
Friday, November 27, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Elder of Ziyon
Tomer Ilan
Business Insider wrote an article about Israel's assassination of an Al Qaeda official in Tehran. Originally it said:
He wrote to BI informing them that Al Qaeda did attack Israelis with a 2008 attack on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania and 2002 Mombasa attacks against Israeli targets. (Since then he also found a third attack, the 2009 murder of Yafim Weinstein.)
Commendably, Business Insider corrected the article:
Tomer wonders if the initial claim that AQ never attacked Israel came from some common Arab memes, like these:

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