Ken Adelman over on FoxNews.com:

Arab Government No Strangers to Fiction

Among the most outrageous distortions, some of which were subsequently broadcast by the Western press:

-- Hassan Asfor, a Palestinian spokesman, told BBC radio that the Israeli Defense Force had broken into Arafat's office and that Arafat’s office was "on the brink of disaster." His office was never broken into.

-- The Italian and French media picked up an April 2, Palestinian television report that the Palestinian leadership announced that a priest, Jacques Amathis, had been killed and dozens of monks wounded in an IDF action in Bethlehem. The announcement in the West created outcries of protests in Europe. Yet the very next day, Father Amathis was interviewed and confirmed that he and the monks in the monastery were safe and well.

-- On April 3, Chairman Arafat told Al Jazeera, the television network watched across the Arab world, that Israel had "burned the mosque" opposite Santa Maria Church in Bethlehem and "destroyed many churches and mosques." He called upon the Christian and Muslim world to take action. None of it happened. All of this was creating truth.

-- In an interview with Abu Dhabi television on March 29, Arafat told of an "incident in Hebron, that insolent and criminal incident; [the IDF] even attacked and killed in the Hebron area three members of the international force: two from Turkey and one of the nurses from Switzerland." The Turkish member of this force said in a later radio interview that the attack had been carried out by a uniformed Palestinian.

The beat, as always, goes on.