Even in its obituaries, the Associated Press slants against Israel.  On September 1, 2016, the obituary of Israeli Benjamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer written by the Associated Press states innocently that "Mr. Ben-Eliezer ... was born in Basra, Iraq in 1946 and moved to Israel in 1950."  Moved?  According to an obituary in The Times of Israel, "[a]t age 12, with the founding of the State of Israel, Ben-Eliezer was forced to flee Iraq alone.  Traveling by foot with a group of Jews, he headed toward Tehran.  He described the journey in detail in 2011 on the Uvda TV program, saying he was beaten repeatedly along the way and rescued from a swamp without his shoes."  In Haaretz, "[w]hen Ben-Eliezer turned 12 and the persecution of Iraqi Jews increased, Fuad's father sent him to Israel to save him."* In other words, Ben-Eliezer fled for his life! The sanitized story omits one of the worst periods for the Jewish people, which...(Read Full Post)