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IN response to Stanley Feldman's points about the disturbing al-Jazeera programme on Israel's 1948 War of Independence, I too watch this channel . . . but didn't see that particular episode.
However, last Sunday I watched a follow-up. The main point to remember is that - and it was openly said - they believe Israel will eventually disappear. As for the War of Independence, six Arab nations attacked Israel. Al-Jazeera attempted to portray that Israel had modern weapons against the Arabs' inferior ones. The US and the UK had an arms embargo on all arms to Israel in 1948 while Britain was supplying weapons to Saudi, Egypt and Jordan. A British officer, Glubb Pasha - Lieutenant General Sir John Bagot Glubb - was the commander of the Arab Legion, the strongest force fighting against the Israelis for the Jordanians. This shows up that falsehood. The Arab nations ordered the Arabs living in the area to move out so that they could drive the Jews into the sea. That's why there were 500,000-800,000 refugees on the march while a war was raging. Around 120,000 did not run. They now number 1.5 million of Israel's population. This fact alone puts paid to the lie of ethnic cleansing. I daily watch both al-Jazeera and - worse still - RT TV (Russian Television). The bias makes the BBC sound like the Knesset!
Steve Mann,
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