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[furman]

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=31&x_actionitem=63

July 14, 2006
Washington Post: Memory Lapse on Hezbollah
Omissions of key facts undermine The Washington Post’s lead front-page report, "Hezbollah Raid Opens 2nd Front for Israel; Lebanese Shiite Fighters Seize 2 Soldiers; Olmert Calls Deadly Attack ‘an Act of War’," July 13.

• The article, by Post Foreign Service correspondents Anthony Shadid and Scott Wilson, notes that "the United States blamed Syria and Iran for the abduction" of Israeli troops, but does not say why. Readers ought to be informed that:

Iran reportedly provides much of Hezbollah’s $100 million annual budget and Hezbollah is suspected as serving as an extension of Iranian intelligence;

As mentioned in a same-day analysis by The Post’s Robin Wright, "Hezbollah was founded in 1982 with the funding, arms and training by Iranian Revolutionary Guards dispatched to Lebanon after Israel’s invasion";
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• The article does not mention the Nazi-like antisemitic utterances of Hezbollah leaders or the organization’s goals of the destruction of Israel and imposition of an Iranian-style theocracy in Lebanon.
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• A chronology accompanying the article refers to Hezbollah attacks against "Israeli military posts in the disputed Shebaa Farms area ...." The Post continues to refer occasionally to the Shebaa Farms area as disputed, but there is no real dispute, as CAMERA has pointed out previously. The area is recognized internationally as part of the Golan Heights, taken by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. Israel withdrew completely from Lebanon in May 2000. The United Nations, "using dozens of maps, say Shebaa is part of Syria but the two nations are free to change the border, which they have not" ("UN urges Lebanon to disband Hizbollah, set borders," Reuters, Apr. 19, 2006). Hezbollah insists that the area is Lebanese as a pretext to avoid disarmament, as the Reuters report — but not The Post chronology — highlights.
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