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Is the "Israel lobby" distorting America's Mideast policies?
Two leading academics have tried to break the taboo against criticizing Israel's powerful U.S. lobby. It's a worthy aim, but their clumsy argument may backfire.
By Michelle Goldberg [2006-04-18]

  • Goldberg's article distorts geography

    Goldberg's article begins with an incredible distortion -- the map, which bears little resemblance to reality. On Goldberg's map, Israel is shown as larger than Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia -- when in fact it is much smaller. On Goldberg's map, Jordan is missing entirely. A comparison with a real map shows that the country marked "Israel" on Goldberg's map is approximately Israel + Jordan. How much credence are we supposed to give an article of analysis that cannot get basic geography correct? And how much credence are we supposed to give Salon.com if its fact-checkers can't get basic geography correct?

    -- bill-in-la
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    Tuesday, April 18, 2006 08:28 AM
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