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Peres and Jerusalem Post

The editorial in today's Jerusalem Post correctly criticizes those who protested outside Shimon Peres' birthday party and called for "the Oslo criminals" to be brought to justice:

"No Israeli newspaper has been more steadfast in its opposition to the Oslo Accords than The Jerusalem Post. But we do not join in the protesters' sentiments. Surely the 'Oslo criminals' did not build the reactor at Dimona, or Israel Aircraft Industries, or many of the settlements. Surely the "Oslo criminals" did not organize the Entebbe rescue, or rescue Israel's economy from hyperinflation, or arrange our peace with Jordan. These are the foundation stones upon which the modern Jewish state is built. The man who did so much to put them there deserves, at the very least, a more intelligent opposition."

The editorial fails to note, however, that the Jerusalem Post publishes advertisements from Women in Green, the main group leading the anti-Peres protest. Indeed last Friday's paper had an ad calling for people to join the protest.

Of course, publication of advertisements from a group does not suggest an endorsement of that group's political views, and in addition to Women in Green, Friday's Jerusalem Post also published an ad from Gush Shalom, a radical left-wing Israeli group which is promising to act as human shields for Yasser Arafat.

Still, the editorial should have mentioned that those promoting the anti-Peres event regularly advertise in the Jerusalem Post.
posted on 9/23/2003