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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    Israel Radio 07:00  6 Oct 96
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In a report that sounded as if it was not merely read but writtenby a dyslexic weekend sub for VOA, a new reporter soi-yclept benDolphin, who evidently has not been in the country long enough topronounce Hebron (HEE-bron) (nor Arabic, nor Spanish), seems tohave departed far enough from the stoically upbeat formulae onedepends upon before one's third cup of coffee, to give thebroadcast a pro-US and left-of-Sarid slant.

	I recall only the most conspicuous details:  "author DavidGrossman" was quoted as being embarassed that the residents ofHeebron had been confined to their homes while Jews werecelebrating (with no mention for foreign listeners that fororthodox Jews it is an obligation to celebrate during Sukkot,personal and national sorrows notwithstanding); and described aPiece Rally at Jeruslaem's Zion Square -- whose pedestrian area,the terminus of the Midrahov, is about the size of anexceptionally large traffic island --  as having occurred at thesame site where last year an anti-Piece-process rally displayed"a poster of Rabin in an SS uniform".  No mention that, as oflast spring, the media had concluded that this poster (actually ahandbill, shown to TV cameras) had been made and displayed by anagent provacateur (Raviv, as memory serves) working under theRabin Administration for the GSS; and that it was actually not aposter but a handbill, out of sight-lines from the speakersplatform and too small to catch the notice of the demonstrationorganizers (who disavowed knowlege, much less endorsement, of it),and displayed, apparently by deliberate if not prior arrangement,to the TV cameras.

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TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    USA Today International Edition Weather Map (eg 23 Sep 96)
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The West Bank is drawn as part of Jordan; the Golan is drawn aspart of Syria, and Gaza is drawn as part of Egypt.                                         
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    Berlitz Arabic Phrase Book:  Map 
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Israel simply ain't mapped nor mentioned.

This phrase book is copyright 1989, 1975 by the Berlitz PublishingCo. Ltd., Peterley Road, Oxford OX4 2TK, "United" Kingdom.;Revised editiion, 6th printing, 1995.  Distribued bySteinmatsky's.      

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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    VOA or U.S. Armed Forces Radio, 9/27/96 
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OBJECTIVE REPORTING:  Jim Lederman, despite a few hints from theanchorman, gave a very clear, candid explanation that theHasmonean Tunnel  does not encroach on nor go under Moslem holysites.

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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    CNN Headline News, on METV, 20:00 9/26/96
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Overall, the anti-Israel bias was too unsubtle to detail: standard one-sided anti-Israel human interest bathos.

A reporter from Ramallah said the "overwhelming majority offatalities were on the Palestinian side", and gave a heart-rendingaccount of mothers waiting anxiously to see if their sons would bethe next to be brought in.   As I recall, there was no coverage ofIDF casualties.

RESPONSE: 
	In fact, the ratio Palestinian/Israeli casualties seems tohave been much closer than in previous incidents, and there  areindications that a substantial preportion of Palestiniancasulaties may have been caused by Palestinian fire.

	DETAILS:  In JP 27 27 Sep 96: Jon Immanuel writes: 
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"In Ramallah...firing seemed to be at random. Police in smart unforms and gunmen in jeans and sneakers, possibly belongingto the Preventive Security Service, a home for former Fatahgunmen, knelt in the middle of crowds and fired towardhouises from which shots had been fired.  They suspected thatthe IDF had taken up positions in the town...But the shotswere more likley to have come from other Palestiniansshooting in the general direction of the checkpoints. Rooftop solar heaters, punctured by gunfire, unleashedgeysers of stemaing hot water into the sky.  There werereports that settlers were shooting from the hilltop villasaround the town, but when some of these gunment were hit,Palestinian ambulances raced up the hill to collect thecasualties."
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The Tunnel was said to be "under Temple Mount".  
	Wolf Blitzer, who surely should know better, said it was"under the Al Aksa Mosque". 
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ANALYSIS: 
Moshe Kohn points out (JP 4 Oct 96) that this misconceptionapparently rests on deliberate semantic falsification by thePalestinians, who during this crisis have referred to theentire Temple Mount as Al Aksa Mosque:
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"From a recent issue of AHS 
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[sic 'AHS'; but from context apparently AHW, AlHaram Weekly, Cairo's English-language weekly,"which also provides summaries of editorialopinions of the entire Egyptian press"] 
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we learn that the 'Palestinians' no longer call theTemple Compound 'Haram a-Sharif' (the Noble Sanctuary)but 'Al Aksa Mosque'." 
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A "Territory of Lies"  indeed.
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	And in any event, the Hasmonean Tunnel does not rununder Temple Mount 
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Although it's noted (Rabinovich, JP 27 Sep 96) that ca."25 years ago" supervising archeologist Meir Ben-Dov"probed two ancient tunnels at the southern foot of theTemple Mount beneath Al-Aksa Mosque in the area of theHulda and Single gates,  penetrating five meters intoone and 30 meters into another, dating from the SecondTemple period.  The Moselm authories prevailed on thegovernment to call off Ben-Dov and the tunnels wereresealed.  They have remained so ever since."      

