San Francisco Chronicle · San Francisco, California · 23 April 2002
CP-2002-010
Ex-ambassador calls Arafat obstructionist
Clinton envoy fuels criticism in Congress
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington bureau
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Former U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross “said Yasser Arafat rejected a peace deal last year.” And, quoted against him: “Some in this town say, ‘Well, the Palestinians deserve it. They brought it onto themselves, because they were offered a very generous deal in Camp David, and they rejected it.’ And this lie…”
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The frame and its rebuttal inside one news story, both attributed.
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"Ex-ambassador calls Arafat obstructionist," San Francisco Chronicle, 23 April 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-010
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