Surprisingly....NY Times actually covered the Beit Umar convoy

[Bryan Atinsky]

Well, it looks like the NY Times actually covered the Beit Umar convoy that I was on and wrote about a couple of days ago.  

It is a pretty decent article actually.  The only things I disagree with are the number of people/cars and the amount of food.  

They use very conservative estimates:

The odd issue is the number of cars...each car had a number put on it as it was leaving Jerusalem on the convoy.  There were 99 numbered cars....not 75 as said.  

Plus Two tons of food is way too consevative an estimate.  My friend Hillel for the last month had been doing a food drive at his art school and he brought 1 ton of food (rice, flour and sugar) alone.  That is not including the lorry full of food, which was at least 6 times as large (approx. a full semi), and other cars full of personal donations.  

But besides that, it is accurate, right down to the food truck breaking down.

Israelis Bring Help to Arabs in a village Under Seige

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/international/middleeast/30MIDE.html?ex=1010768290&ei=1&en=b07bbc3331fe4084

Best wishes,

Bryan 
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