BACKGROUNDER: A Study in Palestinian Duplicity and Media Indifference
Palestinian spokesmen Nabil Sha'ath, Hassan Abdel Rahman, Yasser Abed Rabbo, Ahmed Abdel Rahman and Saeb Erakat took the Western media for a ride in April 2002, loudly proclaiming Israel had committed a "massacre" in Jenin. Yet, despite copious evidence of their blatant lying, the credibility of these spokesmen with the American press is apparently unaffected.