salon is not a source without its pov biases and it certainly had a number of ideological axes to grind including most pertinently a willingness to tar and feather any and all arab and islamic peoples as barbarians and a totally uncritical way of looking at the israel palestine conflict accepting their claims as the total truth is certainly problematic it is made even more so when there isn't a way to actually check the veracity of the claim not being able to read the article because of their damned clickthrough ads i would personally appreciate if someone could post the section of the article in question for the time being salon claims is certainly the npov way to go