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Does the Media Ever
Have To Say It's Sorry?
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
wurill "much of the
Fourth Estate"
apologize to Israel,
as writer Steven Emerson
urges in the Washington
Journalism Review?
Mr. Emerson is convinced
journalists should apologize
for falsely reporting that
Israel had sold U.S. weapons
technology to China.
Such reports started with a
March 12 Washington Times
report that the Bush Ad-
ministration was in-
vestigating intelligence ac-
counts that Israel had sup-
plied U.S. Patriot missiles to
China.
Mr. Emerson asserts that
the Washington Times had
"exaggerated" allegations
that China had possibly
received Patriot technology
from Israel, not the missile
itself.
On March 13, the Wall
Street Journal reported that
senior U.S. officials now
claimed that Israel had im-
properly transferred U.S.
technology to China, Ethio-
pia, South Africa and Chile.
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The Journal's article re-
ferred to an upcoming report
on technology transfer to
Israel by the State Depart-
ment's inspector general. A
former government official
told Mr. Emerson that the
report was a "dumping
ground for anyone that
wanted to get their digs in
on Israel."
Mr. Emerson said jour-
nalists reporting on the In-
spector General report
"largely overlooked
evidence about the ac-
curacy" of its conclusions
and that they "generally
disregarded the same in-
dependent Israeli military
analysts who are quoted ex-
tensively when they criticize
Israeli policies. This time,
these Israeli analysts re-
jected the technology
transfer charges as entirely
unfounded . . . '
Mr. Emerson also disputed
a March 16 report on ABC's
"World News Tonight" that
Israel had secretly trans-
ferred a laser-guided ar-
tillery shell to China.
Finally, on March 18, a
Washington Post analysis
noted that Israel and the
U.S. had jointly researched
and developed weapons for
25 years, and that it is
"impossible to determine the
exact nature of ... (their)
parentage."
Also, reported the Post, tl
decline in internationc.:2 -
arms sales means that the
U.S. and Israel now compete
for arms buyers and what
better way to undercut
Israeli competition than to
assert U.S. parentage of
technology?
And on March 20, New
York Times columnist A.M.-
Rosenthal reported that
Evans and Novak had
falsely claimed on March 16
that Israel was covertly ne-
gotiating to sell China its
STAR missile, which used
U.S.-developed technology
installed in America's
HAVE NAP missile. Actu- ,
ally, said Mr. Rosenthal, the
American missile used
Israeli-developed l
technology.
In early April, Pentagon
and State Department in-
vestigators said Israel had
not made any illicit'
technology transfers.
Washington Times and
New York Times editorials
urged U.S. officials who ha.
publicized false allegations,
to apologize to Israel. But
In early April,
Pentagon and
State Department
investigators said
Israel had not
made any illicit
technology
transfers.
apologies, says Mr. Emer-
son, should also come from
these papers — and all U.S.
media that reported the
bogus charges.
In a letter in the May 6 1
New York Times, Rowland
Evans and Robert Novak
still backed their account of,
Israeli technology transfers.
They also rejected Mr. I
Rosenthal's claims that they
had tried to show "Israeli),
duplicity" about the missile.
"Israel's record on the
question of 'duplicity' is
open for public inspection,"
they stated, referring to
Israel's 1967 attack on the '
U.S. spy ship Liberty. Th
columnists have asserted
that Israeli attacked the
ship after confirming it was
a U.S. vessel. Israel has re-
jected such claims for 25
years.