How many more times can Ha’aretz err so before losing all credibility? Then again, considering the New York Times and its survival, lack of accountability does not bring a paper down and monkey business like this probably even increases sales.
A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.
Quashed or deliberate misinformation? If Ha’aretz is not staffed by bumbling incompetents then why do they do it?
This observation is true enough:
Imagine how it will play on the Arab street that Jordanian police saved Israeli tourists first and left Jordanians and Arabs to die. To say it wont go down well would be an understatement.
Creative destruction – courtesy of a rag sheet’s theatrics.
Palestinian officials among dead
Two high-ranking Palestinian security officials, a senior Palestinian banker and the commercial attache at the Palestinian embassy in Cairo died in the bombings in Jordan, the Palestinian envoy to Amman said on Thursday.
Maj.-Gen. Bashir Nafeh, the head of military intelligence in the West Bank, and Col. Abed Allun, a high-ranking Preventive Security forces official, were killed in the attack at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Ambassador Attala Kheri told The AP in a telephone interview.
Jihad Fatouh, the commercial attache at the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo, and Mosab Khorma, deputy Chairman of Cairo-Amman Bank in the Palestinian territories, were also killed in the three nearly simultaneous suicide bombings on American-owned hotels in the Jordanian capital on Wednesday night, Kheri said.
The Palestinian Authority ordered Palestinian flags lowered to half-staff for one day, and declared a three-day mourning period.
“It’s a very sad day for Palestinians, and we extend our condolences to King Abdullah and the Jordanian people,” Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia told reporters. “We condemn this attack vehemently. It’s a criminal attack that targeted innocent civilians.”
Ali Abunimah discusses the bombings.