Mideast Media Sampler 1/6/12: Media vs Santorum on and Israel, The Peace Treaty The Left Wants To Trash

From DG:

1) Santorum and Israel through Mackey's distorted lens

Robert Mackey who blogs at The Lede for the New York Times hasn't yet addressed the problem that he periodically relies on an unreliable source. Though his own credibility is suspect, Mackey, yesterday turned his attention to Rick Santorum.

Writing in The Jewish Week on Monday, Douglas Bloomfield reminded readers that Mr. Santorum told a man in Iowa six weeks ago that “all the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis. They’re not Palestinians — there is no Palestinian — this is Israeli land.”

A video of the exchange, which was recorded by CNN, shows that Mr. Santorum responded to a question about whether or not Israel “should dismantle its settlements” by suggesting that the West Bank was as much a part of Israel as Texas and New Mexico are part of the United States. The entire territory, Mr. Santorum added, “is legitimately Israeli country,” so Israelis “have a right to build things based upon their ownership of that land.”

The first part of the Santorum statement is confused, but it's hardly identical to saying that the entire territory is "Israeli country."

Mackey continues: