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Old July 13th, 2007 #1
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Keeping Talk Radio Pro-Israel
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Friday, July 13, 2007 --
Three years after Air America first came on the air, intended to be a leftist voice in the mostly conservative world of talk radio only to go bankrupt as ratings sank, it has been newly “relaunched” under former Democratic politician Mark Green on 64 stations (1600 AM, WWRL in New York).

Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, the leading industry publication for talk radio, told the Cybercast News Service that Air America Radio is “heading in the right direction ... You have to look at Air America in context. Too many people have said, ‘Look, it’s liberal. It failed,’ as if that’s why. The fact that they’re liberal or progressive is irrelevant to me. It has to do with talent and a good business plan.”

But whether talk radio, be it left or right, is fair to Israel, is, in fact, very important to Harrison. For the past five years, Harrison and his publication have been shepherding more than 50 talk show hosts to Israel in conjunction with America’s Voices for Israel (AVI), a group founded and presided over by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Harrison, a member of AVI’s board of directors, recently devoted an entire glossy front page of Talkers to these Israel trips. And on one trip, several weeks ago, conducted in conjunction with United Jewish Communities, among the radio personalities traveling with Harrison was Lionel, the uni-monikered host newly hired as Air America’s 9 a.m. mid-morning slot.

Among the places in Israel where Harrison’s group ventured was Sderot, the daily target of Hamas’ rocket war against Israel. Unless the rockets stop, and Hamas says they won’t, it will be intriguing to hear how this will play out on Lionel’s show and elsewhere on Air America, considering that Sderot has not been on the leftist agenda until now, not even the Jewish leftist agenda. For example, the much-publicized Rabbis for Human Rights conference in December denounced Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes but did not even mention the rocketed demolition of Jewish homes in Sderot by Palestinian rockets, though by even last December hundreds of rockets had landed in Sderot, killing several and wounding many.

Also, the recently launched Middle East Bulletin, the thrice-weekly online news site—intended as a leftist option to the Daily Alert, the online news site e-mailed each morning by the Conference of Presidents—has almost entirely ignored Sderot, as well.

Since the Middle East Bulletin was launched May 7 — in conjunction with Americans for Peace Now, the Geneva Initiative, Israel Policy Forum, and New Israel Fund — Sderot has been mentioned only twice, once when “Israeli planes hit Hamas targets” (May 18), and once when “Southern Israeli residents protest government response to rocket fire” (May 21). By contrast, the Daily Alert has been mentioning the rocket attacks on Sderot well over a hundred times, just about every day since the rocketing began.

The Talkers-AVI group was not only taken to Israel’s medical and science facilities, as well as cultural showcases, but to “the areas under siege,” said Harrison, and Lionel was photographed with one of the Qassam rockets that have panicked Sderot. The experience seemed to have an impact on Air America’s new host, as Lionel told Harrison that he recognized that Israelis “live with the real and palpable specter of imminent war at a moment’s notice.”

Unlike those in Air America’s constituency who have severely criticized Israel as an “apartheid” state, Lionel added, “Israel is a testament as to how a people disparate in religion, culture, history and language somehow coalesce and coexist in a seemingly unfathomable harmony.” :krofl

Before he shifted to Air America from WOR, Lionel had the 13th-ranked talk show in the country. According to recent Arbitron ratings, the top five talk show hosts are each staunchly on the right and supportive of Israel’s conservative flank: Rush Limbaugh (13.5 million weekly listeners); Sean Hannity (12.5); Michael Savage :[] (8.25); "Dr." Laura Schlesinger :[](8); and Laura Ingraham (5).

If some are perplexed about the Zionist-tilt on talk radio in defiance of what is found elsewhere in the media, perhaps some credit belongs to the persistence of Harrison, Hoenlein and the ongoing educational efforts of their America’s Voices for Israel.

America’s Voices is chaired by George Rohr, one of the major philanthropists behind international Chabad, and vice chaired by Howard Jonas, another major Jewish philanthropist who also chairs Yeshivat Chovivei Torah, the rabbinical school founded by Rabbi Avi Weiss.

Not long after the Rabbis for Human Rights conference, Rabbi Weiss, from his pulpit at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, denounced the leftist group for protesting the Israeli destruction of Palestinian-owned olive trees and the conditions under which alleged terrorists are being held while totally ignoring Sderot and the Israeli soldiers being held captive without even the Red Cross visitations afforded prisoners at the oft-criticized Guantanamo.
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Old July 13th, 2007 #2
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The other day I heard the local mainstream DJs laughing and boasting:

Zionist DJ #1: "they picked the wrong guys to mess with. You don't mess with the ISRAELIS!"

ZOG DJ #2: "And if you do mess with the Israelis, somebody's going to get killed. It doesn't matter if they get the right guy or not, somebody's going to die! Hardy har har!"
 
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