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<h1><b><i><font size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'>Fact-Checking Marvin
Kalb</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=5 color="#990000" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#990000'>Harvard's Twisted Report on <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>'s Invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
<p><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>By
FRANKLIN LAMB</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>Qana</span></font></st1:City><font size=5><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:country-region></span></font></st1:place><font
size=5><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=6 color="#990000" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:#990000'>F</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>irst it was (and is) that would be
tenure-denying, torture-justifying, Israeli occupation apologist, opponent
smearing, Alan Dershowitz. I could deal with Alan.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>But
now it's Marvin Kalb! A boyhood hero of mine!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>When
I spent a year at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
studying the Chinese Legal System a while back Dershowitz did not appear
particularly out of control.<br>
<br>
Neither did Marvin Kalb when we chatted at a Washington NBC function and who
seemed reasonable enough as moderator of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Meet
the Press</span></i>. So the problem for sure has got to be Harvard! Or maybe
it's just me!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Currently
a Senior Fellow at Harvard's, Joan <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Shorenstein
Center</span></i>, (no hard feelings that it's paid for by Walter
Shorestein-AIPAC's favorite member and Californian fundraiser or that its DC
office is very cozy with the nearby AIPAC office), Kalb recently published a
'study'<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>: </span></b>The Israeli-Hezbollah War
of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict. He was joined by Carol
Saivetz.<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>So far so good. I'm all
for '<i><span style='font-style:italic'>academic</span></i> studies.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The
JTA news desk featured Kalb's work on May 3, 2007 and AIPAC is now busy
flooding Congress with this "academic study" as they attempt to
intimidate the fourth estate with shrieks of "See we told you so! You guys
are anti-Israel and maybe closet anti-Semites! We have Harvard scholarship to
back it up!"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Some
Harvard scholarship!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I
won't nick pit Kalb's heavy duty sources for his tome: Fox News, Bill
Kristol's, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Weekly Standard</span></i>,
Anderson Cooper's <i><span style='font-style:italic'>" Hezbollah is still
a Secretive</span></i> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Organization</span></i>"(
I hope they are or I'm in trouble!) The Jewish Press's Media Monitor, and as
Kalb assures us "interviews with many Diplomats", none of whom he
names. Forget about the DC Madams phone records, I am more curious about Kalb's
secret 'Diplomats" and my concern is about what Harvard publishes as
'scholarship' these days.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb
doesn't tell us how much time he or his sources actually spent in Lebanon doing
research during or since the July war, but there were many solid journalists
here, and while they don't need me to defend their work, I would offer Marvin a
couple of fact-checks and an observation or two.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb's
Abstract of his 'research paper' succinctly presents his thesis: During the
Hezbollah-Israel "summertime war" (as in picnic, I guess) "the
media moved from being objective to becoming "fiery advocates (of
Hezbollah) and thus <i><span style='font-style:italic'>"a weapon of modern
warfare</span></i>".</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb
claims the media gave Hezbollah, which he calls "<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>a closed sect</span></i>" (that doesn't sound
too good) "<i><span style='font-style:italic'>total control</span></i> of
the daily message of journalism and propaganda" and this fact "<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>victimized Israel</span></i>" because the latter
is <i><span style='font-style:italic'>'an open society</span></i>" whereas
Hezbollah is " <i><span style='font-style:italic'>a closed</span></i>
society, that engages in " undemocratic control of the media", is <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>militant, secretive, a religiously fundamentalist
sect, a state within a state, subnational(not good)'Party of God", ,
resisting 'the infidel' and seeking 'divine victory' and supported by Iran and
Syria (!) )</span></i>and, if that is not enough, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>is similar to the Madhi army. </span></i>Kalb never mentions that <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> is supported by the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> to the tune of 15.1 million dollars a day or
300 times more than the CIA claims Hezbollah gets in foreign aid each year and
receives 83% of its weapons from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb's
first problem with the media focuses on the UN media website. His research
reveals that the much maligned UNIFIL observers, who Israel have bombed and
shelled 15 times in the past quarter century, posted on its <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>media web site</span></i> Israeli cross border
incursions that took place each preceding day. The same job the UN has been
tasked with doing since 1978, as it has documented more than 18,000 Israeli
violations of Lebanese territory including its air and sea space. Remarkably
Kalb's 'research' in this respect is identical to that of AIPAC's Lori
Lowenthal Marcus,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"What
Did You Do during the War, UNIFIL?" in The Weekly Standard of mid-august.
