A couple of decades ago, I petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate a television network whose news reporting violated fair reporting standards. The FCC answered with a note that said, except for excessive profanity or pornographic programming, the Commission did not have authority to regulate television content. Its duties were limited to regulating the airwaves, ensuring transmission licenses were in order and transmissions did not violate technical rules and obligations. My readings of their duties and responsibilities supported their reply — they were a technical organization, in charge of setting broadcasting standards, issuing licenses, and ensuring the airwaves were properly attended.
Present FCC activities by the FCC contradict their charter. Recently, the agency ordered eight television stations owned by ABC and its parent company to submit renewal applications for their broadcast licenses years ahead of schedule. Presenting the order immediately after Trump ridiculed ABC and NBC for not broadcasting a speech he made and after he called for revocation of their licenses cannot be a coincidence.
Maintaining political content that is objective, fair, and credible on the public airwaves is a challenge. In the “double whammy” era of mendacious Trump and devious Zionism, it is a gut-wrenching challenge. News outlets broadcast Trump’s lies as statements, and rarely attach retaliatory comments that question the statements. Need to wait for a discussion program on the subject or go to CNN and learn the statements are false. This type of obvious treachery usually has its day of reckoning; not so with the insertions of sly and devious commentary that delude our senses and shape our minds. The artful mechanism of deceiving the public is a salient reason for the existence of genocidal Israel. Recognizing and combatting the harmless and sinister propaganda from those who favor Israel requires alertness and strategy. This is number one priority, and has not been given the needed attention. Here are two examples.
The controversial CBS program, 60 Minutes, increased its controversial nature by featuring an episode titled Lost Sheep ─ reporting on West Bank settler violence. Purportedly showing aspects of settler violence, supported by the Israeli government, the report contains commentary and images that tend to rationalize the violence and steer the viewer into alternative thinking. It starts with Lesley Stahl’s introduction to the program.
Israel has been at war with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza, ever since the massacre of October 7, but there’s another increasingly volatile battleground: the West Bank, which has been under Israeli military occupation for six decades.
Note the attachment of the unnecessary and disputable word ‘terrorist’ to Hamas, followed by subtly equating Oct. 7 with “another increasingly volatile battleground: the West Bank.”
Ms. Stahl follows her sly introduction with another deceptive display of words.
This is a biblical story: you have two populations – Jewish and Arab; the descendants of Abraham’s sons: Isaac and Ishmael fighting over ancestral lands. But with all of today’s high tech warcraft – AI, drones, supersonic missiles – the weapons they’re using here are sticks and stones and sheep!
Is this a proper description of the Israeli atrocities committed upon the Palestinians in the West Bank — a biblical story, with two populations fighting over ancestral lands, and using sticks and stones and sheep as weapons? Sounds like a harmless and proportionate dispute between parties who have equal grievances.
We learn that “Some 200 sheep farms have popped up in recent years, changing something fundamental: for decades Jewish settlers have put up fences to protect themselves from the active threat of Palestinian terrorism; now it’s the Palestinians who are penning themselves in.”
Change “the active threat of Palestinian terrorism; now it’s the Palestinians who are penning themselves in” to “the provoked threat of Palestinian terrorism, and the decades of Israeli terrorism that continues to pen in the Palestinians.”
The reporter does not ask fundamental questions that could explain the issue.
(1) Why is there a sudden abundance of sheep farms in an area where the farms will create disputes?
(2) Mr. or Ms., for how long have you been sheep farming?
(3) Who built the sheep pens and the housing? Was it the government?
(4) Who supplied the sheep? Was it the government?
The “sheepherder,” Mordehai Minster, originally from Brooklyn, New York, the sheep herding capital of the United States (black sheep, that is), started a GoFundMe fundraiser so he could leave Brooklyn and live on a West Bank hilltop. Only a few Americans have subscribed to the venture ─ $2,136 raised of $70K. Again, from where did the money, equipment, and sheep come from to create the bustling farm? Mordehai Minster, originally from Brooklyn, New York, described in the fundraiser the real reason he wants to be a sheep farmer.
