Today’s lesson in media bias: Watch a wire service outright lie to its readers. First up, the Saudi peace initiative, which is essentially dead in the water due to the Arabs’ insistence that Israel agree to it before they can then begin to make changes to things they find objectionable. (And right now is a good time for a “WTF? You want me to sign the agreement and THEN say I don’t like it? WTF?”)
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa urged Israel on Sunday to accept a 2002 Arab peace initiative as a basis for peace negotiations, and insisted that Arab leaders meeting in Saudi Arabia later this week will not alter the proposal’s land-for-peace offer.
By the way, as to the AP’s contention that the Saudis keep hinting they’re going to change it: Uh, no.
Egyptian and Saudi leaders have said they want the offer to stand as is, and Syrian Vice President Farouk al Sharaa has been touring Arab countries urging no changes.
So now that we have the setup, let’s look at the latest AP story to see yet more out-and-out lies presented as truths.
JERUSALEM Mar 26, 2007 (AP)— Under U.S. pressure to answer increasing Arab flexibility on Mideast peace, Israel has agreed to resume face-to-face talks with a moderate, Western-backed Palestinian leader who is sharing power with Islamic Hamas militants, a U.S. official said Monday.
Someone needs to tell me where the increased flexibility is, because I seem to have missed the memo. However, the AP is lying in the second paragraph, too.
Also Monday, Israel welcomed the idea of a regional peace summit, although no such meeting is set, and Saudi Arabia suggested it would consider changes in a dormant peace initiative that could make it more acceptable to Israel.
This article is dated Monday. The articles above were published on Sunday. So the AP is utterly ignoring what it published on Sunday and directly contradicting it in Monday’s stories. I can’t wait to see what Tuesday will bring. I’m going to take a guess: The Arabs are being flexible, but the Israelis are refusing to budge.
What anti-Israel media bias?