The Worst, Most Biased MSM Article In…Maybe Of All-Time
I’m just going to reprint the Reuters article below, and you decide…the picture above is the picture they used and this was the caption:
Islamic Action Front supporters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally against Israeli attacks on Palestinians and to mark the 60th anniversary of ‘Nakba’ or ‘catastrophe’, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees were forced to flee their homes in the fighting that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948, in Amman May 15, 2008.
The headline reads:
Bush Hails Israel’s “Chosen People” As Arabs Lament
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President George W. Bush told Israelis on Thursday they were a “chosen people” who can forever count on American support against enemies like Hamas and Iran.
On a day when Palestinians remembered homes and land lost as Israel was created in 1948, Bush made only fleeting reference to their aspirations for a state of their own in a speech marking Israel’s 60th anniversary that was laced with references to God.
Basking in ovations on the second day of a farewell visit to a country where his presidency is hailed as a golden age, Bush again said little of the talks he has sponsored in recent months between Israel and the Palestinians, which he hopes can bring a deal on a Palestinian state before he leaves office in January.
Speaking of the “promise of God” for a “homeland for the chosen people” in Israel, Bush told the Israeli parliament after a visit to the Roman-era Jewish fortress at Masada: “Masada shall never fall again, and America will always stand with you.”
He predicted the defeat of Islamist enemies Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda in a “battle of good and evil.”
Letting Iran have nuclear weapons would be an “unforgivable betrayal of future generations,” he said. By comparing talking with such foes to appeasement of Hitler, he sparked a debate at home among those campaigning to succeed him as president.
Bush described the “bonds of the Book” — faith in the Bible shared by Christians like himself and Jews — as bolstering an “unbreakable” alliance between Israel and the United States.
Of the Palestinians, half of whom were pushed into exile to make way for the Jewish state, Bush said that, looking ahead another 60 years in the future, “the Palestinian people will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserved.”
“SLAP IN THE FACE”
The president’s language in Israel has dismayed Palestinians looking for the U.S. superpower to mediate in their negotiations with Israel. Islamist Hamas, which spurns such talks, said Bush sounded “like a priest or a rabbi” and had delivered a “slap in the face” to those Palestinians who placed their hopes in him.
Bush said: “Some people suggest that if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away … America utterly rejects it.”
In scattered protests marking the anniversary of Israel’s first day of statehood on May 15, 1948, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip threw rocks towards Israeli police and troops, who fired tear gas and bullets in the air.
In a speech marking what Palestinians call the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, when some 700,000 Arabs fled or were forced from their homes during Israel’s foundation, President Mahmoud Abbas said: “Isn’t it time for Israel to respond to the call of a just and comprehensive peace and achieve historic reconciliation between the two peoples on this sacred and tortured land?”
But Palestinian political analyst Ali Jarbawi said Bush’s rhetoric showed Washington was not being an honest broker: “He is not talking about a two-state solution. He is talking about a state of leftovers for the Palestinians,” Jarbawi said.
Arabs are especially sensitive to what they see as amnesia, or worse, among Israelis and foreigners about how many of them were forced into exile in 1948. By saying Jewish “refugees arrived here in the desert,” Bush may have done little to persuade many Palestinians their own refugees are not forgotten.
Amid the standing ovations that have followed him since he arrived in Israel on Wednesday, there was some discord.
Three Arab members of Israel’s parliament held up a sign reading “We shall overcome” and were escorted out of the Knesset chamber as Bush began to speak.
“HOPEFUL” ON DEAL
Asked about Bush’s speech, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president was “hopeful” a deal could be struck by the time he leaves office.
In Ramallah in the West Bank, pedestrians stood at attention as sirens wailed for two minutes to remember the Nakba.
Calling Bush “the leader of evil in the world,” Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said the group would never grow weak.
At Masada, a cable car carried Bush high above the Dead Sea to the plateau where, according to a Roman-era historian, 960 Jewish men, women and children committed suicide rather than surrender to Roman legions crushing a rebellion.
There have been few signs of progress in U.S.-brokered negotiations since promises were made at a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, in November.
In the latest setback to a deal, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he will quit if indicted in a police corruption probe. The split between Abbas and Hamas and fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza have also hampered peace efforts.
On Friday, Bush and his wife Laura will wind up their visit to Jerusalem and fly on to Saudi Arabia before weekend talks in Egypt with Abbas and other Arab leaders.
