Credibility Still for Peace Now?
Dror Etkes (mis)leads the way
Dror Etkes, one of Peace Now’s “settlement experts,” doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to the facts. In February, he falsely claimed that illegal Palestinian construction “is undertaken by private individuals in all cases;” that illegal Palestinian building merely serves families in need and serves no political purpose; that “Most of the Palestinian illegal construction is undertaken on their own private land,” and that the Arab population in eastern Jerusalem has no right to vote in municipal elections. (This last claim is contradicted by Peace Now’s own documents.)
And in October 2006, Etkes’ Peace Now falsely reported that 86.4 percent of Ma’aleh Adumim land is privately owned by Palestinians — an error of 15,900 percent!
All of which makes us scratch our head in response to the New York Times latest report yesterday on Peace Now’s “findings.”
Just how many lies to you have to tell in order for the Times to no longer consider you a credible source worthy of coverage? Saeb Erekat, care to take a shot at that one?
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