Question. Does The Washington Post Even Read The Washington Post? - by Sean Durns

...The Post, which had quoted Abu Jihad (aka Mahmoud al-Aloul) in previous articles, apparently declined to report his political advancement. Like basic journalistic standards, Abu Jihad has gone missing from the paper’s pages — depending, perhaps, on the day one reads them.

Sean Durns..
Algemeiner.com..
18 October '17..

An old adage, often attributed to Mark Twain, states that the “truth is stranger than fiction — because we don’t meet it as often.” But readers of The Washington Post might wish for more facts — and less fiction.

When it comes to coverage of Israel, the Post seems increasingly unable to discern the difference between truth and fantasy. In fact, the paper even contradicts its own reporting in order to advance a false narrative.

Take, for instance, the issue of “settlements.”

The Post has featured inordinate coverage of Jewish homes in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), filing dozens of dispatches on this topic from 2015-17 — often at the expense of fully covering Palestinian political affairs.

For example, an October 6, 2017, article by Ishaan Tharoor claimed that “Israeli settlers continue to expand across the West Bank” and that “negotiations” between Israelis and Palestinians only give “settlers more time to build settlements.” But settlements are not expanding beyond existing boundaries. Most of the population growth there is the result of natural increase — not from new arrivals.

And to find out as much, The Washington Post could have just read — The Washington Post.

A March 31, 2017 Post report, for example, was entitled “Israel set to approve first new settlement in 20 years.” That hardly squares with a description of “Israeli settlers continuing to expand across the West Bank…” in Tharoor’s October 6 piece.

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