Amira Hass Gets Lifetime Award

President Obama isn’t the only one receiving awards based on as-yet-unattained accomplishments. On Oct. 20, the International Women’s Media Foundation will reward Ha’aretz‘s Amira Hass the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.
According to IWMF’s press release:
[Hass] has demonstrated her ability to defy boundaries of gender, ethnicity and religion in her pursuit of the truth in her reporting. In covering the Palestinian Occupied Territories, her goal has been to provide her readers with detailed information about Israeli policies and especially that of restrictions of the freedom of movement.
Presumably, her “ability to defy boundaries” includes her two illegal entries into the Gaza Strip this year. Likewise, her “pursuit of the truth” apparently include her understatement concerning the amount of industrial fuel that Israel permits into the Gaza Strip, her misrepresentation of the Gaza Strip’s medical situation, and her false description of certain West Bank roads as “Jewish only.”
(Hat tip: MK)
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