We urgently need funds to grow and maintain our flock of sheep and thus have a larger footprint in the area, The flocks are what secures the borders. The more sheep we have, the farther out in the wilderness we can graze, additional sheep translates into wider borders, you can affect the future borders of Israel today by contributing to our flock.
The “sheep herder” continued pulling wool over our eyes.
When you have sheep, everyone understands. Arabs tend to fight over grazing lands among themselves. It’s a language that we understand, and they understand. And it’s a way to delineate the border. This is where I graze my sheep. You don’t take your sheep here. You don’t plant here. You don’t build here.
Whenever you have ethnic religious communities, especially in the Middle East, fighting over land and resources, that conflict sometimes gets ugly. The fact that violence exists doesn’t change the merit of the right that we have to this land.
No contention from the 60 Minutes reporter to these rabid statements. Are there any Middle East scholars who know of “Arabs tending to fight over grazing lands,” and, except for Jews, “ethnic religious communities in the Middle East, fighting over land and resources,” or can explain the incomprehensible statement, “The fact that violence exists doesn’t change the merit of the right that we have to this land?” The latter is better phrased as, “The fact that we commit violence to steal the land merits our right to the land.”
Ms. Stahl hurled these statements at the audience.
The violence is often carried out by these young shepherds known as “Hilltop Youth,” who have flocked here for a sense of adventure, told they’re on a God-given mission to redeem the land.
So they routinely storm Palestinian fields and villages, harassing farmers and livestock, cutting olive trees — over 1,600 incidents so far this year. They’ve torched cars and destroyed property: there’s a hardcore of up to 500 of them. Up to a thousand more drift in and out.
She confronted the Brooklyn sheep farmer with simple questions. “How did they get here? Who are they? Mordehai responded with another unbelievable comment.
Those are kids that are ranging age between, I don’t know, 15 and 25. They don’t do great in school. They don’t get into the army that easily ‘cause maybe behavioral problems. So some of them end up in places like this, taking care of sheep, doing construction. Some of these kids may have drug problems. They smoke pot. They grow pot.
Would any community welcome a bunch of “potheads who make trouble?” Would any government permit them to exist in gangs? These are paid performers, bussed into the area to commit violent acts.
Mordehai Minster would not classify the violent acts as terrorism. He offered a milder view. There are some children (25 years of age) who overreact and act in thuggish ways and need to be controlled and held in? Yeah, definitely.”
Leslie Stahl walked down the hill to talk with the legitimate shepherd, Hassan, who was being denied access to his family’s house. With the stage set and CBS cameras in place, the so-called Hilltop Youth, dressed in their designer black hoodies, came running down the hill, and for no discernible reason. The script read — do not carry weapons or engage in extreme violence; just behave as juvenile delinquents. They used their bodies to block Hassan from walking to his house, shoving and ramming Hassan, who politely kept his hands behind his back so he could not be accused of hitting anyone.
This exercise of “kid play” was interrupted by an Israeli army captain (or an actor dressed as an Israeli army captain), who suddenly turned up out of nowhere. He sent the “youth” back up the hill and told everyone else “to clear out.” End of scene.
The 60 Minutes report included references to severe settler violence. An objective report would have the violence prominent and not have it mitigated by staged scenes of relatively harmless activity and conversations that rationalized its appearance.
More subtle and with indirect relation to Israel’s oppression occurred with an episode from a previously revealed conspirator to the genocide, Finding My Roots, the PBS series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. A show that featured Norman Lear and originally premiered on January 26, 2016, was recently rebroadcast on October 6, 2026.
Producer and scriptwriter of popular comedy shows, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Sanford and Son, learned that his father fought in World War I, enlisted at age 24 in 1917, and served in the 307th Field Signal Battalion. The official military report, uncovered by the show, stated that his detachment had “performed excellent service during the offensive under conditions of at times great danger.” I’m sure Norman Lear knew of his father’s military service, but the audience had to know that the charge that Jews who swear loyalty to Israel do not represent those who serve America. Is this a purpose or task of network television, to subtly represent a small population in their struggle in contending charges of dual loyalty? Who maneuvered the show’s producers into “uncovering” a report that said nothing particular concerning Norman Lear’s father?
