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Source: http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=144&x_article=3816
Bethlehem Fiction in National Geographic
(CAMERA) Tamar Sternthal - National Geographic published an interview on Bethlehem with Nicholas Blincoe, a novelist. Among Blincoe's numerous falsehoods are claims that Bethlehem is the source of water for Jerusalem (it isn't), that there were no tourists in the city for ten years after an Israeli incursion (that decade included record-setting years in tourism to Bethlehem), and that "Palestinian cities got wiped out" during Israel's Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 (not a single city was "wiped out"). Following contact from CAMERA, National Geographic corrected some errors.