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Sunday, June 15, 2003
Yet Further Times Distortion In his column in Sunday's New York Times, Thomas Friedman wrote that "In a Yediot Ahronot poll released Friday, two-thirds of Israelis were critical of Mr. Sharon's tactic of targeted assassinations of Hamas officials and said they wanted Mr. Abbas to be given a chance to establish his authority." Here's what the relevant question in the Yediot poll about trageted killings of Hamas terrorists showed: Should the policy of targeted killing continue or should it be stopped and Abu Mazen be given a chance to establish himself in the PA? Continue 30% Stop temporarily 58% Stop completely 9% No reply 3% Friedman's claim that two-thirds of Israelis are "critical" of the policy of liquidating Hamas terrorists is a quite strained interpretation of the poll results, which also shows that 88% of Israelis support the policy of killing Hamas members. | "