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by mike · 2006-10-12

MEMRI:

On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, is clearly meant to provoke Muslims.

Selective Memri:

The Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), based in Washington but with recently-opened offices in London, Berlin and Jerusalem … is subsidised by US taxpayers because as an “independent, non-partisan, non-profit” organisation, it has tax-deductible status under American law … the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel … The co-founder and president of Memri … is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon [who] spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin … three [MEMRI staff] are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence … [others] served in the Israeli army’s Northern Command Ordnance Corps, one has an academic background, and the sixth is a former stand-up comedian.

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Anonymous says:

2006-10-18 at 10:11:12

all israeli men were in the army. it means nothing to say that all the memri staff were in the army
mike says:

2006-10-22 at 10:11:12

The militarisation of en entire society does present some alarming social side-effects:
For decades it was widely accepted that some of Israel’s top military officers and government ministers considered sexual encounters with female employees a seigneurial right … The founders of Zionism sought to create “the new Jew” — aiming to transform Jews who lived in the Diaspora, perceived as bookish and weak, into men of muscle and power. The militarization of Israeli society that eventually followed in the wake of successive wars with Arab neighbors seemed to cement Israel’s male-dominated character.

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