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[MannyGoldstein]

2. There are White Supremacist groups that want to get rid of Blacks and Jews, too

Should we invade Idaho?

Most people just want good lives for themselves and their children. Israel has virtually all of the power here, they must choose war or peace.

[Jefferson23]

3. MEMRI, unreliable.

Reception

The organization's translations are regularly quoted by major international newspapers, and its work has generated strong criticism and praise. Critics have accused MEMRI of producing inaccurate, unreliable translations with undue emphasis and selectivity in translating and disseminating the most extreme views from Arabic and Persian media, which portray the Arab and Muslim world in a negative light, while ignoring moderate views that are often found in the same media outlets. Other critics charge that while MEMRI does sometimes translate pro-US or pro-democracy voices in the regional media, it systematically leaves out intelligent criticism of Western-style democracy, US and Israeli policy and secularism.[3][39][40][41]

MEMRI's work has been criticized on three grounds: that their work is biased; that they choose articles to translate selectively so as to give an unrepresentative view of the media they are reporting on; and that some of their translations are inaccurate.[5] MEMRI has responded[disputed – discuss] to the criticism, stating that their work is not biased; that they in fact choose representative articles from the Arab media that accurately reflect the opinions expressed, and that their translations are highly accurate.[5]
Accusations of bias

Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for The Guardian newspaper at the time, wrote in a public email debate with Carmon in 2003, that his problem with MEMRI was that it "poses as a research institute when it's basically a propaganda operation".[5] Earlier, Whitaker had charged that MEMRI's role was to "further the political agenda of Israel." and that MEMRI's website does not mention Carmon's employment for Israeli intelligence, or Meyrav Wurmser's political stance, which he described as an "extreme brand of Zionism".[3] Carmon responded to this by stating that his employment history is not a secret and was not political, as he served under opposing administrations of the Israeli government and that perhaps the issue was that he was Israeli: "If your complaint is that I am Israeli, then please say so." Carmon also questioned Whitaker's own biases, wondering if Whitaker's is biased in favor of Arabs—as his website on the Middle East is named "Al-Bab" ("The Gateway" in Arabic)—stating: "I wonder how you would judge an editor whose website was called "Ha-Sha-ar" ("The Gateway" in Hebrew)?[5]

Norman Finkelstein has described MEMRI as "a main arm of Israeli propaganda".In 2006, Finkelstein accused MEMRI of editing a television interview he gave in Lebanon in order to falsely impute that he was a Holocaust denier. In an interview with the newspaper In Focus in 2007, he said MEMRI uses "the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis" and "take[s] things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don't like".[42]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute

That could be a reason.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. "Hamas" != "Palestinians".

Any more than "Israel" = "Jews".

Shall I point you to the many Israeli Jews who've called for extermination of the Palestinians? Things like this and this? There are just as many of these from Israelis directed at Palestinians as there are from Hamas directed toward Jews. But you know the difference? Israel has the eleventh-most powerful military in the world and the most powerful in the Middle East; they have F16's and Apache helicopters and tanks and precision artillery and all the organisation and resources of a state. Hamas has...stones, and crude and inaccurate rockets. If you want to talk about which call for extermination is more worrying? It's the Israeli calls for extermination of Palestinians. Because guess who's in a better position to actually carry it out? (Hint: it's not Hamas.)

[m-lekktor]

5. "MEMRI is a propaganda machine for the most extreme wing of the political spectrum"

and it's co founder and president spent 20 years in the MOSSAD. could you pick a more fucked up right wing source?

[4now]

6. And Israel really is exterminating Palestinian civilians

Makes you wonder.