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זה יותר בקשר לאמינות והשתלדתי בכלל לא להביע דעה בנושא הקונפליקט עצמו First of all, I´d like to say that your site is great; me and some other Israelis I know check it out from time to time. Now, there is a small thing that´s been bothering me... Hold up hold up... I know you are thinking I’m gonna go all Zionist on you and whine about how Israel is ok and all. But no Fuckthat, I don´t have to explain myself to anyone, I trust people to make their own decisions and learn what´s out there. The thing is, in the two anti-Zionist or pro-Palestinian (maters which side you are on I guess…) articles I’ve seen you publish there have been, well. I won’t call them lies. But facts which are not true. Again, I won’t argue the Palestinian/Israeli question with you but: In: “I Will Not Apologize, I Will Not Resign” by Amiri Baraka many “problematic” statements are made, the biggest of all is: “My sources were, “Ha’aretz” and “Yadiot Ahranot” (two Israeli newspapers) “Al Watan” (a Jordanian newspaper), “Manar”-TV and the website of the Israeli security force SHABAK. There are a myriad references to this in Reuters, Der Spiegel. “ I will not argue what was in “Yediot” or “Ha’aretz” since I don’t really know… but... the Shabak (aka Shin-Bet or Shirut Bitachon Klali) as far as I know (I may be very mistaken) DOES NOT HAVE A WEBSITE!!! Now, this may be a little mistake, but if a man uses non-existent sources… I wonder where his facts are from. Please please please correct me if the Shabak does indeed have an official website, and give me the URL I will apologize and think myself a total fool. Another small mistake, which truly troubles me, is in “Producer Fredwreck´s Open Letter From Palestine” he says, “ALL ISRAELI citizens are soldiers! Men & Women are required to be in the army starting from age 16...And are required to serve as reservists for the rest of theyre lives...” This is untrue, men and women are required from age 18 and reserves are until age 45 for men only, only women officers or special positions do reserves and only until they are married… less than 20% of the Israeli population actually does reserves. Why is this troubling? Since all facts in an articles are under suspecsion once some of the statements are bluntly wrong. Yeah I bet some of the terrible things written in those articles might be true, I’ve been a solider I’ve seen horrible stuff happen…. But if you want to report the news. Make it right! (I apologize for any mistakes I’ve made in English and for this letter being long and maybe not as eloquent as someone else would have made it) -Tomer