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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    Miscellaneous -- Tours of Refugee Camps
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The Al-Arab Hostel,  Khan el-Zeit St., Old City, POB 20754 Jlem,Tel: 02-628-3537, offers to arrange tours of the Refugee Camps. I'd not planned to take one, disguised as an Average American withBeard and Hat.
	
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  6 Oct 96
RE:    CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH
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The Hasmonean Tunnel should not have been opened at this time.
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COMMENT:  No-one has suggested a time at which it could havebeen opened.  The previous governments had not found one inthe past 8 years.
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Netanyahu is a bumbling amateur.
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BARAK'S CORRALLARY: Relative to Barak, Netanyhu was aminor junior officer, and so he always will be.
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COMMENT:  Nu:  So with the Hamas deportations (attributed bysome to Barak)  and with Quisling I & II Prime Minister Rabinproved himself a veritable Nobal Laureate of diplomacy, andwith Gripes of Wrath Defense Minister Peres proved himself amaster of military strategy?
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Palestinian anger reached the boiling point.
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COMMENT:  Arise, Oppressed of the Earth.  
	REALITY CHECK:  Insurrectionary movments showconsiderably more domination, manipulation and exploitation. Especially since the Intifada, when they're produced anddirected primarily for CNN.
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The Palestinians have been repeatedly humiliated.
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COMMENT:  So have most husbands and wives, but few find itnecessary to express their feelings by shooting semiautomatic weapons at the IDF.                                   
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The Piece Process must go on, because it is likely that if it doesnot, there will be armed conflict.
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And if it does go on, is that less likely afer a few yearspause?  And if then there is war, is such a war less likelyto be critical for Israel?
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  7 Oct 96
RE:    
REF:   NYT Weekly Review 29 Sept 96 (Serge Schmemann)
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Photo:  Rina Catelnueovo for the NYT.  A well-groomed, neatlydressed, appparently senior Palestinian officer is standing,sighting a semi-automatic (Kalashnikof?).  Caption:  [myunderlining and interjections]:  "Duirng the upheaval in the WestBank last week, a [many others did likewise] Palestinianpoliceman, encouraged by other Palestinians, shoots towards [moreprecisely aims at] Israeli soldiers in Ramallah."
                                 
Photo: Rina Catelnueovo for the NYT.  Israeli soldier, standing,sighting.  Caption:  "An Israeli soldier returns fire toward aPalestinian at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem."
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COMMENT:  Even-handedness strikes again.
	I haven't been to Rachel's Tomb in years, so I'm notclear whether the soldier was firing at end, or defending itand firing from it from attacking Palestinians.  If thelatter, then the caption is misleading and ungrammatic; itshould have read 'An Israeli soldier at Rachel's Tomb returnsfire..."
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Photo: Rina Catelnueovo for the NYT.  One worshipper at theWestern Wall.  Caption:  "Police cleared the Wailing Wall whenArabs above it threw stones.  One Jew stayed. "
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COMMENT:  Oy.
	According to Jewish tradition, the Wailing (alt. sp.:Waling, Whaling) Wall is the site from which the ProphetJonah was first seen, returning to the Holy Land under ratherunusual circumstancs, after a brief sea-voyage.  It islocated in Jaffo.
	'The Wailing Wall' is also the sardonic name given tothe western wall of the Herodian Temple Mount, the only siteinherently holy in Judaism,  when the occupying powerspermitted Jews access only on Tesha b'Av, when one isobligated to bewail the destruction of the Temple.
	"One Jew stayed."  While good Christian folk took cover.
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Appropriate to the Dignity of the NYT, the tone is Eulogeic, asort of Solominic "nothing new under the sun".  Like, we'retalking 1840's Manhattan Yekkes; the Ox muzzles itself.

