From M.: "Sometimes I wonder if US reporters are not just outright bribed by the
Israel's. In today's WP Wilson writes: (emphasis mine)
"In
lieu of peace, Israeli leaders say, measures such as Iron Dome, which was funded
in part by the U.S. government, are vital. Some of the system’s advocates say
that by preventing the kind of mass civilian killings that often force military
reprisals here, the dome will afford Israeli leaders more political latitude
to make decisions about war and negotiations."
Utterly
disgusting. Thought you might want to comment on it.
Joel
Greenberg's piece on Meshal reads like it was written in Tel Aviv. (I'm no fan
of Meshal or Hamas nor of the MB, nor of the lunatics in Syria - on both
sides).
The
Post seems to have a zillion reporters in the area now. As far as I can tell,
and I've not done enough research, the most qualified in Abigail Hauslohner who
seems to have made a very serious effort to study Arabic. I've been following
her on twitter and she seems pretty good. Sadly, although she is the Cairo
Bureau chief, many of the articles coming out are not done by her. And why have
Greenberg go to Gaza when she was already there and did a very
job?
Wilson's
article:
Greenberg's article:
And then there is the controversy over "fight" and "kill" in
an article apparently written by a native Arabic speaker, Abeer Ayyoub, who has
a degree in English from the Islamic University in Gaza. Your comrade at EI has
been raising hell, so no doubt you are aware of this issue. My gut feeling is
that she did not provide the incorrect translation and that the error was
something added in either by some dope at the Observer who thinks he/she knows
Arabic, or by someone at Haaretz, the paper Ms. Ayyoub's twitter page says she
works for. She's got quite a few articles on Haaretz as it turns out. However,
she does not appear to me to be a sellout.
Had not meant to ramble on and on."
