An article in a popular pro-Communist newspaper questioned Israel’s right to exist. The article in Sovietskaya Rossiya also said “the armed settlers on Palestinian lands are straightforward occupiers, and the blows struck against them by Palestinian suicide bombers are a legitimate punishment.”
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The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.