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Ok so I decided to start looking for these 'broad news stories' regarding Jews in Judea & Samaria. I typed "West Bank Jews" into their search engine and came up with a story entitled "Legality of Settlements Debated."

I guess I was wrong, they have done interviews with 'settlers,' and I'm sure all of them have been this sincere and honest, and the reporter was interviewing them without any bias at all.

Take this for example: In an an interview with Aviva Winter, they like to use the word 'claimed' a lot. Like:

"Winter claims settlers have a Biblical right to the land."

"Israel claims it respects ownership rights in the West Bank," says Dror Etkes, the Settlement Watch Coordinator for Israel Peace Now.

And my favorite paragraph:

Asked if she thinks the 2.4 million Palestinians currently living in the West Bank are in "the right place," the Tacoma, Wash.,-born Winter claims, erroneously, that most Palestinians were brought into the West Bank during Jordanian rule in the 1950s.

I like how they stick that word "erroneously" in there.
Erroneously: in a mistaken manner; "he mistakenly believed it"

Oh, it's unfortunate how mistaken she is. Where is the proof that she's wrong? There is none on the broadcast, they just claim that she's mistaken.

One tactic that they do, and Christiane Amanpour did this on her program God's Warriors, makes any religious statement that a Jew makes, and uses it to portray them as religious fanatics.

Winter says it's natural that everyone knows they have their own land to which they belong.

"The Arabs have 21 lands where they belong to," she says. "I think that's the way God created the world, every nation has his own right place to live, and if you're not in your right place then there is a lot of problems."

Asked if she thinks the 2.4 million Palestinians currently living in the West Bank are in "the right place," the Tacoma, Wash.,-born Winter claims, erroneously, that most Palestinians were brought into the West Bank during Jordanian rule in the 1950s.

Lets look at this statement, Winter says everyone should have their own land, and she says that the Arabs already ave 21 countries (saying why do they want Israel? For the sole purpose of driving the Jews off of it, because they know that the land belongs to them). Then a statement by NPR that points out that Winter was born in Washington State, not Israel.

Well duh, when a people is displaced from their land, they're not going to have been born there. And the claim that we weren't there is baloney, the Arabs wouldn't be bulldozing Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount if it didn't prove that there had been a Temple there. Just in the past week new archaeological findings have pointed to previous Jewish settlement in Israel.
They're also wrong in claiming that Jews started to come to Israel starting in the mid- 1800's. There is historical documentation of Jews that have been (the point of a weekly series in the Hamodia) (and particularly Chassidim in the 1700's) coming to Israel from the Diaspora going back to the 1200's and farther.

NPR you are biased, and the only way I am going to think otherwise is if you can do a program, do ONE that talks about the Jews right to Israel. Not an hour long program where you look at one side of the issue and conclude the Jews were never there, a program where religious Jews give their side, which is not treated as a joke, of why the land is important to them, and proof, that we were the first occupiers of the land.

On another issue, I've been finding it very funny whenever I hear the word 'Palestinian.' I mentioned what that word means in Biblical Hebrew: "Occupier."

These Arabs, and the media that laps up everything the Arabs say, are really stupid.