"Yes, some Palestinian lands were confiscated" [after theinnaguration of Netanyhu].
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COMMENT:  I don't recall the factual referent for that.
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The writer then sets a sort of Twilight Zone mood that shouldprepare any Loyal Couch Potatoe to except disaster as a matter ofcourse:  "Nevertheless, there was a critical difference.  It wasnot so much in what Mr. Ne tanyahu said or did, as in what he didnot do.  Week after week, he avoided meeting [ChairpersonPoopoohead], or 
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[or?  -- English that ain't quite] 
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withdrawing from Hebron, or releasing Palestinian prisoners 
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[these were like GI POW dogfaces captured in a sort of Battleof the Bulge?  Or they maybe did something not nice, likechopping up living people with axes, so you maybe don't somuch want them living next door.] 
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or renewing negotiations 
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[for what, and with what assurance that what was bilaterallynegotiated would be bilaterally implemented and itsimplementation safeguarded?  Pure Process, no Peace.]
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or otherwise making clear what he intended to do."
       
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And now, Media Watch Fans, we come to this Fall's new Bias-Bit: The Fallacy of Personalization.  
	Analogous to the Fallacy of Anthropomorphization, whichconflates theology to legitimate drama, the Fallacy ofPersonalization conflates politics to Soap Opera.   
	Again, I suggest that the international news media should beanalyzed from the perspective of other forms of mass-mediaentertainment, particularly kiddie cartoon shows, and TV soapoperas.  Like, we ain't precisely talking the Federalist Papershere.

	Ok:  a rather innocuous start:  "Diplomats and United Nationsofficials warned that Palestinian nerves were stretched to thebreaking point."
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'Warned'?  
	Sure, and Don Corleone stops by for tea to warn that,saddened as he is by human folly, some of his young hotheads-- ah, irrespressible youth -- might break a few kneecaps ifthe Vigorish is not Freshened before 5 P.M. tomorrow.
	Threats veiled as prediction.

