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dmb

Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Cleopatra wrote: |
Actually, it was on BBC World. |
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Cleopatra

Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 3657 Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Not quite sure what you're getting at, DMB. Are you implying - for reasons best known to yourself - that I automatically believe everything on BBC World?
As regards the particular piece of information I heard from the BBC, while it seems perfectly plausible, I am happy to be corrected if it is in incorrect. Right now, however I have no reason to believe it is in fact incorrect.
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dmb

Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:20 am Post subject: |
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The BBC has a good reputation around the world. I watch it for news. But it isn't always totally fact. The BBC is also guilty of beefing up stories. THe reason I say this is because I've been living in countries when there has been news stories that were simply not true. For example, when Gulf war 2 started I was based in Qatar along with the world's media. I remember a reporter on BBC saying that people on the streets of Doha were very frightened. Not true. Most people I knew really didn't take any notice.ş |
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Gordon

Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:50 am Post subject: |
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One problem I have with BBC is they're so anti-Israel, otherwise they're quite good. I understand it is impossible to be unbiased about it, and they have taken their side. |
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ImanH

Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 214 Location: Istanbul
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting you should say that Gordon, since a study by Glasgow University suggested that the bias is in fact the other way.
BBC online covered the study themselves.
If you are interested, you can check it on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3829967.stm and it has a link to the study itself.
Of course it was a study of BBC One (as well as ITV) so possibly BBC World might be different. However, from what I've seen of the BBC when I'm at home and abroad, they tend to use the same broadcasts. |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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I would definitely agree with the study. Though BBC World is significantly less biased than the US TV news, it is still obviously slanted towards Israel.
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Cleopatra

Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 3657 Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Completely agree with the above posters.
The only way anyone other than a Likhudite could consider the BBC "biased" against Israel is if one considers US "news" coverage to be neutral regarding the conflict. I suppose "bias" is in the eye of the beholder and what seems 'biased" to one viewer might seem scrupulously objective to another.
Personally, I would be worried about any news outlet which did NOT incur the wrath of the various Israelis embassies, well-known for phoning TV stations to "recommend" that they cover certain stories and getting their collective k n i c k e r s in a twist when said TV stations prefer to retain their jounalistic independence. |
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Tomgoldman
Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 8
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:12 am Post subject: Re: Jewish in the Middle East |
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[quote="Nostradamus"]Howdy!
I was wondering if being Jewish would prevent me from getting a teaching position in the Middle East (ie not Israel) ?
Well, half - jewish at least ....
Thanks
Nostradamus[/quote/]
Relax. I worked with Jewish colleagues in Kuwait. They did not advertise being Jewish, but for some strange reason most of the students knew. They still treated them well. I have other Jewish friends who have even been in Iran, Syria and Jordan recently.
My advice is to act normal, don't advertise and be humble. You should be fine once you get used to being there.
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Mikhai
Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 50 Location: South Korea
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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FYI Syria does not allow people who has been or they suspect will go to Israel into their country, not Egypt. I think it is also the same for Lebanon however I am not certain about Lebanon. |
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scot47

Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: passport |
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Make sure there are no stamps from the "Zionist Entity" in your passport and you will get into Syria - and other Arab states. |
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SandyM

Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 114 Location: Here, there, and everywhere...
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Being jewish and working in the ME is not such a great problem. But being Israeli is.
It would not go down too well with your students, especially when you start boasting about how many Palestinians you and your 'ancestors' have incinerated, how much land you have stolen from them, and how your system of economic and religious apartheid keeps them in poverty.
But you might like to try.
Please let us know how you get on!
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guangho

Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 476 Location: in transit
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:44 am Post subject: |
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I gather that my IDF Air Force cap wouldn't fly over there. But otherwise once I get a Master's (someday...) and assuming the place calms down just a little bit I may give it a shot. So to speak. |
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Stephen Jones
Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yes of course Sandy. Your post was so subtle that if you hadn't put it in bold we might have missed the point. |
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middleeast_not
Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: cannot understand westerners |
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I cannot understand Westerners. They live the easy good life of rich north to come here and live in this uncivilized lifestyle. They have been brainwashed by marketing or the sun. Try coming here to Bahrain and live. Like the people here, trying to scrape a living on poor salaries under horrible heat. It is not picnic. |
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globalnomad2

Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:18 am Post subject: Jews |
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At Dubai Women's College, the students started sending us hate mail and accusing us all of being "Jews" during the outset of the latest Intifada a few years ago. Not just our students, but the local press did it too!
When I was very young and naive, first job offer out of the Navy was for a radio operator in Saudi. Silly naive me, I put down the religion I was born in, Baha'i, although I don't really care about religion, on the required Religion question and the Saudi consular officer in Washington lectured me: "I don't why you got involved with this silly religion," he said, and denied my visa.
Can you imagine the religious arrogance of a foreign service officer--and a nation--coming to a free country with an attitude like that?
I don't mean the ME is all bad. I enjoyed Dubai a lot. I put down "Christian" on forms. Whatever.
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