The Seattle Times last month published a delirious editorial that both misreported and misinterpreted an unprecedented interview in the Israeli press by four retired Shin Bet chiefs. Among other things, the Times was wet with excitement that the retired security chiefs called for dealing with Arafat, opposed the security fence and called for an end to the assassination of terrorists. (That the retired officials didn't exactly say what the Times reported, and that the interview was greeted in Israel by a collective shrug of disinterest are besides the point).
In today's Ha'aretz is a report on an equally rare speech by a current Shin Bet chief, Avi Dichter. Dichter praises the separation fence as "critical" to Israel's security, condemns Arafat as having:
betrayed the trust placed in him by Israel and other nations, both during the years of the Oslo process and the last three years of conflict.and calls Iran the "No. 1 terror state in the world".
I wouldn't bet on the Seattle Times to report on Avi Dichter's remarks with the same enthusiasm that it devoted to the misreported words of Dichter's predecessors.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at December 16, 2003 01:06 PMI am convinced that only Jew hating Nazi loving anti Semites are opposed to the security fence. That fence although not yet totally completed has already paid for itself in scores of Jewish lives saved, particularly in the seam area opposite Jenin and Kalkilyah. Finish it already!!!!
Posted by: Joel on December 16, 2003 05:40 PMIt's been two days. Have they reported on it yet? At all?
Posted by: Terry Notus on December 18, 2003 02:28 PMYeah, and I'm waiting (not really, I probably won't live that long) for the PI and Times reaction to Shaul Mofaz's radio appearance in which he handled callers to the Israeli Parsi broadcast from Iran asking for Israeli help in freeing them from the mullahs and appearing to believe that Israel will inevitably take out the Iranian nuclear facility! Looks like quite a few Iranians are more pro-Israel than is the PI or Times.
Posted by: Wilinsky on December 19, 2003 01:57 PMI receive a magazine from Redmond,Washington called Media Spotlight. Their was coverage in a previous publication called"Israeli policies condemned by ex-security heads's". He publisher states christians seldom hear anything negative about Israel for two reasons.l/most christian leaders believe God is on Israels side.2/Our US government supports Israel virtually unequivocally,particularly since that nation is seen as our primary ally in the middle east. On the first count,we must recognize that Israel is a godless Zionist state. It is not Israel of faith. Christians are persecuted by Israelis under a turn a blind eye policy.
Posted by: Terry Senum on April 20, 2004 01:01 PM