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Reuters Blames Israel For Doomsday

It’s an otherwise forgettable analysis of Israeli plans to develop E1. Could Reuters possibly have come up with a more sensationalized headline? “Doomsday” hill may be one Israeli settlement too far Doomsday? By whipping up…

Pesach Benson
December 4, 2012
12:00 am

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It’s an otherwise forgettable analysis of Israeli plans to develop E1. Could Reuters possibly have come up with a more sensationalized headline?

“Doomsday” hill may be one Israeli settlement too far

Doomsday?

By whipping up hysteria, Reuters distracts readers from the real doomsday of December 21, when the Mayan calendar ends and the apocalypse begins.

Take a deep breath. As Elliott Abrams explains, the E1 controversy is “much ado about little.”

And as I explained earlier this week, despite the hype, E1 doesn’t divide the West Bank in two.

Now where can I get one of those doomsday survival kits?

(Image via Flickr/Kim-bodia)

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Tags: Crispian Balmer, E1, Jerusalem, Maale Adumim, Reuters, settlements, West Bank

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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