“At least nine national cable networks have turned down a potentially lucrative — though controversial — ad schedule from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. No national cable networks are known to have accepted the ads,” Electronic Media Online reports.

…Which didn’t prevent the aggressively “neutral” ABC pinheads from running the Saudi spots during this morning’s GMA.

ABC News is also running a “Nightline” advertising campaign trumpeting Ted Koppel as a Middle East “expert” (“Nightline” is broadcasting from Bethlehem and Jerusalem all this week). You can read a report filed by Kopel and Gillian Findlay here.

Note that the “Israel vs. the United Nations” section makes no mention of specific, on-the-record anti-Israeli rhetoric coming out of the UN contingent — leaving the indelible impression that the Israelis are blocking UN “fact finders” (“Quick, over here! It’s a tennis shoe with no foot in it! War Crime! War Crime!”) from entering Jenin because the IDF has something to hide.

For a non-ABC perspective on Israel’s reluctance to cooperate with U.N. “fact finders”, try this Jerusalem Post editorial, “Guilty Until Proven Guilty” [via LGF]

Now even Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch — two organizations that could hardly be more vitriolic toward Israel — admit that there was no massacre. The charge, according to Amnesty secretary-general Irene Kahn after her visit to Jenin, has been reduced to ‘serious violations of international humanitarian law.’ But why should Israel subject itself even to slightly watered down form of diplomatic lynching? The evidence that the jury is in before the trial has begun lies in UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan