<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1255"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I just wanted to say that it really surprised me when I read the section in Counterpunch about the article on our site.  We at Indymedia Israel were cautious not to put the article in the feature section specifically because there is no evidence of the accusations given by Carvalho...no e-mail, no name of his professor that we could contact.  We have a democratic publishing system and it is up to the reader to be conscious of the danger of accepting an article at face value (much in the same way, I guess for all media sources).  It is important that we have the capability of allowing for open publishing, however, it does have its danger. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The feature section in the middle of our page are specifically selected articles which we give prominance.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I actually would be a bit disenhearted if Counterpunch just grabbed what was written on our site and claimed it as evidence.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">We sent out feelers by contacting IMC-Brasil to look into it anyway.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>>On this, "CNN's videotape of Palestinians, " saw that >from Marcio A.V. Carvalho, on the Israeli Indymedia >website yesterday morning.</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Bryan Atinsky<BR>IMC-Israel <BR>English Editorial Coordinator<BR><A href="http://www.indymedia.org.il">http://www.indymedia.org.il</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>