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This screaming headine in The Independent is badly undermined by the very last sentence of its story. But the last sentence says: Many of the Bedouin lack land-ownership deeds. Methinks a more accurate screaming headline…

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This screaming headine in The Independent is badly undermined by the very last sentence of its story.

But the last sentence says:

Many of the Bedouin lack land-ownership deeds.

Methinks a more accurate screaming headline should say something like this:

Illegal Bedouin construction picking up speed

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Tags: Bedouin, biased headline, home demolitions, The Independent

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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