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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (1869)	5/19/2002 10:10:18 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Respond to of 2279

Amein, the "verbatim" quotes published in Davar and supposedly made by Sharon in an interview with Israeli writer Amos Oz were in fact not made by Sharon. They were attributed to another unnamed Israeli officer. I believe that Holger Jensen's story has been removed from the Rocky Mountain News. The Toronto Globe and Mail mistakenly referred to the interview in this article: theglobeandmail.com However they published a correction two days later. (Scroll down to the bottom of the article to read the correction.) Correction A Comment article by author Erna Paris in this space Wednesday erroneously attributed certain remarks to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The statement, said to have been made in an interview with Israeli writer Amos Oz, was in fact made by another senior Israeli military official, who remains unnamed. Ms. Paris had accepted the interview's attribution in good faith, from a reliable source, and was informed of its inaccuracy only after publication. She and The Globe and Mail regret the error. (Friday, April 19, 2002, Page A15) I am sure that you realize the value of quotes by "unnamed" sources.

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (1869)	5/20/2002 9:39:26 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2279

That interview by Amos Oz is not of Ariel Sharon. When I first saw that interview on the net, on a Muslim site, I wrote to Ben Gurion University in an attempt to query Oz about it. Professor Oz doesn't have email, but I was given a contact email, and on May 11 got this reply from Professor Oz, relayed by an Ellen Moshenberg, also at the university: Dear _________, I have never interviewed Mr. Sharon. I have never even met Mr. Sharon. The text you refer to is an interview with a private citizen, an Israeli extremist who died several years ago. Sincerely, Amos Oz I just wrote to Oz via Moshenberg, sending the Rense link, and to Rense, sending the correction and the information about how to contact Oz for confirmation. It will be interesting to see if the correction is made on Rense's page. It is striking to me that Rense didn't bother to check. I managed to get the truth by putting "Ben Gurion University" into google and sending an email.