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York Post, which fretted that
"Arafat has much to prove. And
big questions — especially con-
cerning the PLO's ability to re-
strain Hamas terror — remain
open. For better or worse, the
days and months directly ahead
will likely answer them."
Predictably, newspapers in at
least two Arab countries vehe-
mently panned the Cairo signing.
In Syria, Al Baath said the agree-
ment is vague and lets Israel in-
terpret its clauses according to its
own interests. The paper also
claimed that the document gives
Israel gains at the expense of
Arab and Palestinian interests.
rated the United States sixth in
terms of press freedom because
of "increasing monopolization of
media and ... skyrocketing costs
of publishing and broadcasting
encourage advertising and rat-
ing influences on editorial con-
tent."
But at least the United States
was among the 37 percent of the
world's nations that have a free
press. Also in this minority was
Israel. But according to Leonard
R. Sussman in an accompanying
analysis of the survey, "If the
treatment of journalists — for-
eign, Israel and Palestinian—in
the occupied areas were assessed
here [in the survey], Israel would
not remain in the free press cat-
egory."
Israel's "military censorship
limits coverage of major political
and military actions associated
with the Palestinian occupation,"
wrote Mr. Sussman, an adjunct
professor of journalism and mass
communication at New York Uni-
versity.
None of Israel's Arab neighbors
was deemed to have a free press.
The best-rated Arab nation was
Jordan, which was granted a
"partly-free press" rating because
Another Syrian paper, "insufficient freedom has been
Tishreen, denounced temporary guaranteed the news media ...
and partial solutions as not be- [and] journalists are still licensed
ing based on a just, comprehen- and prior censorship of imported
sive peace and not supported by publications is mandated. A
the people.
broad list of taboo subjects is also
And in Iran, Joumhourriya al- imposed."
Islamai charged that the Cairo
Yet, according to Freedom
agreement is essentially a sur- House, an unnamed "media spe-
render and that the future of cialist" noted that "for all its
Palestinians will be determined shortcomings, the Jordanian
"on the field of uncompromising press is ... the most level-head-
struggle against the wild mur- ed and reliable in the Arab
derers" of Israel. The article also world."
attacked Egypt for being the
Lebanon, which once, accord-
"salesman of Zionism."
ing to Mr. Sussman, had the
But in Egypt, Al-G-oumbhour- freest news media in the Mideast,
riyya said the accord's signing on is now in the partly-free press col-
Egyptian soil was the crowning umn.
reward of the efforts of Egypt and
Arab countries with a totally
its president, Hosni Mubarak, to non-free press were judged to be
secure a peace between Israel Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt,
and Palestinians. Moreover, said Libya, Iran — and "Saddam Hus-
the paper, the pact was an im- sein's reign of terror and total me-
portant first step toward a com- dia control make Iraq the least
prehensive peace in the Mideast, free press in the world."
but one which in its view cannot
be achieved without Israel with-
drawing from the entire Golan
and South Lebanon.
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London's Financial
Times noted that the
"euphoria has
dissipated" since
last September's
White House
ceremony.
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According to a survey by the New
York-based human rights group,
Freedom House, the United
States is outranked by Belgium,
New Zealand, Australia, Norway
and Denmark as having the
freest press in the world.
The survey of 186 countries
Another
Plot?
In his "Hot Type" column in New
York magazine, John Lombardi
implies that magazine and book
editors conspired to suppress a
recent book about Jewish
reprisals against Nazis during
the immediate post-war years.
Mr. Lombardi is suspicious
that John Sack's "An Eye For An
Eye," which was published last
December, was hardly reviewed
and that the "excuse" of the edi-