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The Right of Self Defense

A search of the media aggregator Factiva finds that the five US newspapers with the highest circulation — the  Wall Street Journal ,   USA Today , the  New York Times , the  Washington Post , and the   Los Angeles Times  — have run 343 articles this century containing the phrases “Israel’s right to self-defense,” “Israel has a right to defend itself,” or “Israel’s right to defend itself.” Querying the same outlets in the same period for “Palestinian right to self-defense,” “Palestinians have a right to defend themselves,” or variations of “Palestinians’ right to defend themselves,” produces just two results, nearly identical pieces about an ex-guard at a US Air Force base reputed to have said that Palestinians have such a right. Palestinians Have the Right to Defend Themselves