Only hours after the cold-blooded PLO-endorsed murder of yet another Jew, today\'s Jerusalem Post appeared on newsstands and doorsteps all over Israel, and on the internet all over the world, with a full-page feature story by Larry Derfner entitled, \"A Time for Vengeance?\" Media correspondent David Bedein notes that the article begins with the report of the murder of three members of an Arab family ten days ago, and implicates Jewish residents of Judea in their murder. But it took until close to the 15th paragraph - after a discussion of Jewish calls for \"revenge,\" lists of other alleged and unproved \"Jewish terrorism,\" and reports by the one-sided B\'Tzelem organization - for Derfner to even raise the possibility that it may not have been Jews at all who committed this latest crime.
\"At a time when all other Israeli media outlets have stopped pointing the finger at Jewish residents of Judea as the possible murderers of this family,\" writes Bedein, \"the Jerusalem Post revives the witch hunt and gives it new credibility. The paper could have quoted the other directions that the Israeli police are now pursuing - that Tmeizi [a member of the targeted family] was a rival of Rajoub, that Tmeizi acted in the service of Israeli intelligence, or that in numerous instances of drive-by shootings, PLO killers have taken to wearing IDF uniforms and even Kippot .\" Arutz-7\'s Haggai Huberman notes that Israeli officials never saw the bodies, and in fact the only testimony about the murder and the murderers was provided by Palestinian witnesses.
Bedein also noted that the Post\'s Derfner quoted B\'Tzelem, \"an organization that monitors human rights \'beyond the Green Line\' with questionable credibility, since it rarely cites Jews who live \'beyond the Green Line\' as a source of information. The Jerusalem Post could have mentioned that B\'Tzelem is funded by the European Union, which does so as part of its efforts to expel the \'colonists\' from Judea.\"
In a related item, the head of the Shomron-Yehuda Police District Traffic Wing now wishes to correct previous announcements, leaks, and other misinformation reported on the media, and says that the accident in which 27-year-old Nirit Sakuri of Kedumim was killed earlier this week was not caused by a rock thrown by Jews. The rock found inside the Arab taxi that crashed into the victim\'s car was, according to all signs, used by Arabs to break the taxi\'s windshield and extricate the injured driver - and was not thrown by Jews, as implied in many media reports.
\"At a time when all other Israeli media outlets have stopped pointing the finger at Jewish residents of Judea as the possible murderers of this family,\" writes Bedein, \"the Jerusalem Post revives the witch hunt and gives it new credibility. The paper could have quoted the other directions that the Israeli police are now pursuing - that Tmeizi [a member of the targeted family] was a rival of Rajoub, that Tmeizi acted in the service of Israeli intelligence, or that in numerous instances of drive-by shootings, PLO killers have taken to wearing IDF uniforms and even Kippot .\" Arutz-7\'s Haggai Huberman notes that Israeli officials never saw the bodies, and in fact the only testimony about the murder and the murderers was provided by Palestinian witnesses.
Bedein also noted that the Post\'s Derfner quoted B\'Tzelem, \"an organization that monitors human rights \'beyond the Green Line\' with questionable credibility, since it rarely cites Jews who live \'beyond the Green Line\' as a source of information. The Jerusalem Post could have mentioned that B\'Tzelem is funded by the European Union, which does so as part of its efforts to expel the \'colonists\' from Judea.\"
In a related item, the head of the Shomron-Yehuda Police District Traffic Wing now wishes to correct previous announcements, leaks, and other misinformation reported on the media, and says that the accident in which 27-year-old Nirit Sakuri of Kedumim was killed earlier this week was not caused by a rock thrown by Jews. The rock found inside the Arab taxi that crashed into the victim\'s car was, according to all signs, used by Arabs to break the taxi\'s windshield and extricate the injured driver - and was not thrown by Jews, as implied in many media reports.