The road map is not a long or difficult document, yet some in the media have an astonishingly hard time keeping its basics straight. Key written provisos, prepared by an international "quartet" of the E.U., UN, Russia and the US, are regularly cast as irritating "demands" laid down by Israel.
“A stand for freedom” read the headline of a recent New Jersey Star Ledger editorial (July 20) commending New Jersey Governor McGreevey for allowing an upcoming pro-Palestinian conference at Rutgers University devoted to divestment from Israel. The event will also “celebrate Palestinian resistance.”
The Associated Press (AP) has adopted the word “militia” to refer to Palestinian terrorist groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Not only are Hamas and Islamic Jihad on both the U.S. and U.N. list of international terrorist organizations, but all three share a platform of targeting and killing civilians.
In their evening broadcasts of June 22, ABC and NBC reported as fact that Israel killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the fact that the circumstances surrounding their deaths were disputed.
In "Attacks persist in Iraq; clerics rail against Americans" (June 20), Associate Press reporter Tarek Al-Issawi seriously misleads readers as to the nature of the exodus of Iraqi Jewry before and after the founding of the state of Israel.
The Associated Press wire service sent out an outrageously distorted headline today concerning yesterday's Arab terror attack against Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv. It says: "Bomb Mars Historic Day for Palestinians."
To Associated Press reporter Hassan Fattah for his Feb. 25 tribute to terrorist Abdallah al-Saba entitled "Islamic Jihad leader killed in house demolition hailed as hero."
THUMBS DOWN to AP's Jamal Halaby for including unsubstantiated claims and inaccurate terminology reflecting a partisan perspective in an obituary of former Jordanian army commander Mashour Haditha al-Jazy.