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Article: The Jerusalem Post moves to the middle: The paper seems more willing
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- Cleveland Jewish News
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- December 6, 1996
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Nechemia Meyers
Cleveland Jewish News
12-06-1996
The Jerusalem Post moves to the middle: The paper seems more willing to. criticize the Orthodox, Netanyahu.
When David Bar-Ilan left the editorship of The Jerusalem Post to become one of Prime Minister Netanyahu's closest advisers, the powers that be at the Post decided that the time had come for the paper to move from the right to somewhere near the center of Israeli politics.
The new editor, 35-year-old, English-born Jeff Barak, prefers to downplay the changes. He argues that the paper, which was very critical of the Oslo Agreements during Bar-Ilan's reign, "Is simply treating the agreements as a fait accompli, in the same way that Netanyahu ...