If a reader has to rely on the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, the best one can hope for is distortion. A recent news brief published by Wafa, summarised from Agence France-Presse, selected a sliver of US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken’s speech to J Street – the liberal pro-Israel group which sees no contradiction between Jewish and democratic, and which advocates for the two-state compromise – and reframed it as determination on behalf of the US to oppose Israel’s settlement expansion. Under the headline “US Secretary of State vows to oppose Israeli settlements and annexation of occupied West Bank land”, Wafa quoted Blinken stating, “we will also continue to unequivocally oppose any acts that undermine the prospects of a … Continue reading The PA’s official news agency works against Palestinian interests