So it really still says nothing.
Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "reed tryte" <dttdhmtp at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:42 AM Subject: Re: old Sharon interview
> Mea culpa, as well.
>
> http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/362271p-2936404c.html
>
> Opinions: HOLGER JENSEN: A mea culpa
>
> This is a mea culpa.
>
> I made a grievous error in not verifying the
> authenticity of 20-year-old quotes attributed to Ariel
> Sharon that I used in my April 12 column on the
> Israeli leader. As it turns out, they were made not by
> Sharon but another unnamed Israeli soldier who died 11
> years ago.
>
> The interview in question was conducted by Amos Oz,
> one of Israel's leading authors and prominent in the
> Peace Now movement. He had access to many Israeli
> generals and politicians of that era but identified
> some of his interview subjects only by letters of the
> alphabet, leaving it up to his readers to decide who
> they were.
>
> The interview with "Z" was published in the Israeli
> newspaper Davar on Dec. 17, 1982 (Davar ceased
> publication in 1996), and later republished in a book
> of Oz's collection of interviews, titled "In the Land
> of Israel."
>
> I was in both Beirut and Israel that year and remember
> the uproar it caused.
>
> When the interview first appeared after the invasion
> of Lebanon, "Z" was widely assumed to be Sharon
> because the interviewee was described as a military
> man "with a certain history," about 50 years of age,
> heavy-set and a prosperous farmer. All this fit the
> stocky Sharon, who had a farm, was the right age and
> certainly had "a history."
>
> [...]
>
> Oz never revealed who "Z" was, saying he had promised
> to protect his identity. He held to that promise when
> I telephoned him Monday, but confirmed that it was not
> Sharon.
>
> [...]
>
>
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