The headline of Aaron Klein’s Feb. 10 article states “Obama, Soros create ‘Palestine’.”
Wrong — not even Klein’s article does that. Rather, it obsesses over semantics:
In partnership with a government fund initiated by Barack Obama, philanthropist and billionaire activist George Soros is investing in a private equity company that just launched in the Palestinian territories.
The company, Siraj Fund Management Company, says it was created “for the sole purpose of managing investment funds in Palestine.”
The new company’s website repeatedly refers to what it calls the “country” of “Palestine.” There is, however, no such country as Palestine. Siraj is apparently referring to territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
There is no “creation” of Palestine by Obama and Soros — a fund management company that has received investment money from Soros and from an initiative “to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries” announced by Obama in 2009 (under the auspices of a government-operated development finance institution, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, that was founded in 1971) has chosen to use the word “Palestine” to describe the area where it will be managing funds, perhaps because Klein’s suggested construct of “territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority” doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue.
If we can’t blame the headline’s lie on Klein, we can still blame him for some fundamental dishonesty. He repeats his misleading claim that a report issued by a Soros-funded group “urges the Egyptian regime to allow the [Muslim Brotherhood] to participate in political life” without also noting that the report also called for the Brotherhood to moderate its views.