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Heller and Brenda Gazzar in Jerusalem, Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah, Haitham Tamimi in Hebron and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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It’s gotten to the point where I can’t stand to read this stuff anymore. To see the delegitimasation of Israel go mainstream disheartens and, frankly, scares me.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmI’m going to go vomit now. Thanks Reuters
May 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Fuckin’ A, W!! 
May 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pmJust finished the “Teddy and the KGB” article so this is no surprise at all.
Reuters is French…Franchie must be proud.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pmIts mostly quotes so the authors missed out on some prime space for even more bias
May 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pm“Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip threw rocks towards Israeli”
Silly, Achmed! All those rocks are just making Israel bigger!
May 15th, 2008 at 5:30 pmBoo f’ing hoo… As long as Arabs continue to inbreed, they will continue to get stupider and stupider…
May 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pmHey, great article Reuters! See if you Reuter’s intellects and historians remember any of these guys:
Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites.
NO YOU SAY? Well, that is too bad your history is so rusty. They tormented the Jews for a time too. You can add the Palestinians to that list too for brevity’s sake.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pmWaste the liberal media!
May 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pmThat article was bad enough to have been written by the late Peter Jennings (Hannan Ashrawi’s boyfriend)…I actually was kind of glad he died.
But these Reuters pukes carry on that fine Israel-hating tradition.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pmThe only thing worse than the lack of accountability for the media that puts out this crap is the number of tools that buy into it.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Goodbye Natalie
Let them weep and lament their “catastrophe”… It will be nothing compared to the catastrophe that will face them at the return of Christ, when all of those that hate His people will be utterly destroyed 
May 15th, 2008 at 7:34 pmJew haters all seem to have a very short memory or lack of historical knowledge when it comes to the final disposition of those that have opposed Jews throughout history.
Nice to know anti-semitism hasn’t gone out of style. Thanks Reuters.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:34 pmI know which side I’ll be on when the shooting starts….
May 15th, 2008 at 11:20 pmSomebody asked me how much ammo I have stockpiled, “enough to get more”, says I.
People all over the world are more and more influenced by articles like these. They forget that Israel is the only decent democrazy in the whole region over there…. yet the Evil side of the false prohet wins more and more sympathy worldwide.
Palistinians ( a recent word since 69 if I am correct) were of no importance to Arabs before. Jerusalem is not even mentioned one time in the Quran, the book of this Evil sect
May 15th, 2008 at 11:45 pmmike3481
“Reuters is French…Franchie must be proud.”
don’t follow the master of BS’ path,(ie papa Bully) it’ ain’t french, but ANGLO-SAXON ;
coocoo papa Bully, a Wikilink for you too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters
May 15th, 2008 at 11:56 pmMike3481,
nah, it’s Anglo-Saxon’s, the only BSitters on that planet
BTW, what does mean 3481 ?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:01 amjust do like papa Bully, google Reuters wikipedia
May 16th, 2008 at 12:08 amActually franchie, it WAS an anglo-saxon company (founded in Germany, moved to London). Since the takeover by Thompson it has been a Canadian company headquartered in Connecticut. So considering the way those two places feel about American exceptionalism, you can understand why most people simply lump Reuters in with AFP as being “french”. Regardless, it’s not the ownership that counts, it’s the morons they hire to write and edit the rubbish they put out. Which they obviously did such a bang-up job of here.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:17 amand you thik thare french that write in english ?
even in your so called “good sources” agencies, there are offices in different countries whose journalists are of foreign nationalities
May 16th, 2008 at 7:03 am“War is deception.”
–Mohammad
May 16th, 2008 at 7:52 amAnd I’ll say again…”Regardless, it’s not the ownership that counts, it’s the morons they hire to write and edit the rubbish they put out.”
Your nationality or state of origin has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a moron or write rubbish. We just happen to see a higher density from certain places as opposed to others.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:55 amHey you’re not being fair.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:40 amAl-Reuters are ace with photoshop!
They can make a picture anything they want it to be.
“Your nationality or state of origin has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a moron or write rubbish.”
I can’t but only agree
“We just happen to see a higher density from certain places as opposed to others.”
the percentage of “morons” or assholes happen to be the same everywhere
But I understand your partisan position, if I were in your place, I would probably have said that
May 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am