Yes, still another false-moderation-of-Palestinian-leadership hoax

Barry Rubin
The Rubin Report
09 July '10

Doesn't the West ever learn?

Step 1: Al-Hayat reports that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas offers to give Israel the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem and the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple to Israel in a peace agreement.

Step 2: Media covers this extensively as great concession and proof that the Palestinian Authority wants peace.

Step 3: PA spokesman denies it.

And I happen to know for a fact that this story wasn't true.

Over and over and over and over and over again.

PA prime minister Salam Fayad says Jewish settlers welcome to stay in Palestinian state. This contradicted every statement the PA and its leaders ever made. Media coverage. Denial.

A lone Palestinian whom nobody knows claims Israel committed massacre in Jenin. Media goes wild though there's no proof. UN disproves allegation. (Some still believe it.)

PA parliament stages hoax, holding a session during broad daylight with curtains closed to "prove" Israel has shut off power. Shown to be false.

Multiple examples of altered photographs, false atrocity stories, etc.

Would it be beneficial if I listed a hundred such examples? Many of these are deliberately engineered, usually to claim falsely Israel has commited some crime, more rarely to exaggerate Arab or Palestinian moderation.

Remember that reporters demand daily that the Israeli government prove that it didn't do something or other. Either there's no time to look into the issue, meaning there is no denial or disproof, or a lot of effort is put into disproving the lies, which takes up the energy of a limited staff and, by the time an authoritative answer is documented, the media ignores it any way.

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