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Times Omission

Today's Times reports on Likud opposition to Prime Minister Sharon's acceptance of the road map.

According to the article, which was written by Greg Myre, "one Likud lawmaker, Yehiel Hazan, asked what the settlement freeze meant for Jewish families living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Mr. Sharon, a leading patron of the settlement movement, appeared to brush aside that stipulation in the road map. 'There is no restriction here, and you can build for your children and grandchildren, and I hope for your great-grandchildren as well,' he replied."

The Jerusalem Post reported the same exchange as follows: "in response to a question by MK Yehiel Hazan about whether his children could build in the settlement of Ariel where he lived, Sharon said, 'You, your children, and even your grandchildren can build there.'"

While the Times account is technically accurate, it failed to reveal that Hazan was specifically asking about his own settlement of Ariel, the largest settlement in Samaria, with approximately 20,000 permanent residents and thousands of students who study in the town's College of Judea and Samaria. Under the Clinton Plan, Ariel would have been annexed to Israel as part of the Western Samaria settlement bloc, and may therefore not be subject to any settlement freeze mandated by the roadmap.
posted on 5/27/2003