Though we already posted about Phoebe Greenwood’s July 23 report concerning the EU’s upgrade of Israel’s trading and diplomatic status, EU move to upgrade relations with Israel, I recently recognized a glaring error in the following passage from her piece:
“As recently as 8 June, [Catherine Ashton] issued a statement deploring Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to build an additional 800 settlements in occupied territory – compensation for the 17 Israeli families the country’s high court had ordered to be removed from the Migron settlement.” [emphasis added]What Greenwood was evidently referring to are 800 new HOMES which Israel recently announced they plan to build – in the existing Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa (see here and here) – and not 800 new “SETTLEMENTS“.
Indeed, there are – even according to the far left, anti-settlement Israeli group Peace Now - 120 ”settlements” in total in Judea and Samaria, and another 12 in “East” Jerusalem.
I contacted the Guardian’s Readers’ Editor seeking a correction.
UPDATE: The Guardian has amended their article to correct the mistake. They’ve added this:
I contacted the Guardian’s Readers’ Editor seeking a correction.
UPDATE: The Guardian has amended their article to correct the mistake. They’ve added this:
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The Guardian is plainly an out right fraud, not to mention it's Socialism driven agenda...
Or as the Brits would say, complete rubbish, indeed..
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