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To: BigBull who wrote (46131)	9/22/2002 1:50:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Yes, and the Guardian's reporter is full of sympathy for the poor Palestinians. This is a good example of story that goes with the Guardian's slant, and contains a good example of why I am suspicious of their pro-slant stories: Now Arafat's political position has been strengthened. 'It's not a matter of whether I love or hate Arafat,' said Abdullah Injum. 'He is the symbol of our national identity. I don't think that destroying his compound will solve the Palestinian issue. 'Arafat is paying a heavy price for rejecting Sharon's type of peace. After Oslo, for years there were no suicide operations in Israel. They've had quotes like this a million times, and there's definitely a high comfort level with including them. Now, this quote contains a manifest untruth. I don't know if Abdullah Injum is actually lying, because this is the sort of lie that the Arabs have told each other so many times that they all believe the lie by now, but it's quite untrue and easy to check. Far from dropping, Israeli deaths from terrorism shot up in the years after Oslo, because it was in 1994, only one year after Oslo, that Hamas invented the brilliant new idea of the suicide bus-bombing, precisely in an effort to derail Oslo. The major attacks are listed here israel.org I still have the quaint notion that it's not the proper job of reporters to pass lies verbatim as the conclusion of an article, but the Guardian plainly has other ideas.