tomu, The material in your post was assembled by MEMRI.
This is what Wikipedia has to say about the bias of your source.
"Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom, has been one of the most outspoken critics of MEMRI, writing: "My problem with Memri is that it poses as a research institute when it's basically a propaganda operation,"[5] and that "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."[4] Whitaker has also complained that "MEMRI's website does not mention you [Carmon] or your work for Israeli intelligence. Nor does it mention MEMRI's co-founder, Meyrav Wurmser, and her extreme brand of Zionism.... Given your political background, it's legitimate to ask whether MEMRI is a trustworthy vehicle."[5] "Leila Hudson writes in the journal Middle East Policy, "MEMRI simultaneously highlights stories emphasizing the most extreme stereotypes of clashing Arab and Islamic civilization, which would not otherwise come to light. In effect, it amplifies the noise that most effectively distracts from the projects of engagement and negotiation. This is compounded by the interlinked series of websites, blogs and forums on the right wing of the think-tank periphery. Like the Israeli disinformation site Debka.com, MEMRI produces and amplifies noise, while buttressing the weak 'clash of civilizations' theory with selective extremist writing."[17] "Messaoud Saidani in the engineering department of Coventry University says that although MEMRI presents itself as Middle East Research Institute it does hardly translate any controversial articles that appear in the Israeli audio-visual media. It concerns itself with Arabic, Persian and Turkish translations but not Hebrew translations although most of its members are in fact Jewish. Not only that, but MEMRI selects bad apples from the Muslim world and blows them out of proportion to give a distorted impression of the Muslim and Arab worlds. Also, it claims to be a non-political non-partisan organisation, but almost all its founders had served in the IDF and the intelligence services.[citation needed] "Political scientist Norman Finkelstein has stated that MEMRI "uses the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis." "They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don’t like." He believes that "it’s a reliable assumption that anything MEMRI translates from the Middle East is going to be unreliable." [18]"
I suggest you take more care to assess the reliability of your sources tomu. You are linking to the product of an organisation that "uses the same sort of propaganda techniques as the Nazis."... "They take things out of context in order to do personal and political harm to people they don’t like." (See previous para for attribution.)
This is the last post I intend to make on this thread. The title was misleading from the start and is even less accurate now.
