Friday, October 19, 2012

The Backward Forward

Found at The Forward's web site:

Israel Approves More Settlements Near Jerusalem

By Reuters

Published October 18, 2012.

Jerusalem — Israel on Thursday issued a detailed plan for the building of some 800 new homes on annexed land in the West Bank that is certain to attract further international condemnation of its settlement policies.



Really:


Well,

(a) those are houses being built, not "settlements";

(b) if you insist on the term "settlement", it's still but one "settlement" as even Ma'an notes;

(c)  but it isn't a "settlement", it's a neighborhood;

(d)  why isn't The Forward borrowing from Haaretz or the Jerusalem Post but from Reuters, a biased news agency? and background could have helped.

(e) and an independent voice (from the same Reuters correspondent) a year ago.

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