Llewellyn was the BBC's Middle East correspondent. In this passionately argued polemic he accuses British broadcasters, including his former employer, of systematic bias in covering the Arab-Israeli conflict, giving undue prominence to the views of Jerusalem while disregarding the roots of the crisis, as he saw it.
Here's where he reported about with his viewpoint of being against Israel: Talk entitled 'The Battens Come Down: How the Institutional Media Stifle Middle East Reporting'. Tim Llewellyn was the BBC Middle East correspondent based in Beirut from 1976 to 1980 and in Nicosia from 1987 to 1992. He has covered all the major stories in the Middle East in the past quarter century, including the Lebanese civil war, the Palestinian question, the Iraq-Iran war, the Iranian revolution and the Gulf War. Tim was the first reporter to break the news of the massacre at Sabra and Chatila in 1982. He is now a freelance writer and broadcaster on Middle East Affairs, living in London and contributes regularly to the Guardian. Tim is also a member of the Executive Committee of the UK-based Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU). Tim offered his perspective on the current situation in the Middle East with a focus on how the Western media in particular covers the news.
When asking my computer (AI) with artificial intelligence, who is an unbiased news corporation, I had to howl and share this: Oh my G-d, but we cannot trust any AI either...
"At other times, the news you read might be strongly biased towards a political leaning because it suits the site or news outlet owner".
"There is no better example of this than the Xinhua News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Peoples Republic of China. Or the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the news agency owned by the Russian government. However, the US and other Western countries are not innocent. In the US and the UK, those controlling the journalists' pens are corporate leaders rather than government leaders." What we should do is look at the history of the writer and what is he/she a leader of or has been of? Corporation? Government? Independent? What's important? Literal knowledge or opinion?
In the US, five corporate media giants control most of the US media market: Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T, Viacom, and Fox Corporation. The merging of media companies in multi-billion-dollar deals has concentrated ownership of media outlets into an ever-decreasing number of conglomerates.
How about Fox News, people. I don't see Tucker Carlson listed anymore. His reputation has fallen . Republicans have been the viewers of Fox News while Democrats prefer others such as CNN. One viewer felt this: "Carlson is reaching when he claims Zelensky is a prosecutor of Christians. There is absolutely no evidence to support such a claim. His comments about Zelensky's personal attributes are terribly biased and troubling. Moreover, Putin, besides being a war criminal, thief and murderer-in-chief, is reptilian-like from a visual perspective to put it mildly. Carlson lost all credibility if he ever had any." Jerusalem Post mentioned that Carlson is separately facing a lawsuit from a Jewish former producer on his show who alleges that staff fostered antisemitism in the office.
The one I could trust, and this was a long time ago, was reporter Joan Peters, who wrote her findings into a book called FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL-on the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict Over Palestine, copyright 1984. She was a reporter who started being sympathetic with the Palestinians but was honest about her research. She found that the Jews had a solid case, and not the Palestinians. She did a study about where they came from and why.
She was born as Joan Friedman on 29 April, 1936 in Chicago and she attended the U of Illinois. She became a freelance writer for Harper's Magazine. She became "fascinated by the Middle East while covering the Yom Kippur War as a freelancer for CBS in 1973".She died January 5, 2015. She dug and dug, finding original documents, not taking people's word for anything. Her book haspages and pages listed with her references. It makes some PhD's work look skimpy.
It's been known that journalists write with slanted viewpoints.
Josephus, the Judaean General, certainly did. He was taken by
the Romans, a Roman friend anyway, and kept alive only if he
wrote a history that made the Romans in their mind look good.
He complied.
Why should I even trust Lozowick and his viewpoints? He's a
historian, something most reporters are not. They just know
more about writing for newspapers. He's been a lifelong liberal
and peace activist and he's defending Israel. He's been the director of
archives at Israel's Holocaust Museum. He was a soldier, IDF, from the comments his writing indicates. He is a German-born in Israeli historian and writer. He was the director of the archives at Yad Vashem. From 2011 to 2018 he was Israel's Chief Archivist at the Israel State Archives. Yaakov Lozowick was born in 1957 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. In 1980, he gained qualifications as a tourist guide. In 1982, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1984 he obtained a diploma in pedagogy and in 1989 a master's degree in contemporary Judaism from the Hebrew University. In 1995, he completed his doctorate in contemporary Judaism at Hebrew University.
"In his book, he tries to unravel the big lie that demonizes Israel and Zionism and contaminates the viler estuaries of what is nowadays dubbed "the international community." The title alone-the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence, ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities, media distorters, "peace activists" who justify terror, morality deformed intelletuals, self deceiving unconfessed haters, or merely the herd of the easily led."
I'm sick of it, and evidently he was too.
Resource:
Book: Right To Exist, by Yaaacov Lozowick
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jun/20/israel.broadcasting
https://lebanesestudies.com/tim-llewellyn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacov_Lozowick
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