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MEDIA BIAS
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:  10 Jun 96
RE:    
REF:   NYT Weekly Review 9 Jun 96 (Schneeman)
CC:
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OVERALL SUMMARY, NYT Weekly Review, 9 Jun 96.:  Practicallynothing, Bibi-bashing on simmer.  Wait-and-see mode.  Eeerie.

SUMMARY, SCHNEEMAN ARTICLE. :  Reasonable and unobjectionable,with only one minor exception, detailed below:

TEXT:  " -- especially with [Chairperson Poopoohead], for hwom he[Netanyahu] seems to have a  person adversion.
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COMMENT: BAD VIBES AT MA'ALOT

Apart from disregarding, with Christian charity, the CV of 
the world's most successful professional terrorist, thepossibilty that this is a World-Class Sleazeball, apsychopath of sexuality so weird it ain't even listed, hasnot yet been considered.

In the USA it's really bad form to entertain a personalanimosity; a True Businessman will shake hands with and screwanybody.

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MEDIA BIAS
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:  10 Jun 96
RE:    
REF:    NYT Weekly Review, 9 Jun 96 (Judith Miller)
CC:
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SUMMARY:  Small potatoes, or undercooked stones. 
Aims to discredit the new government with the liberal USA Jewishcommunity.      

Don't recognize the name of the writer.  Not, one hopes, the nonorthodox convert we didn't quite register.

Anyhow, this is a  bit more like it, the old familiar buttonspushed in quick  sequence:

"Jews of Hebron seized an ancient Turkish bath"
"male-only dancing"
Assorted snide references to the piety of those perfidious Jewswho had just siezed the bath, yet celebrated
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COMMENT:  You call this Israel-bashing?   
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There's an unnecessarily sneaky trick to rope in a pejorativetitle:  The titleis "Israel's Fundamentalist Thing" -- but darenot say -- Mad Cows & Englishmen Defend US! -- that the writercalled us fundamentalists;  that epithet is tagged in Paragraph 9to a Professor:   
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"Over the past 15  years, says Professor Joel Kraemer  of theUniversity of  Chicago, ultra-Orthodox voices -- what hecalls Jewish fundamentalists -- "
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Having managed to introduced the term, the writer then grabs inand runs for the goal-line of an undefined playing field. 

But now we have something to chomp on:
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"Through 16 hesder yeshivas -- religious seminaries thatcombine eduation with military service -- religious influencewithin the once adamantly secular military 
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COMMENT:  Huh?  They used to keep out dotim? Or thedotim are now making everyone daven? 
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has grown, so much so that seminary graduates and studentsnow comprise nearly 40 percent of the officrs in elitemilitary units, Professor Heilman says.  (One graduate was[Rabin's assassain]
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COMMENT:  Gasp!  Sounds like Latin America.
Secret para-military training schools disguised asseminaries sending out Khomeni-esque activists toinfiltrate and take over the military. 

One point that's fudged is that 'elite military units'are not the senior command structure -- apparentlyselectively shaped by Labour -- but the commando units,whose officers are junior field officers. 

Ok:  It's a shopworn trick to hide,  as a facade ofquaisi-academic objectivity,  behind an interview withan apparent authority; either one with an agneda, or onewho's remarks  can be selectively used to buttress one'sown agenda.                  

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FUROR OF THE PHANTOM TAXI-DRIVER

"The Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg created a furor when heclaimed that Jews were genetically superior to non-Jews.
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COMMENT:  Gasp!  Everyone in the USA knows that claimsof 'genetic superiority' are racist nonsense.  (Which,as a matter of fact, they are.  Eg,those of  ProfessorHuffenpuffer of Harvard in 'The Bell Curve')

COMMENT: Reckon I missed that furor, and so did the the Israel English media (JP, JR, English news.)  For thatmatter, this is practically the first I've heard of it.
Even Comrade Sarid didn't furor it, that I heard.

Note to an advance sortie of Habad-bashing, revenge ofthe 3-day good-for-the-Jews blitz.  R. Ginzburg, Igather, has smicha from Lubavitch; so do lots of folks. Smicha is more nearly like graduating from a university-- ie, it's precisely that; rabbinic ordination -- thanjoining a political party which one represents withone's every word.                          
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PARTING RED  HERRING:

[Citing Naomi Hazan], "even as the numbr of religius legislatorsrose, the number of women in Parliament dropped from 12 to 9."]
                            
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COMMENT:  Gasp!  Male chauvinist religious fundementaliststromping over women's rights.

That was an unanticipated side-effect of the primary system;both Left and Right showed a decrease in women candidates. The most politically damaging change was Yossi Saridsupplanting Shulamit Aloni, Israel's foremost feminist, ashead of RaTz/MeReTz . 
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Tom E. Friedman did not tell Israel what to do this week.
Hang in there.
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