Cheat-Seeking Missles

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Anti-Israeli Rumor-Mongering

This post on Memeorandum caught my eye big-time:
Yoav Stern / Haaretz: Israelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings — A number of Israelis staying on Wednesday at the Radisson hotel were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.
So I clicked through to the Haaretz story and found the story had been changed:
No truth to report of Israeli evacuations before Amman bombs
Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent

There is no truth to reports that Israelis staying at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman on Wednesday were evacuated by Jordanian security forces before the bombing that took place there.

The Israelis were escorted back to Israel by Jordanian security personnel only after the attacks had taken place, contrary to earlier reports.
These rumors that Israel is behind every Islamofascist terrorist act from Amman to Manhattan are so predictable, it's amazing any consideration is given to them. Unfortunately, most of the Muslim world and their anti-Israel allies will remember the former story, not the corrected story.