I note with interest that my esteemed friends at ICIJS have appended John Lyon's recent article on their brilliant blog.
http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?eid=15219&ICJS=6954&article=3790
In this way they elicit commentary from people who receive their links.
Lyons current article is indeed excellent: but he has a history of being a primary antagonist of Israel. Any favourable comment this writer could contemplate making is automatically sequestered / compromised not only by his habit / history of penning egregiously anti - Israel articles, then alternating his style - but being incorrigibly repetitive in his actions!
Lyons contributions that vociferously attack Israel are many: it is just a matter of time before I document them. His duplicituous, contrarian, sycophantic humbugs of articles are legendary for students of anti - semitism
Far too few - and indeed do not offset the original sin!
He obviously thinks we have no memory or are stupid or both!
This is a basic media tactic of his ilk. It has no gravitas with those who see the humbug.
I guess taken to an extreme - a writer could espouse that Hitler did not murder enough of my family - and offset it with a few motherhood - type articles that are indeed excellent!
At it's simplest - his apparent goal is a tactic of mixing his neutral / biased and favourable articles so he thinks thus has a basis for claiming / deflecting the attacks on him -as his articles are 'pro - Jewish'
Some of his 'friends' are leading, ignorant Jews.
No - it is no error - Jewish / Israel are the same in any rational context.
Although some are learning about some in the duplicituous media!
A few days after Lyons launched on the pages of The Australian 5 May 2012 a lamentable article, I wrote to Rupert Murdoch complaining. 9 May 2012.
My old friend Rupert organized a back - dated personal apology from The Austraalian dated 8 May 2012.
Sigh.
But it gets more interesting.
Lyons wrote one of his articles from the sycophantic annals of his mind - dated 12 May 2012
How predictably contrived.
Here are all the links to articles salient to this screed.
http://mediaspinners.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/john-lyons-as-middle-east-correspondent.html
http://mediaspinners.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/new-john-lyons-1-2-125-and-16512.html
And there are amazing related matters here as well - my other blogsite only recently created.
Lyons compromised the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - although one could argue that the Chief Rabbi managed all by himself: Lyons was merely a strange vehicle!
http://generallyjewish.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/chief-rabbi-jonathan-sacks-london.html
http://generallyjewish.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/my-email-to-jonathan-sacks-ex-sept-27.html
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http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?eid=15219&ICJS=6954&article=3790
Israelis resigned to fresh wave of terror
On Wednesday night, as news of the terrorist attack against Israelis in Bulgaria was emerging, a group of foreign journalists in Jerusalem gathered in the home of a leading lawyer for an evening with Israelis keen to talk about how the worldviewed their country.
It was a high-powered group of Israelis: former prime minister Ehud Olmert walked in, fresh from being found not guilty of key charges in a corruption trial.But the mood of the evening was dominated by the news that five Israelis had been killed as they arrived for a holiday in Bulgaria. And while Olmert, a big political figure in Israel, normally commands the attention of a group such as this, it was another guest who was in the spotlight. This guest had an extremely difficult job: to make sure that when Israelis were killed overseas by terrorism they were brought home quickly and that the needs of the families were met.
The Foreign Ministry liaised with him through the evening following the murder of the Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver by a suicide bomber.
'There are days that are painful and yesterday was one such day'
EHUD BARAK
ISRAEL'S DEFENSE MINISTER
The man also had to undertake his grim role justmonths ago; he was in charge of making sure three children killed as theyarrived at school in Toulouse, France, in March were brought back to Israel. The Israelis at the dinner feared that this could signal the beginning of a new wave of attacks on Jewish targets. "Israel needs to assume that weare now at the beginning of a wave of terror attacks of this kind," Alex Fishman wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth. Young Israelis are prolific travellers. It is almost a rite of passage that after their time in the army, which is compulsory for most, they travel to decompress.
The Israelis killed in Bulgaria never had a chance. Unbeknown to them, as they walked from the airport they were being followed. The video footage of the bomber is chilling. Wearing shorts and baseball cap, he appears to be a typical backpacker. But he is pacing back and forth, waiting for his prey, and it is now clear his bulging backpackwas heavy with explosives. Survivors returning to Israel yesterday gave insights into the bombing. One man told how when he jumped from the bus he could see three bodies below. Another said all he could see were "disconnected hands and legs".
When you live in Israel you see the human effect of terrorism up close. One of the most difficult stories I've had to cover was the funeral of the four Toulouse victims. As we stood at the cemetery outside Jerusalem, first came the body of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler.
But when the next body was carried in, that of three-year-old Gabriel, it wastoo much for most people. Even the translator of French foreign minister Alain Juppe, who was attending, could not bear it.
She broke down. It was the smallest body: it barely covered one-third of the stretcher. It is difficult for those who do not live in Israel to understand the impact that terrorism, particularly the second intifada has had on this society.
I once asked my dentist, who had moved from Melbourne, whether he had been in Jerusalem during the second intifada, when Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli civilians. He explained that he had been in the Moment cafe in Jerusalem one Saturday evening when a man exploded himself, killing 11. A year later a bus was blown up outside his practice and he had the horrible task of trying to work out which bodies still had life in them and assisting.
One person every foreign journalist coming to Israel should meet is Arnold Roth, originally from Melbourne. On August 9, 2001, Roth's daughter Malki, 15, walkedinto the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem. A man with a guitar case also walked in and exploded himself, killing Malki and 14 others. "For all practical purposes my daughter's murder took place this morning," Roth told me.
It is excruciating but important to hear Roth recall the night his daughter was killed. He turned up to one hospital looking for his daughter and a frantic doctor told him:"There's a dead girl over there,go and have a look, and there's another girl over there who's about to be operated on."
He and his wife Frimet now run a foundation in Malki's name that raises money for disabled children so they can be cared for at home. It gives help to both Jewish and Arab children. Since the second intifada ended in 2004, Israel has enjoyed relative calm. There are many reasons for this, including better security by Israel and an acknowledgment by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank that violence is no answer. New threats to Israelis abroad, as suggested by Toulouse and Bulgaria, appear driven by Islamic extremists taking cues from Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah.
No matter how good Israel's intelligence is, it is impossible to detect every threat. Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak told a shocked Israeli public yesterday that Bulgaria was not an intelligence failure. "The success of our intelligence and of others has been great, but there are days that are painful, and yesterday was one such day," he said.
Israelis now are bracing themselves for a possible return to the horrors of the past.
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