{"id":1329,"date":"2006-02-26T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2006-02-26T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T20:50:25","slug":"agence-france-presse-takes-notes-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Agence France Presse Takes Notes Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <em>Agence France Presse<\/em> article published in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=22523\"><em>The Daily Star<\/em><\/a> casts Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as a double-speaking, backtracking individual.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, for <em>AFP<\/em> and <em>The Daily Star<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/24\/AR2006022402317.html\">the interview<\/a> published by <em>Washington Post\/Newsweek<\/em> that is misrepresented is available to anyone with internet access and a desire to read it.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the writer based the article entirely upon quotes fed him\/her by U.S. envoy David Welch and Israel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israel-mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/\">Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni<\/a>, who is referred to by her first name only.   <\/p>\n<p>And of course, no article on Hamas is complete without a reference to its charter and the destruction of Israel, a call that was <a href=\"http:\/\/\">removed last month<\/a> but the fact makers have yet to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\/publish\/article_266.shtml\"> take notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One would think a journalist, concerned with the destruction of a people, would have words for Balata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Agence France Presse article published in today&#8217;s The Daily Star casts Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as a double-speaking, backtracking individual. Unfortunately, for AFP and The Daily Star, the interview published by Washington Post\/Newsweek that is misrepresented is available &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-lr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}