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...When Fisk called CNN to ask for a comment on its use of this terminology, he said the the network declined to discuss the matter...
...example of obscuring of facts, Fisk cited a memorandum that CNN sent to its correspondents instructing them to substitute the term “settlement” with the “cozier” term “neighborhood” in reference to a particular community in Israel...
...word “settlement” connotes Israeli imperialism in Palestine, Fisk said—a view that he suggested the American government would rather avoid...
...Fisk said that the settlement referred to in the memorandum had been unlawfully constructed in an area inhabited primarily by Palestinians in violation of United Nations resolutions...
...earth would anyone want to attack a neighborhood?” asked Fisk, arguing that such terminology has the effect of making Palestinian violence seem inexplicable...