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Mangling the 9/11 Commission's Report By Thomas Patrick Carroll FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 The contrast is stark. On the one hand we have the 9/11 Commission’s latest report, Overview of the Enemy, a detailed history of al Qaeda. Like the Commission’s other public statements, it’s informative and worth reading. On the other, there is the response to the report from the mass media. Here we find a truly astounding conceptual mess, even when measured against the Fourth Estate’s own generously self-forgiving standards. Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post nicely sums up this intellectual bus plunge. “Yesterday,” Froomkin wrote on...

<p>A dangerous and deceptive plot line has become superimposed onto the story that Israeli society tells itself about its conflict with the Palestinians.</p> <p>Since the outbreak of the current intefadeh two years ago, it is as if the Israeli mind has turned to a new page in the chronicle of the conflict and, at the same time, erased many of the pages that preceded it. It's as if the 33 years of repression, occupation and humiliation that Israel imposed upon the West Bank and Gaza between June 1967 and September 2000 had vanished with the wave of a magic wand.</p>

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