Sunday, March 06, 2005

Don't They Read Their Own Newspapers

Mahmoud Abbas is quoted by AP (which I found on the web site of the New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Palestinians.html
as saying that he cannot assure Israel the security it expects. His exact words: "Nobody can say we hold responsibility for the situation because we do not have a presence in the cities,''.

But that is patently untrue.

All the world's media, electronic and print, have published in the last weeks
dozens of photographs displaying Palestinian Authority personnel walking the
streets of their cities, armed and in uniform.

Will the media take the step of proving him wrong or allow his statement to mislead the public?

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