Kalb and Marcus claim that Hezbollah fighters, if they had laptops with
internet connections (there was no electricity in the south after the first few
hours of Israel's bombing) Hezbollah fighters learned something about where the
Israelis were and hence got "a gift" from the UN which became an
extremely valuable intelligence asset for Hezbollah, and Hezbollah exploited
it."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Fact check</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>: Kalb and Harvard's Shorenstein
Center may want to know that Hezbollah fighters, organized in groups of two or
three (sometimes five depending on the weapons used) know every inch of their
assigned areas in South Lebanon, in fact, much better than the UN does. They
were born in these villages, have fought the Israelis in this hilly terrain
since the 1970's and on July 12th knew exactly which 3 entry points (out of a
possible 24) the IDF was going to use to invade Lebanon and they were waiting
for them. Hezbollah also had a fairly good idea where every Israeli was at any
given time during the conflict. Israel's problem was that they could not find
Hezbollah until they wanted to be found whether it was at Marun al Ras, Eita
Chaab, Bint Jbeil, Yarun or anywhere along the 'blue line'.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The
Harvard study complains that the UN did not report on <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Hezbollah</span></i> movements, thereby exhibiting
anti-Israel bias.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Fact check:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Excuse me Marvin but if the IDF
with the latest US technology and night vision equipment, scores of cameras
mounted on Israeli Heron, Searcher Mk II, or Hermes 450 drones, and close up
satellite imaging could not find Hezbollah fighters the UN observers along the
blue line dodging Israeli shells were unlikely to. (On July 26 <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> did bomb
the UN post near Khaim killing four UN observers-Canadian, Chinese, and
Finnish) Moreover, the UN mission is to report <i><span style='font-style:italic'>crossings</span></i>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>of the 'blue line' </span></i>(only <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> was doing that), not to survey what is
going on <i><span style='font-style:italic'>inside</span></i> <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Moreover,
blaming the UN for doing its job, which <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> has done for 25 years, and
claiming Hezbollah fighters, under a blitz in a free fire zone, including an
estimated 4.8 million cluster bombs, were running around with laptops and
relied on the UN website for Israeli movements is patent nonsense. His
conclusion that "<i><span style='font-style:italic'>the</span></i> UN
media gave Hezbollah an <i><span style='font-style:italic'>extremely</span></i>
valuable intelligence asset which they exploited" is fantasy. "Tink
tank" 'researchers' really should to get out to the field more often and
learn the lay of the land, so to speak.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb
is troubled by what his research revealed<i><span style='font-style:italic'>:</span></i></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"They
(the Israelis) couldn't keep a secret. Hezbollah, on the other hand, controlled
its message with an iron grip. It had one spokesman and no leaks. Hezbollah did
not have to respond to criticism from bogglers, and it could always count on
unashamedly sympathetic Arab reporters to blast Israel for its
"disproportionate" military attack against LebanonDuring the 2006
summertime war in the Middle East, it was Israel versus Hezbollah, led by the charismatic
Hassan Nasrallah, and because Israel did not win the war, it is judged to have
lost."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Fact check</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>: Hezbollah operated an efficient
press information office with <i><span style='font-style:italic'>several
spokesmen</span></i> and plenty of backgrounders and volunteer staff who
answered every question they could and who did help the media. Nasrallah gave
no interviews during the 33 day conflict but did issue statements. With
virtually the whole Israeli military after him he was lying low.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb's
research found that "the media showed <i><span style='font-style:italic'>too
much destruction</span></i> of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:country-region>
and in its reporting <i><span style='font-style:italic'>did not credit <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>'s argument that international law allowed
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to bomb civilian areas if soldiers were hiding within these</span></i> <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>homes</span></i>." <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>
used this same argument during its 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, invasions, as it
does in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>
today. In the summer of 2006 it was very easy for the media to find evidence in
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
950,000 civilians were bombed out of their villages and the 32,000 homes
destroyed and were crowded into public parks in <st1:City w:st="on">Beirut</st1:City>
and schools and all over north <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
The media had lots of eye witness sources regarding the destruction of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
they properly reported what they learned.<br>
<br>
