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Originally Posted by timj219
"Disclosed?" By whom? Moon? Who claims it is "virtually" controlled. When you've been here longer you will realize Moon is a one subject troll.
The article makes no such claim. The closest the article will come to such an accuswation is to point out some of the staff once worked for israeli intelligence. Big mystery there, right? That an israeli capable of translating arab and pharsee would have been assigned to military intelligence while doing his national service?
The fact is that Memri produces accurate translations of official arab government newspapers and official arab government tv shows. These articles are not from fringe group nutcase newspapers and television. The fact is the arab governments do not dispute the contents of the memri translations. The fact is that if israeli media contained anything even remotely like these tv shows we've been discussing, moon and frank and bart would be posting them here every day. So far I've seen nothing. Have you?
The article was published in the western world's most strident "mainstream" anti israel newspaper. Moon quotes from the guardian on a daily basis because they always provide quotes he can use in his campaign. And the article says the translations are accurate. If Israel's most vocal western opponent says the translations are accurate how can it simultaeneously be "compromised"? That just makes no sense to me.
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There are lots of sources accusing MEMRI of their bias.
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What is happening is that MEMRI is cherry-picking a couple of statements on fringe websites to support its own, highly partisan, interpretation. Actually, to be totally clear, they are relying on ONE statement on ONE radical website, which could have been posted by ANYBODY. This is not an authoritative interpretation, nor one which has been accepted anywhere in mainstream Arab or Islamist debates which I have yet seen.
This is what MEMRI always does: not mis-translate, but choose selectively among a wide range of sources to find those which support their agenda - and leave non-Arabic speakers with a highly distorted picture of reality. This is a classic case. Don't be fooled.
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Abu Aardvark: MEMRI's disgusting partisanship
MEMRI Watch
Amongst other.
Now you can dismiss all of these links as being left wing or jihadist. But it would be wiser to accept the fact that MEMRI isn't totally what it seems.
Again, I'm not implying that MEMRI's translation of the Syrian TV series is wrong, just telling you to watch them with a critical eye.
Btw, if their true goal would be to improve understanding between the different cultures, wouldn't it be fair of them to also mention the subject of the thread? So far, no word. Maybe they don't like positive news coming out of Iran?
MEMRI: Iran