MK Avraham Hirschson has asked Communications Minister Ruby Rivlin to revoke CNN\'s license to broadcast from Israel. \"CNN has enlisted in the cause of Palestinian propaganda,\" Hirschson told Arutz-7 today. \"It is a tool in the hands of the [PA] because of various economic interests... It gives only one side of the coin, in a most aggressive manner...\" Asked for an example, the MK noted an incident this week in which CNN interviewed a woman who had lost her mother and baby daughter in a terrorist attack, yet edited out most of the interview and produced a show about the terrorist\'s mother instead. [See a full account of this incident below.] \"CNN is not only abusing the State of Israel, but also its citizens individually... Closing down CNN would be an important message that the citizens are important to the State.\"
Excerpts from an article by Amalia Argaman-Barnea in yesterday\'s Yediot Acharonot; translation by Israel Resource News Agency, Jerusalem:
The parents of the infant Sinai Keinan, who was murdered last week in the terror attack in Petah Tikva, were interviewed last week on CNN, and tearfully told the story of their loss. When they later viewed the program, they said they were alarmed to see that instead of their story, only the mother of the [murderous] terrorist ... appeared on the program.
... [The bereaved mother and daughter] Hen, who speaks English well... was asked to speak, in a live broadcast, to an American broadcast of the network, and among other things, she said: \"We love you. Help us as much as you can.\" [When she was later asked], \"How do you feel?\" she responded with a question: \"Do you have a mother? Do you have children? Close your eyes for a minute and imagine that they were murdered in front of your eyes. Only then will you know in what hell I live.\" ... all the members of the broadcast team shed tears.
\"That same evening\", related Hen painfully, \"we sat down to watch the special interview with us, and instead, to our amazement, we got only the interview with the mother of the terrorist who [murdered] my daughter and mother [who said] that before he left on his mission, she gave him her blessings... Only the day after, were portions of my interview broadcast, in another program, with my statements having been edited,\" related Hen last night... She said that the special interview with her was not even broadcast. She expressed anger about the \"unfair and unprofessional\" treatment by CNN. Hen said that she expects that in wake of this, the Israeli Foreign Ministry would remove foreign journalists from Israel, as they serve the Palestinian public relations goals. CNN had no comment to make.
Excerpts from an article by Amalia Argaman-Barnea in yesterday\'s Yediot Acharonot; translation by Israel Resource News Agency, Jerusalem:
The parents of the infant Sinai Keinan, who was murdered last week in the terror attack in Petah Tikva, were interviewed last week on CNN, and tearfully told the story of their loss. When they later viewed the program, they said they were alarmed to see that instead of their story, only the mother of the [murderous] terrorist ... appeared on the program.
... [The bereaved mother and daughter] Hen, who speaks English well... was asked to speak, in a live broadcast, to an American broadcast of the network, and among other things, she said: \"We love you. Help us as much as you can.\" [When she was later asked], \"How do you feel?\" she responded with a question: \"Do you have a mother? Do you have children? Close your eyes for a minute and imagine that they were murdered in front of your eyes. Only then will you know in what hell I live.\" ... all the members of the broadcast team shed tears.
\"That same evening\", related Hen painfully, \"we sat down to watch the special interview with us, and instead, to our amazement, we got only the interview with the mother of the terrorist who [murdered] my daughter and mother [who said] that before he left on his mission, she gave him her blessings... Only the day after, were portions of my interview broadcast, in another program, with my statements having been edited,\" related Hen last night... She said that the special interview with her was not even broadcast. She expressed anger about the \"unfair and unprofessional\" treatment by CNN. Hen said that she expects that in wake of this, the Israeli Foreign Ministry would remove foreign journalists from Israel, as they serve the Palestinian public relations goals. CNN had no comment to make.