Aaron Klein dipped into his presumed retinue of untraceable, anonymous sources in honor of President Obama’s trip to Israel this past week.
A March 20 article cited a “Palestinian official, who asked that his name be withheld” to claim that “In a conversation with the Palestinian Authority, a White House official apparently compared Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, to the gravesite of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,” claiming that “just as Obama won’t address the Knesset, which is a symbol of Israeli nationalism, so too he won’t visit the grave, a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.”
The next day, Klein followed that up by claiming a “top PA negotiator” said that “Palestinian Authority leaders are disappointed with what they heard in a private meeting” with Obama.
Is there any reason readers should blindly trust Klein or his sources? No. Klein is an inveterate Obama-hater who, as we’ve noted, is using Palestinians’ words against them to forward his own right-wing agenda. Further, he rarely uses named sources to advance his smears, which makes his “reporting” extremely suspect.
UPDATE: A March 24 WND article by Klein cites “a top Syrian official” and “informed Mideast security officials” to claim that “It was the Syrian opposition and not the Syrian government behind the firing Sunday and yesterday at the Israeli border” and that “it appears the rebels are attempting to create a humanitarian crisis to precipitate the deployment of NATO to fight the Assad regime.”