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"60 Minutes" decided to pull back the curtain on a charged confrontation it had with the government of Israel over a story it reported about Arab Christians in the country.

"We didn't realize it would become so controversial," Bob Simon, the reporter for the story, said on the show's Sunday broadcast.

The main thrust of the piece was that Palestinian Christians had become, in Simon's words, "the invisible people, squeezed between a growing Muslim majority and burgeoning Israeli settlements." The report showed a family of Palestinians boxed in on almost all sides by the wall the Israelis have built in the West Bank, and said that many are fleeing the country.

The story drew so much ire from the Israeli government that its ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, contacted CBS News chief Jeff Fager before the story even aired.

Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/2 ... 46297.html

Israel is very touchy as how is it protrayed and with quite some success till now it has managed to manipulate its image in the western media. This story is just one of those facets as to how it goes on trying to do that.

--- Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:38 am ---

Although a big Sci Fi fan, I don't get the excessive geekyness of trekkies.

(DDS, was the Start Trek comment for the sci-fi apartment thread in tech talk?)

Here's a piece on this story on Loonwatch, including a CBS video on the ambassador's intervention:

http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/04/bob-si ... hael-oren/

Here's a link to the video on the CBS site (on the intervention):
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= ... contentAux

And here's the 60 min programme that all the fuss was about:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7406228n


(And DDS, it 'trekkers' not 'trekkies' - at least that is what trekkers say.. )
Cheers,

Shafique

Most common form used is Trekkie but trekkers is also correct

^ Live long and prosper!

Cheers,

Shafique

i dont like what they are doing to these people,much more the same way they are doing to the palestinians. i know they have the right to defend themselves but they are abusing their authority.