I often see people whose nerves have been stretched to thebreaking point; most of them live in houses with morechildren than rooms, and eat lots of white cheese andsphagetti.  Well-planned and co-ordinated armed uprisings,supervised by professional paramilitary personnel and bothplanned and followed through with diplomatic activity,  are abit different.                    
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"What began as Palestinian rock-throwing escalated.
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Yup.  But the implication of the term 'escalation' is of areciprically increasing vicious circle.    Either the writeris here implying that an Israeli patrol attacked by more than 10 times its number of rock-throwers has escalated theconflict if it shoots at them [well, try bouncing a rock offa USA cop and see if he just throws another one back at you],or the writer is duplicitously privately intending the term'escalated' in a unilateral sense -- the Palestinians firstthrew stones, and then moved on to bullets -- whilepublically leading the reader to take it in a bilateralsense.
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[ To speak of a `duplicitious statement' with a `privatedenotation' and `disjoint public connotation', is aslightly subtle and darned awkwardly-phrased point inwhat I hope to eventually sketch as a Theory of Meaningof media bias.]                                  
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"There is no certainty that Mr. Netanyhu appreciated the fullimport of opening the gate..."
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'There is no certainty'.  Now if that ain't a weasal-word,the weasal is a parson.         
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"There was little indication that he [Chairperson Poopoohead, weshould remember not to humiliate that psychopathic eunuch; serialkillers have sensitivities too] suspected that his own securityforces would open fire on the Israelis."
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By 'little indication' the writer evidently means that theNYT had at press time failed to find a FAX that read, in badArabic, 'Fire when ready, Gridley'.]   
	Like MacBeth said, Imagine my surprise when Banquo waslate for supper  -- can a monarch never even express hissecret daydreams -- although perhaps, in retrospect, a fewhired assassains were not one's ideal confidants ....
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[referring to the PLO police force]: "guerillas who had onlyrecently battled Israeli soldiers"
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COMMENT: 'Guerillas'?  Bullfeathers. 
	This ain't the partisans of Yugoslavia or Greeceharassing the German occupation; nor the Viet Minh/ Viet Congattacking the French colonialst administration and its USAsupported successors.  
	And anyone, guerillas attack sites and personnel oftactical military significance;  terrorists attack noncombatant civillians, usually random individuals, forstrategic purposes.  
	Most incidents of Intifada I were properly termedterrorism, not guerilla actions.  That campaign of terrorismachieved substantial strategic gains -- territory, funds,political recognition, and practial sovereignty -- from agovernment and political party that claimed to have madethese surrenders freely and motivated only by the loftiest ofethical/political considerations; Vichy, too, did not, notdoubt, lack rationalizers and apologists.  
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  7 Oct 96
RE:    NYT Weekly Review, Editorial 29 Sep 96
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"Mr. Netanyahu shuuld make clear that Israeli forces will not besent back into Palestinian-ruled towns except in the most extremeemergenicies."
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Presumably the NYT doesn't class any of the events of thepast week, -- eg the capture and trashing of Jewish yeshiva,capture of the police defending it (who were treated as POWsand presumably would have been held for some sort of ransomor prisoner exchange) and the ambush by sustained gunfire ofa rescue party, with 6 fatalities --  as such.
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"Israel should suspend the construction project in Jerusalem thatled to the Palestinian rioting."
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That is, the opening of an exit to the Hasmonean tunnel.  Itwas not a 'construction project'; and the work was completedin a few hours.  And it 'led to the rioting' only in thesense served as the pretext  with a deliberate Palestiniancampaign of incitement based on falsehoods (ie, the oftenused and always-effective falsehood that the Jews were movingagainst Al Aksa mosque)  for an apparently previously-plannedviolent demonstration aimed at achieving political gains byserving -- as it seems to have done -- as a pretext forcalling in international political/economic/diplomaticpressure.
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"Israel's current [my emphasis added] sovereignty of Jerusalem issecure and does not require the opening of a new entrance
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More precisely, an exit
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to an archeologic tunnel that runs alongside some of the holiestsites to Muslims and Jews.
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And what is the relevance of that red herring?
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"The alternative to peace is all to painfully familiar to Israelisand Palestinians."
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Good thinking.  But a completely vacuous statement.
And anyhow, Neville Chamberlin said it first.
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
       David bar-Ilan, re: Eye on Media, Jlem Post
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  7 Oct 96
RE:    
mREF:   Thomas E. Friedman NYT Weekly Review 
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CLUELESS IN JERUSALEM

Tom E. Friedman, self-described as "a tourist with attitude", ahired "Jewboy" [as Nixon once termed Kissinger] in the aw-shuckstradition of Tom Sawyer & Tom Hanks, hangs out at the King David &writes a serviceable [San Jocquain? - 90's] Valley Girl English. There will always be opportunities for socio-economic advancementto anyone Jewish of exceptional ability willing to more or lesssell out his own people.
	I think TNR, in the early 80's,  was the first to writepolittical analyses in straightforward American English; but theydid it well.  Krautheimer still does.   Tom E. writes in a sort of"in your face" style of iterated insults that presumably counts asgourmet English with those of the younger generation who accountit individuality to tatoo & pierce various of their bodily parts. 

The article's title, presumably written by Tom E., is "Bibi'sMoment of Truth:  Partnership or fantasy".  
	In the context of USA Machismo, where's they're prettyinsecure about such things, to call a man "Bibi" --  well, it justain't quite the sort of thing one would ordinarily say at a TruckStop, or to a head of State; but Tom E. has a faith in his ownomniscience matched by few outside closed wards.
	"Partnership or fantasy":  let's see Dore Gold delineateIsrael's options as clearly and concisely as that.  Presumably TomE. assumes that the Rabin/Peres Administration had opted for theformer.                                                  

