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A Step in the Right Direction: New York Times Describes Palestinian Claims to West Bank Land as "Claims"
(CAMERA) After several months of referring to settlement lands and the rest of the West Bank as "Palestinian territory," the New York Times in recent weeks has shifted to more objective descriptions of these disputed lands. To assign the entire West Bank to one side or the other in the Palestinian-Israeli dispute ignores international agreements signed by both parties that assert the status of the land is to be negotiated. A serious newspaper is expected to report impartially on the dispute, not to adjudicate it. Recent stories have avoided language that assigns all of the West Bank to the Palestinians. A story published online last Friday, for example, accurately described the Palestinian claim to the whole territory as just that: a claim, informing readers that "the Palestinians claim the West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war, as part of a future independent state."