On Thursday, the WaPo published the following, completely craven "Correction":
-- A June 26 A-section article referred to Gilo as a Jewish settlement. It is a Jewish neighborhood built on land captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and annexed to Israel as part of Jerusalem's expanded municipal boundaries. The United Nations has not acknowledged the annexation.
So the WaPo quite simply endorses whatever Israel says is the case??
It is not just the UN that has failed to "acknowledge" the annexation/Anschluss of East Jerusalem to Israel. The United States has never either "acknowledged" or-- more to the point-- supported the vew that east Jerusalem is part of Israel, either. And neither have mst other countries of the world.
The International Court Of Justice, when it issued its 2004 ruling on Israel's Apartheid Barrier, came out unequivocally against the idea that Israel could unilaterally annex any part of the land occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem.
So why does the WaPo endorse Israel's Anschluss of East Jerusalem (and Gilo)? What kind of back-stage campaign was waged between June 26 and july 16 to "persuade" the ailing newsrag to do this?
This plunge in standards is all on a par with publisher/heiress Katharine Weymouth's shameless pimping of her newsroom.
But still, we should all send the paper letters of strong protest at this latest debacle.