Kalb cites Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni's statement to the The<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> New York Times, </span></i>following the slaughter
at Qana<i><span style='font-style:italic'>, </span></i>"When you go to
sleep with a missile, you might find yourself waking up to another kind of
missile" as authority. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
later admitted there were no missiles fired from Qana, and no Hezbollah in the
area, but that it had made a <i><span style='font-style:italic'>mistake</span></i>
in killing those 28 civilians hiding in the shelter. Kalb might want to inform
diplomat Livni that none of the 10 adults or 18 children had gone to sleep with
a missile at Qana.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Fact check</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>: Again, researcher Kalb seems not
to understand how the war was being fought on the ground here in <st1:place
w:st="on">South Lebanon</st1:place>. Hezbollah was not hiding from Israeli
forces among the civilians. Contrariwise, they were eager to engage <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> every
chance they got. Typically Hezbollah fired their missiles from camouflaged
areas such as banana groves, orchards, dense foliage, bunkers, holes in the
ground, sides of rocky hills and valleys not from houses or towns. They knew
very well that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
would not hesitate to bomb civilian houses which they have been doing since the
late 1960's. After a particular mission, Hezbollah fighters would ditch their
weapons and try to sleep. Only rarely making their way back to their villages
to check on their families or property.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>With
respect to Israel's admitted <i><span style='font-style:italic'>mistake</span></i>
of bombing the Qana shelter, according to NGO-Lebanon, Israel made 6,979 <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>'mistakes'</span></i> in bombing during the 33 day
July War. Maybe Kalb finds that statistic acceptable given that <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> launched
more that 17,000 attacks at more than 8,000 targets, including 300,000
artillery shells and approximately 4.8 million cluster bombs. The juggernaut
international Israeli press operation did. Most of the media did not.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb's<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> research</span></i> also finds it problematical that
"not only diplomats but the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>media</span></i>
forgot about who<i><span style='font-style:italic'> started the war</span></i> and
focused on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
"disproportionate response." (Kalb's quotation marks imply that his
research found <i><span style='font-style:italic'>no disproportionate response
which puts him at odds with virtually all the world's media including Israel's)</span></i>).
So they did and should have. The applicable principle of international law is
simple enough. When one side trespasses, captures soldiers or commits a hostile
act that does not allow the other side, in retaliation, to slaughter hundreds
of civilians and destroy much of the country. The related principle of
international law is the obligation to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>discriminate</span></i>
between civilian and military targets. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s responsive killing of more
than 1,250 civilians, nearly 1/4 of them children, many fleeing in convoys
waving white flags, or following Israeli orders to flee, or hiding in cellars
with no fighters in the area, was indeed <i><span style='font-style:italic'>disproportionate
</span></i>to the capturing of the two soldiers. The international media
properly reported these war crimes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb's
research revealed that "Supporters of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s position, (including
scholars) tend to dismiss the proportionality/disproportional debate as
misleading and foolish". He may be right regarding the first group but
he's dead wrong regarding the second.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb
fails to mention the reams of available material on the subject of Israel's
illegal "disproportionate" bombing, which he denies occurred,
including many testimonies from the Israeli military to the effect that Israel
"lost it" early in the conflict, after being repeating ambushed and
not being able to locate Hezbollah fighters and in a vengeful frenzy carpet
bombed much of south Lebanon creating a free fire killing zone.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"What
we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombswe
fired 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets" (<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>IDF head of just one rocket unit quoted in Ha'aretz
on 9/12/06)</span></i></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>"In
the last 72 hours we fired all the munitions we had, all at the same spot, we
didn't even alter the directions of the gun. Friends of mine in the battalion
told me they also fired everything in the last three days-ordinary shells,
clusters, whatever they had." (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Israeli
reservist in an artillery battalion, quoted in Ha'aretz on 9/8/06)</span></i></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb,
admits that Israel has tough military censorship laws, which did not allow
reporting, or example, of the weapons stores and bases in northern Israel that
many of Hezbollah's missiles were aiming at, rather than targeting civilians,
but his media research criticized Hezbollah for restricting <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>movement</span></i> during Israel's bombing in
