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	The '''Bogus Moshe Ya'alon quotation''' is a "notorious" remark falsely attributed to Israeli General ].<ref name="TheStar">''Damaging Israeli misquote finally corrected, Record set straight seven years after Israel's top soldier was accused of trashing Palestinians,'' Toronto Star, Aug 08, 2009, Oakland Ross, </ref> According to the ], "It’s the kind of quote that makes readers sit up and pay attention." But, "Yaalon never uttered those words."<ref name="Columbia">''Don’t (Mis)quote Me; The demise of an error that refused to die,'' By ]. Aug. 14, 2009, Columbia Journalism Review, </ref>

	According to an investigation by the ], the alleged Ya'alon quote, "The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people," first appeared in 2002, but "Yaalon did not say what he is supposed to have said."<ref name="TheStar" />

	The Star investigation concluded that that Ya'alon "certainly," did not utter these words during the 2002 interview with ], a ] reporter, although this interview is widely cited as the original source of the remark.<ref name ="TheStar" />

	The Star cites the incident as "a case study in a seldom-examined aspect of popular culture in the electronic age – the self-replicating propagation of erroneous information."<ref name="TheStar"/>

	According to the Toronto Star, in the 2002 interview in Haaretz, during which Ya'alon is supposed to have uttered the false quotation, the general Yaalon was actually been trying to make an entirely different point about what would define an Israeli victory in the conflict with the Palestinians. "I defined it from the beginning of the confrontation – the very deep internalization by the Palestinians that terrorism and violence will not defeat us, will not make us fold."<ref name="TheStar" />



	==Detection of the falsehood==

	The Columbia Journalism Review attributes the detection of the false quotation to the media watchdog group, The ], or CAMERA.<ref name="Columbia" />

	The ] began an investigation of the quotation after ] professor ] published the bogus quotation in an op-ed piece for The ], and was obliged to print a correction.<ref name="TheStar" />

	Gilead Ini, a researcher with ] believes that the error began with ], an academic and Middle East pundit once associated with the ], a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. In an article published in Dec., 2003 in ], Siegman wrote of Ya'alon as "the official who had formerly talked of how war would `sear deep' into Palestinian consciousness that they are a defeated people." In that article, the only the words "sear deep" appeared in quotation marks. However, in an article in the ] in Aug., 2007, Siegman placed the entire phrase in quotation marks, attributing it to General Ya'alon.<ref name="TheStar" />

	==Publication of the quote==

	The quotation, with minor variations, has appeared in broadcast news, on blogs, and in articles in publications including the ], ], ], ], the and the ].<ref name="TheStar" /><ref name="Columbia" /> These reputable publications have issued corrections.<ref name="CAMERA" />

	The bogus quote was cited by academic experts on the Middle East, including Professor ], who published it seven times.<ref name="CAMERA">Demise of a Hoax Quote: CAMERA Prompts Article in Toronto Star, Corrections on Ya’alon Statement, Aug. 14, 2009, CAMERA </ref>

	The Toronto Star published the bogus quote in a 2004 article by columnist ]. According to Siddiqui, "The statement attributed to (Yaalon) was not just in the blogosphere but was widely quoted in mainstream, respected publications," furthermore "There had been no correction or clarification sought or given that I was aware of. So I had no reason to think it was not a valid quote."<ref name="TheStar" = />

	] published a version of Siegman's phrase, "It will be seared deep into the consciousness of Palestinians that they are a defeated people," attributing it to Ya'alon, in February of 2009.<ref name="TheStar" /> The Columbia Journalism Review chastised Time for publishing a correction that implied that the quotation might be real although no source could be found for it.<ref name="Columbia" />

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