Ha’aretz printed a rumor first, then published this article in response. Nice going, Ha’aretz, because, it’s not like anti-Semites won’t use the fact that an Israeli paper published this crap first as evidence that it’s true:
There is no truth to reports that Israelis staying at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman on Wednesday were evacuated by Jordanian security forces before the bombing that took place there.
The Israelis were escorted back to Israel by Jordanian security personnel only after the attacks had taken place, contrary to earlier reports.
Al Jazeera is only too happy to republish the lie, and I’ll bet any amount you won’t see a correction in their paper.
A number of Israelis staying at the Radisson hotel in Amman were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert, according to the website of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.
They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.
Nice going, Ha’aretz. Well done.
Schmucks.
And of course, the Arab press is more than happy to spread the lies around.
Look for this story to pop up repeatedly on neo-Nazi sites as well.
Once again, well done, Ha’aretz. I can’t thank you enough for supplying more lies to the enemies of Jews.
How about firing the editor who approved the story, as well as the reporter who wrote it?
Update: Someone tell Hugh Hewitt and Captain Ed the story is false. Because they’re passing it along like it isn’t.
Update 2: Hewitt changed the story. Ed has not. So much for “fact-checking your ass.” I wrote this post–and sent Ed an email–this morning.
Update 3: Ed was out all day. Let this be a lesson to you: Don’t bitch that something’s not getting done until you’re sure the person is available to do it.
Just like the story when Netanyahu was in London
forat the time of the bombings when British Security advised the Embassy after the explosion not to let him attend a planned meeting in the city.If the media can they will distort the facts.
But then you know that The Jewish Cabal kept 4000 Jews from going to work on 9/11.
Actually, the Jewish Cabal arranged for September 11 to occur just before Rosh Hashana so that those Jews who attended Selichos in the morning would arrive after the planes. They also shot down the helicopter that crashed in the Grand Canyon 30 days before so that people would be attending the shloshim observances on September 11. They also gave the Munsey bus a flat tire so that it would arrive late that day.
Of course, it must have been the Cabal who arranged for various conferences in other cities so that people who normally worked in the Trade Center buildings had to be out of town. Of cours, other Jews got to work early or on time and were in the buildings. A number were in the subways just arriving and were saved.
There is nothing that these idiots won’t make up to try to make the victims look bad.
You know, nearly 1000 hardcore Islamists died when that bridge failed in Iraq. Maybe the “Zionists warned ahead of time” gambit can be used to get them to kill more of themselves off?
“All secret Zionist agents infiltrating Mecca have been told to leave immediately… there’s a bomb alert!”
Then put the resulting stampede and carnage on pay-per-view.
The Daily Alert picked up the initial report also. Presumably the correction will run tomorrow. More importantly, don’t miss the link in today’s Daily Alert to an extremely interesting article by Reuven Paz concerning Abu Mus’ab al-Suri, an influential jihadi strategist.
Has anyone got any idea why Haaretz would run such a story or what their source is likely to have been? Is Yoav Stern a regular Haaretz columnist?
I find this very strange indeed.
Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bombings10nov10,0,2022733.story?coll=la-home-world
I’m not seeing a cite, Steve. Cite it, or don’t quote it. Not in an issue this sensitive.
As for why they would run the story: It concerns Israelis in a major terrorist attack. Why wouldn’t they run it? The real question is: Why didn’t they fact-check this absurd piece of trash? And why don’t they fire the reporter who wrote it, and the editor who approved it?
Never mind, I’ll post my response.
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Meryl Yourish, the quote is sited in the LA Times link that I posted above. I will post it again here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bombings10nov10,0,2022733.story?coll=la-home-world
The quote is on the left hand side just under the large, coloured advertisement.
Sorry, I’ve just read your piece above. Please ignore or delete these two posts.
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