Probably unwittingly, ‘Times’ identifies West Bank settlement as part of Israel

by on April 18, 2009 8

In a March 29 on-line dialogue with foreign editor Susan Chira, the Times published a letter from Yisrael Medad complaining about coverage of the settlements, and gave his dateline as Shiloh, Israel. Shiloh is a settlement in the Occupied Territories. Medad, who moved to Palestine after immigrating to Israel from the U.S., calls himself the unofficial spokesman for the settlements. Chira largely ducked the Arab/Israeli coverage question, which she got from many readers, saying it was above her pay grade, her bosses had already made the authoritative statements about it.

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  1. Chris Berel says:
    April 18, 2009 at 7:45 am

    "Medad, who moved to Palestine after immigrating to Israel from the U.S.," ???

    There is no Palestine to move to. Perhaps Medad moved to the palestinian nation of Jordan?

  2. Citizen says:
    April 18, 2009 at 8:18 am

    No. The land he moved to is part of the 20% left over from the former whole Mandate of Palestine.
    England unilaterally gave the non-Palestinian people of Jordan their present home (a sort of Balfour declaration in weak keeping with promises made by Britain in lieu of the vast pan-arab state originally to be given as thanks for Arab help in fighting WW1), the balance of
    the Mandate land to be divided between Jews and native Palestinian arabs.

    42% of the current population of Jordan is Palestinian in origin; terrified by Jewish terrorists under color of law, they fled the former Mandate of Palestine in the wake of the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars. They are refugees.

  3. Citizen says:
    April 18, 2009 at 8:24 am

    Most of the refugees ( at least officially ) have equal civil rights as Jordanian citizens.
    However, Jordanian citizenship has not cancelled the Palestinian right of return or their
    status as refugees.

  4. Susie Kneedler says:
    April 18, 2009 at 10:19 am

    MSNBC has also run ads for tourism in "Israel" that include the Occupied Territories.

  5. ReadersQuerys says:
    April 18, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    I hate to ask this, but it has turned out to be important in the past: Does anyone know whether Susan Chira is Jewish?

  6. Florida goy says:
    April 18, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    A good question. Jews often point to those they consider anti-semitic because they focus on the disproportionate number of Jews engaged on the topical issue, while simultaneously doing exactly the same thing. Have you ever known a Jew who didn't know who was not a MOT, and who was?
    Go sports bar goys!

  7. Chris Berel says:
    April 19, 2009 at 10:05 am

    I see citz is still spreading lies and trying to convince people it is history.

    Jordan is a palestinian nation. Well over 50% of it's citizens are palestinians. Its future King is a palestinian. Its ruling family were Saudi's (Before the country became saudi arabia).

    And there is no Palestinian right of return.

  8. Citizen says:
    April 19, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    I see Chris thinks no goys have ever mingled among mostly jews, and watched them point to every jew on the entertainment or news screen and ID each one as such, with much pride. He must live
    a really isolated life here in the USA. Jordan's Palestinian population is 42 % of Jordan's total population. While lip service is given by the Jordanian regime to equal rights, the facts dispute this.
    One thing nobody in Jordan disputes is that by being Jordanian citizens, no Palestinian gives up his or her right to return to their native homeland they were booted out of by Jews in 1948 & 1967. Jordan's law fully supports this right of return.

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