The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel. I am not alone in this unease.

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London, Monday August 12, 2002

Go to this link for the missing article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html

David Irving comments: THESE are standard propaganda techniques first developed by the Nazi propaganda minister Dr Joseph Goebbels. I have drawn attention on earlier occasions to the manner in which both George Bush and his advisers and the Israelis -- as if any meaningful distinction can be drawn between them -- have drawn on the Goebbels lesson books.

Selective Memri

Brian Whitaker investigates whether the 'independent' media institute that translates the Arabic newspapers is quite what it seems