Then, of course, we have the victimhood.
Gates surprised Lear with the revelation that Lear’s grandfather was born in the Pale of Russia, “an area where Jews lived in abject poverty and the children were not allowed an education.” Why are we told this? Why is the life of some unfortunate Jews relevant to the story of Solomon Lear, Norman’s grandfather? Then we are told that the 11-year-old Solomon was subjected to a pogrom in 1881. Louis Gates displayed a newspaper article that mentioned attacks on Jewish property (not Jewish people) in Russia. No information on who was Solomon Lear, his life, and his accomplishments, or any evidence that his family was personally involved in the riots, was poor, and he was never educated. The same amount of narrative is afforded Norman’s grandmother; she was born, endured pogroms, and immigrated to the United States. We learn from Norman that his grandparents were patriotic Americans and “tears came down my grandfather’s face when he saw the American flag flying.” Why is he telling us this? Was he prompted? Must have been; otherwise, why would the screen suddenly show a parade of soldiers carrying the American flag and a flag waving in the breeze when Norman Lear spoke of his grandfather’s tears?
Henry Gates proceeded to follow these tales of victimhood and love of America with the most endearing and mind-twisting statement, ”Their sacrifices helped to become what is America today.” Many ways to receive that bit of unnecessary praise.
Is Gates saying that Russian Jewish immigrants played a leading role in shaping 21st-century America, a bit of exaggeration, or is he agreeing with critics of Zionism, who claim the Zionists control America, or is he saying that Russian Jewish immigrants are responsible for the political, social, and economic decline of the United States?
Then came the clincher, depicting modern Jews as direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews, and, of course, attaching them to the biblical land. Henry Gates revealed that Norman Lear’s great-grandfather had a middle name of Halevi, which meant that Norman traces his ancestry to Levi, who was the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham. A beaming Gates let Norman and the audience know that “according to tradition, Norman is a direct descendant of the founder of Judaism.” A few problems with that statement.
- Abraham is not a historical person.
- The Old Testament considers him a patriarch, the father of all the tribes that became the Hebrews. If true, then all Hebrews are direct descendants of Abraham.
- Abraham is not the founder of Judaism. The religion known as Judaism started in the 2nd century B.C., after the Torah was available in written form.
- Is it believable that 300 years of recorded history faithfully reproduces 2700 years of unrecorded history?
Does not matter. The audience has been told, “Jews are direct descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel and are coupled to the ancient land of Israel.”
This excursion into covert deceit is not trivial. Without its influencers, and without the subtle mind-setting that steered the world to favor the Zionist adventure, Israel would not have inflicted the sorrow it now inflicts on all of us. Those engaged in the public relations and propaganda efforts that disguise the genocide are Israel’s more formidable troops. Mind-bending is Israel’s more potent weapon. Remaining alert and responding quickly to the pulverizing words and articulations are components of the battle in halting the genocide and preventing additional destruction of Middle East peoples.
Much has been previously written on the treachery of Finding Your Roots and Henry Louis Gates; to my chagrin, nothing has been done. The episodes, its conductor, and other PBS programs continue to be infiltrated with the Zionist faithful who continue their mission of gaining sympathy for the Zionist cause.
Having dedicated Israelites own a public network harbors rule from Tel Aviv. This is a cautionary tale, where money interests clash with political interests. How many viewers and how much money is the Ellison family willing to lose to promote Israel? The Spanish word “ojo,” keep a watchful eye on the situation, tells us what to do.
Vigilance against corruption has been insufficient. An urgency exists to gracefully disgrace those who corrupt our minds. In the battle with genocidal Israel, protests and demonstrations against those who violate public trust are almost as important as the demonstrations against those who violate the sanctity of life.