Posted on 10/20/2014 11:57:30 PM PDT by Zionista Feminista
To be sure, the information provided by Steve Emerson regarding a decision by the U.S. government to stand down on an ongoing attempt to provide the Israeli government with critical information regarding an Israeli soldier whom Hamas claimed it had in its custody during this summers conflict was shocking.
But perhaps just as shocking or it should be was a politically driven smear by Haaretz of Emersons credentials and his alleged political friendships, suggesting that was all that was driving Emersons claims.
Although the Haaretz article claimed Emerson was wrong about the facts that he alleged, its portrayal of the U.S. governments refutation was misleading and its focus ugly that Emerson, a right-wing Republican is a personal friend of Sheldon Adelson, who is a formidable patron of the Republican party and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
The Haaretz article stated as fact that Emerson is a controversial figure in the United States about whom members of the Muslim community and the left in the United States (no names, no numbers, just members) say he is islamophobic.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishpress.com ...
I despise Haaretz with an unhealthy passion.
Ha’aretz: Neturei Karta with journalism degrees.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
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