Jewish victory over Syrian oppression?

On the newscast this week, I heard a thin man who could well have been an actor instead of a newscaster mention lighting of candles celebration Jewish victory over 2200 years of Syrian oppression. As the words left his lips I turned to my boyfriend and asked him if this was a joke. It sounded like a joke. I mean it sounded like the Israeli media police had placed this puppet onto the newscast. It was terribly terribly biased. 2200 years implies that oppresion is still ensuing. Granted al Asad (both Bashad, the current ruler and Hafiz, his deceased father) are/were not know to be the most benevolent of rulers/dictators but still. The news is not supposed to be the voice of Israel, nor the US for that matter. It should be independent and without judgement. Objectivity is very rare in humans as they are usually unable to differentiate objective reality and subjectivity always is interjected with such words as large, small, warm, cold. All of those words are used in comparison to something else.

I believe the newscaster statement marked the beginning of channukeh but still, leave the politics out of the newscasts, please!