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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Incitement continues: Turkish TV depicts Israelis kidnapping Turkish babies


World leaders, including President Obama, have said a crucial component of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is for Palestinians to stop teaching hate and incitement.

Top Israeli officials voiced strong objections Monday (Jan. 11) to a Turkish TV program depicting Israelis kidnapping and hiding Turkish babies and attacking old men, as well as a scene showing the assassination of the Israeli ambassador.

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The culture of hate by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank has resurfaced as a significant problem. In recent months, senior officials in the PA, including President Mahmoud Abbas, have glorified terrorism by honoring Palestinians who have killed Israeli civilians. 



C-SPAN said a call-in host should have upbraided an anti-Semitic caller.

"Program hosts, whose role is to facilitate the dialogue between callers and guests, are certainly permitted to step in when a caller makes ad hominem attacks or uses obscenity or obviously racist language," a statement to JTA said. "Given that this involves quick judgment during a live television production, it's an imperfect process that didn't work as well as it should have that day."

The cable network, which covers the U.S. Congress, government hearings, think-tank sessions and news conferences in their entirety as a means of expanding government transparency, has been stung by criticism following a Jan. 4 broadcast of its "Washington Journal" call-in show...

 

via Solomonia.com    1/12/10