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TO:    David bar Ilan, Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:  11/18/93
RE:    Media Bias -- IBA English Radio - TGIF - Dvar Torah
REF:   Loc cit Friday 13:15 Nov. 19; Memo, sa/Bedein 11/19/93
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COUNTERATTACKING THEORCRATIC IDEOLOGY ON ISRAEL'S STATE-RUN RADIO
                                                          
Evidently the Labour-Meretz administration is exerting politicalcontrol of IBA English "Thank goodness its's Friday" to try tocounteract the opposition of almost the entire religious-Zionistcommunity, and much of the ultra-orthodox community, to cedingterritorial control of parts of biblical Israel.

As noted (loc. cit.), R. ben-Hollander's dvar Torah's on theEnglish News "TGIF" program (Fridays 13:15) have gone to sometimescontrived lenghts to edduce a peace-process moral from the portionof the week.  ]

	(This week's commentary on Vayetze, the portion centered onJacob's vision at Bet El, was apolitical, except maybe for a acryptic remark that "now the children of Abraham, Issac, andJacob are returning to the land."  The usual phrase fordesignating the Jewish people is "the children of Jacob";descendents of Abraham include the descendents of Ishamel, takenas progenitor of the Arab peoples.  In short this phrase may havebeen a veiled attempt to lend Jewish religious legitimacy to themooted return of Palestinian "refugees".)

	The Torah commentary was preceded by a long, dull, interviewwith a rabbi whom the producer of TGIF, Efraim Geffen, tried, withsome success, to get to say that rabbis should not take politicalstands on the peace process.
	Had IBA wished to be objective, or even intellectuallystimulating, it could have summoned the usual panel of 3 (rabbis,in this case) of opposing viewpoints.

	Q.E.D.:  It's a plot.