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Media Censors “Tough Love for Israel” comment by head of Israel for Obama
This is the quote that appeared in numerous articles sourced from the original AP story about Obama’s trip to Israel by the head of an organization calling itself “Israel for Obama”.
“In general, I think tough love is better than a free hand,” said Samson Altman-Schevitz, head of the Israel for Obama campaign. He moved to Israel two years ago from Chicago, where Obama’s wife, Michelle, was his adviser at the University of Chicago.
This quote originally appeared in the AP story at outlets such as USA Today and the Miami Herald, as can be seen via a Google search. However it now only appears at the Guardian and various blogs. Instead the outlets have run a greatly foreshortened version of the piece that censors all such negative references to Obama pressuring Israel.
The AP story was emblematic of the sort of “Tough Love” the media would like to see applied to Israel. However it would seem that cooler heads, whether in the Obama campaign or in the outlets themselves, chose to slash everything but a purely pro-Israel take from the AP story. This is of course not for Israel’s benefit, but in order to present Obama as Pro-Israel to a gullible American Jewish audience.
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