Lebanon. Hezbollah press aids did sometimes suggest, during intensive bombing
that for safety reporters might want watch the action on Al Manar TV. The
reason is that Hezbollah films most of its battles live because over the years <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> undercounts its causalities and over
counts Hezbollah's (Kalb uses <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
claim of 600 Hezbollah killed in the July war when the actual figure is 264).</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Fact check</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>: Al Manar viewership is often
higher in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
during conflicts than Israeli stations because Israelis have greater confidence
in Al Manar for truthful reporting than their own government fed stations.
Despite this well known fact, scholar Kalb, perhaps recalling his days as a
reporter in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USSR</st1:country-region>, smears
Al-Manar: "for reports and information about the war, Al-Manar was to
Hezbollah what Pravda was to the <st1:place w:st="on">Soviet Union</st1:place>."
Israeli TV viewers don't agree.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Kalb
finds a media 'clash of civilizations' problem when Newsweek did not run a
gruesome photo and Arab media did. His research concludes<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>: "Two value systems were clearly in collision:
one didn't go with the gruesome photo, one did go with it, in fact deliberately
spread it far and wide, wanting nothing more than to use any and every weapon
of "information" to defeat Israel"</span></i></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Interestingly
Kalb's conclusion is nearly word for word, the one that appeared on AIPAC's
website, before Kalb completed his own 'study'.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>To
paraphrase Alan Dershowitz's statement on his website ("I like
Carter") re President Carter, just before he trashed him, I want to say:
"I like Marvin Kalb". And I won't trash him. But if he'll come to <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region> I'll
show him around and help him with additional sources for the next printing of
his 'study'.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Franklin Lamb's</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> just released book<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>, The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>'s</span></i> <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Use of American Weapons in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></i> is available at
Amazon.com.uk. His volume, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Hezbollah: a
Brief Guide for Beginners</span></i> is due out in early summer, 2007. He can
be reached at <a href="mailto:fplamb@gmail.com">fplamb@gmail.com</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: lebanon-articles-bounces@MIT.EDU
[mailto:lebanon-articles-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Marc Haddad<br>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:02 PM<br>
To: lebanon-articles@mit.edu<br>
Subject: Re: [LCM Articles] Harvard Report Examines Media Coverageof <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region> War</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Quoting "Amer M.A. Khayyat" <AKhayyat@slb.com>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> Just a little background to "HonestReporting" the outfit
that brought <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> us the gem of an article quoted below... From their own website:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>good background info on the website and the quoted article, thank
you. I just<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>realized that people may have focused on the article instead of the
link it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>provides to the harvard report (direct link at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/research_papers/R29.pdf)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>but in any case the report doesn't fare much better in terms of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>objectivity and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>honest reporting, at the very least the conclusions are drawn based on
a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>one-sided opinion survey where the author doesn't give a value
judgement about<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>the data, it's a clever way to put forth some biased conclusions while
keeping<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>a safe distance. I'm sure it will be well received however
especially by<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>newcomers to this whole issue.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>FYI for anyone unfamiliar with Marvin Kalb the author of this harvard <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>report, he<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>was a harsh critic of a previous harvard study on the influence of the
israeli<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>lobby on US foreign<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>policy(http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011),<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>ironically his criticism at the time was that the study didn't meet
harvard's<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>research standards...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>marc<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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