"By the time Bibi called [Chairperson Poopoohead] matters werewell out of control."
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Yup.  But that does imply that Chairperson Poopoohead hadcontrolled these riots from the outset.
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"This was so predictable."
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Oh dear -- don't swoon just now.
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"Mr. Peres came to understand that Mr. [Poopoohead] culd neverguarantee security unless the peace process continued itsmomentum.:
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Yup.    But momentum after Netanya is apt to be limited to 15knots due east.  
	The old tiger by the tail syndrome; feed it with theleft hand, and hang on with the right hand.  
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Tom E. persists in calling Netanyanu Mr. Netanyhu.  Never 'PrimeMinister Netanyahu.'  He calls calls Poopoohead Mr. Poopoohead,never Chairperson, which is corrected; that psycopathic massmurderer was never honestly elected to anything.  So we got ushere old-fashioned neo-Colonialist patronizing, masqued asAmerican-style evenhandedness.

"he [Netanyahu] reserved the right to persue his own nationalistagenda"
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Yup; that is what he campaigned upon, and what a plurality ofthe electorate elected him to do
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"to treat Mr. [Poopoohead] as a pariah"
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You would maybe invite him for dinner?  Like, we're talkingworld-class sleaze; Gadaffi at least has a dash of class, andsome interesting bodyguards
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"and to foreclose all sorts of long-term options -- not just bywords but by unilaterally changing the status quo on the ground"
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Heck, even a dog unilaterally changes the status quo on theground.  And the state of Israel remains the only nation inthe land of Israel, excessive measures of local autonomynotwithstanding.  And anyhow the Netanyhu government, incontrast to all Israel governments 1967-1992, has notsubstantially changed the geography of settlement.
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Tom E. concludes, in a tone of clear-cut certainty rarely foundnowadays outside 1/2-hour TV dramas, that the only choice isbetween continuing the Rabin/Peres Piece Process, or war.  "Thereis nothing in between.  There never was."
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In his 6 Oct 96 column, Tom E. Friedman, simultaneously advisingboth the President and his challenger how to conduct theircampaigns, knocks off Dole for campaign attacks that are like"drive by shooting (Clinton has a photo-op foreign policy)".  Nowit does seem that Dole has chanced on not merely the most elegantbut the most accurate theory of what Clinton's foreign policyessentially consists of; but let that pass; Tom E. tries a quickdrive-by himself, dismissing Dole's criticism of Clinton's Israelpolicy as "ridiculous cheap shots (Clinton has been too hard onthe Israelis."	

	But of course he has, though not as hard as Baker/Bush 
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[from whom Mr. Christopher, that Honest Broker, seems to havelearned that David Levy, whom with extraordinary clumsinesshe publically encouraged to 'take a high profile in thenegotiations' (Israel  Radio news, 7 Oct) might be used toundermine the government he serves.
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During the previous Israel Administration, Clinton was assessed asthe best friend the government of Israel had ever had; but historymay judge the Rabin/Peres Administration as the worst internalenemy the state of Israel have ever had.
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MEDIA BIAS
TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  9 Oct 96
RE:    Int. Herald Tribune 7 Oct 96, Serge Schmeeman (NYT News            Service) 
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DETAILS:

"outbursts of violence"
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COMMENT: 	[Popular, spontaneous frustration and anger may beexpressed in outburts; and that fits the Oppressed of theEarth neo-Colonialist myth of Israel sold by the Palestiniansto the media of nations looking for popularized rationalesfor their realpolitik support of the Arab bloc [a nice littlebusiness in oil imports/arms exports, but for those peskymoralistic Jews ]. 
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"long-delayed Israeli withdrawal from Hebron"
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COMMENT:  To call it 'long-delayed' (rather than, eg 'illadvised and currently under re-evaluation') implies [though Ican't yet analyze why] that it should have happened, but hasbeen stalled,  unreasonably.
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"new Israeli demands"
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COMMENT:  Us Americans don't hold with haggling  -- likeSlippery Jim Baker said, contemptuously, "the shuk is alwaysopen".  When an American shakes your hand, the deal is done,boy.  
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I reckon USA media are politics, like Hollywood movies used to be.are a matter of a bunch of foreign hustlers shoving the USA's ownmyths back down the collective throat of a populace too well-bredto admit they were all always bullsh-t.

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