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06/15/2005: "Preview of Our New Right Wing NPR"

It’s been widely reported that the right wing has been making a run at NPR, both by trying to eliminate federal funding and by trying to pack it’s management ranks with right wing ideologues. They claim to want to bring “balance” to its reporting, but the “balance” they’re after is about as balanced as the balance that existed in Star Wars Episode III after the Jedi were massacred! Last summer I did some musing on what an NPR “balanced” to right wing specifications might sound like. It bears a replay.
MICHELE NORRIS, host: Talking about coddling terrorists, here’s something that’s just unbelievable. The liberal Israeli Supreme Court is forcing a change in Israel's project to build a security wall in the West Bank. Folks, we all know that the barrier an essential means of protecting Israelis against Palestinian suicide bombers. Today, the court ruled nearly 20 miles of the barrier must be rerouted to reduce “hardships” to the surrounding Palestinian population. Israel's Defense Ministry, caving to liberal carping, says it will comply with the ruling. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports. PETER KENYON reporting: The area at issue in this case is a 24-mile stretch of the barrier north and west of Jerusalem, amid Palestinian villages such as Beit Surik and Bidu. Eight villages sued the state over the barrier's route, and they were joined by residents of Israeli towns in the area as well. How can that be legal, Michele? I mean, they’re Palestinians, meaning terrorist sympathizers at the very least, and an Israeli court is listening to them? And what about those Israeli traitors? Mr. MOHAMMED DAHLE (Attorney): The Supreme Court basically accepted our arguments that if Israel wants to build a wall it can build a wall in a way that it does not infringe upon basic rights of Palestinians in an inproportionate manner. This decision is a precedent and it will have ramifications on all other petitions that are pending before the Supreme Court now. KENYON: Ladies and Gentlemen, now you know why Shakespeare said “first we kill all the lawyers.” We need to find out where he got that degree. Probably Baghdad. Anyway, today's ruling comes 10 days before the so-called “International Court of Justice” in The Hague is due to issue an opinion on the legality of the entire barrier. As if we didn’t know what that kangaroo court will say! Israel has already demonstrated its displeasure with the case, failing to appear for oral arguments. They know the score. It’s just another corrupt international organization like the UN. Freeze them out! A stack of further petitions against various other sections of the barrier is waiting in the wings. So the floodgates have opened! What a surprise, my friends! Peter Kenyon, NPR News, Jerusalem.