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FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1991
We are winning.
iIPMERICAN
SOCETY
CANCER.
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asic journalistic stan-
dards — at least, in a
publication that
aspires to respectability —
usually require a modicum
of respect for those with
whom it disagrees,
regardless how heated their
differences may be.
So for the Dearborn-based
Arab American News to call
Israeli Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Shamir "Israel's
Imperial Wizard" was
degrading, both politically
and journalistically.
This allusion to the head of
the Ku Klux Klan appeared
in a recent lead article on
the front page of the ethnic
newspaper. The article, en-
titled "This Is The Wrong
Time to Settle the Arab-
Israeli Conflict," analyzed
Secretary of State James
Baker's current Middle East
peace plan. It was written by
Yitzhak Shamir:
Tagged "Imperial Wizard."
Muhammad Hallaj.
The article also hoped that
"Washington will someday
kick the Israeli habit.
Israel's insatiable appetite
for Arab land and American
money and weapons and its
seemingly limitless ar-
rogance make such hope
seem realistic."
Sniping At The
New Yorker'
David Bar-Illan, the
Jerusalem Post's media
critic, is convinced that
Amos Elon, the New
Yorker's Israeli correspon-
dent, has committed two
journalistic sins: plagiarism
and gross inaccuracy.
In his column last week,
Mr. Bar-Illan referred to a
•recent New Republic article
which noted incredible simi-
larities between the wording
in a Harper's article in Oc-
tober 1990 and an Elon piece
that appeared in the New
Yorker last December.
And, recalls Mr. Bar-Elan,
an Elon article in the New
Yorker earlier this year
about the Persian Gulf war
rejected reports that West
Bank Palestinians had
cheered for incoming Iraqi
Scud missiles. Mr. Elon said
he could not locate anyone
able to confirm the reports.
But Mr. Bar-Illan wrote
that eyewitness accounts of
Palestinians and Israeli
Arabs rooting for the Scuds
Amos Elon:
A plagiarist?
were "numerous," and ap-
peared in "every paper in
the country."
"That Elon would deny an
event which was repeated at
least a dozen times," wrote
Mr. Bar-Elan, "is less sur-
prising than that the New
Yorker, which prides itself
for accuracy if nothing else,
would print it . . ."
Covering And
Ignoring Sharon
Israeli Housing Minister
Ariel Sharon was in the U.S.
this week, and, for the most
part, was snubbed by the
administration.
This greatly upsets edito-
rial writers at the Forward,
who contend that Mr. Sha-
ron may hold "what may be
the important post of all (in
the Israeli cabinet) from the
point of view of the current