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Column One: The Haaretz spy scandal
By CAROLINE GLICK, The Jerusalem Post
April 16, 2010
Haaretz provides Israeli affirmation for anti-Israel attitudes.

Over the past two weeks Israel has been rocked by a major espionage
scandal in which the Haaretz newspaper plays a central role. To
understand the significance of the scandal, it is worthwhile to
preface a discussion of it with a look at a smaller story Haaretz
developed this week.

On Sunday, Haaretz’s Amira Hass reported that in January, the IDF
published a new military order that paves the way for the mass
expulsion of illegal aliens from Judea and Samaria. The story sported
the disturbing headline, “IDF order will enable mass deportation from
West Bank.”

In a follow-up on Monday, Hass reported that 10 self-described human
rights organizations (all funded by the New Israel Fund) sent a joint
letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak asking him to rescind the order.
She noted, too, that, “the international media also has taken great
interest in the story.”

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On Wednesday, Haaretz reported that Jordan had joined it in condemning Israel.

That’s quite an accomplishment for an Israeli newspaper with a
negligible share of the domestic market.

The only problem is that the order Hass reported on is 41 years old.
After creating an international scandal, on Wednesday Haaretz
acknowledged that the supposedly new order has been in place since
1969. What changed in January is that the IDF decided to expand the
rights of illegal aliens in Judea and Samaria to pre-deportation
hearings.

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HAARETZ’S MANIPULATION of the deportation story bears a striking
similarity to the way it manipulated its own spy scandal. That scandal
was under a total court-issued gag order that barred the local media
from reporting on it until last Thursday.

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