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The Detroit Jewish News, 1991-05-24

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FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991

According to the Washing-
ton-based, politically con-
servative Center for Media
and Public Affairs, ABC
showed only 80 scenes of
damage to Israel from Iraqi
Scud missile attacks, com-
pared to an average of 100
on NBC and CBS. The net-
work also quoted Israeli
sources 79 times, while its
rivals quoted them an
average of 112 times. And
only 60 percent of its sources
—19 points less than the
average at the other two
network's — positively
assessed the Israeli govern-

ment's actions during the
war.
In a related incident, on
April 20, the New Republic's
editor-in-chief called ABC
"the worst of the networks"
regarding balanced, accu-
rate coverage of the Middle
East.
Speaking at the Israeli
Embassy in Washington
after receiving the Emet
"Truth" Award from the
Washington chapter of
CAMERA, the pro-Israel
media watchdog group, Mar-
tin Peretz said he had re-
cently written about ABC's
approach to the region.
When ABC news director,
Roone Arledge, responded,
Mr. Peretz said the New Re-
public would publish his
letter only if he was allowed
to answer him on ABC.
"Of course," said Mr.
Peretz, "there has been no
response from ABC."

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Is Baltimore Hebrew Uni-
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Robert 0. Freedman "an
admirer of PLO murder
gang chief Yassir Arafat?"
as Jerusalem Post columnist
Moshe Kohn recently charg-
ed.
"Assuredly not," re-
sponded Prof. Freedman.
"This is nonsense."
In his column, Mr. Kohn
had referred to Prof. Freed-
man's meeting with Mr.
Arafat in Tunis in February,
1989. This was two months
after the PLO leader had re-
nounced terrorism and said
the PLO would live peaceful-
ly with Israel after a Pales-
tinian state had been cre-
ated adjacent to the Jewish
state.
The Jerusalem Post writer
quoted a New York Review of
Books article by Prof.
Freedman in which he
stated that he had "conclud-
ed that a dialogue between
the PLO and Israel was
necessary to clean up the
misconceptions that have
accumulated" over the
decades of the Arab-Israeli
conflict.
Prof. Freedman reported
that he had met with Mr.
Arafat two years ago as a
member of an unofficial
delegation that included
"senior experts in Middle
East diplomacy," including
an ex-government official
who had helped engineer the
Camp David settlement.

Robert 0. Freedman:
No esteem for Arafat.

"We wanted to see if
Arafat was serious about
peace," he said. "I told him
that if he was serious he
would have to agree to a
demilitarized Palestinian

"We wanted to see
if Arafat was
serious about
peace."

— Robert 0. Freedman

state and renounce the cove-
nant in the PLO charter that
calls for Israel's destruction.
Since then, I have strongly
criticized Arafat for not de-
nouncing terrorist incidents
that have been waged
against Israel, and for siding
with Saddam Hussein
against Israel.
"Arafat has a way of re-
peatedly shooting himself in
the foot."

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