Sunday Democrat · 18 October 2015
CP-2015-022
U.S. military chairman in Israel amid violence
By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press
Transcribed from the clipping
The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in Jerusalem for talks with senior Israeli leaders, as violence spikes around the country. This is U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford's first overseas trip since taking the job Oct. 1. He will meet with Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, the commander-in-chief of the Israel Defense Forces and others. Navy Capt.
Greg Hicks says the latest violence may come up in meetings, but Dunford's visit was long-planned and his goal is to meet his Israeli counterparts and reaffirm America's commitment to Israel. He also will visit other countries in the region.
The violence has been fueled in part by Palestinian fears that Israel is trying to expand its presence at a major Muslim-run shrine in Jerusalem. Israel denies that claim.
How this transcription was made
Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping.
Context added by this archive
Whole item transcribed. This is the Dunford story run as its own standalone item with a byline (Lolita C. Baldor), on the same page and the same day as the Aaron Heller stabbing story on slide 22.
Compared with the version on slide 21 (s021_2), this cut drops all the Palestinian casualty reporting and instead ends with a causal sentence the other versions do not carry: "The violence has been fueled in part by Palestinian fears that Israel is trying to expand its presence at a major Muslim-run shrine in Jerusalem.
Israel denies that claim." So the same wire feed, in the same paper on the same day, produced one item where Eisenkot is a diary entry on an American general's itinerary and a second item, inches away, counting the Palestinian dead — and the two never touch. A photograph of Joseph Dunford in uniform runs at the right, captioned simply "Joseph Dunford".
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"U.S. military chairman in Israel amid violence," Sunday Democrat, 18 October 2015. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2015-022. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2015-022
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