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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.

CAMERA: BBC and New York Times Omit Coverage of Palestinian Corruption Story - 'The Jerusalem Post has published a series of articles relaying accusations by the former head of the Palestinian Authority’s anti-corruption department, Fahmi Shabaneh, that close associates of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas engaged in embezzlement, land theft and fraud. According to Post correspondent Khalid Abu Toameh, Shabaneh possesses numerous documents exposing the theft of government money, much of which comes from foreign donations. These revelations are only part of the story. An equally troubling aspect of this scandal is the accusation by Shabaneh that he offered his information to foreign journalists and they refused it for fear of offending the Palestinian government...'

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Gee. Nobody has a problem offending the governments of New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

Or Israel's government, or Argentina's, Iran's, Britain's, or Italy's...

So - wtf?

It would be "counter revolutionary" for the "bbc" and the NYT (We Omit News That Doesn't Fit Our Agenda) to document corruption within the "revolutionary" paleswinian entities.

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