BuzzFeed’s New Middle East Correspondent Keeps Getting Israel Wrong

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Sheera Frenkel, Buzzfeed’s recently-hired Middle East correspondent, should know the Israel beat better than most: She reported from the country for more than seven years, speaks Hebrew fluently, and knows Israeli society intimately.

Yet after the Geneva agreement was announced, she filed a piece headlined, “Stung By Iranian Nuclear Deal, Netanyahu Prepares For Fallout At Home.” The article proposed that Israelis would blame their prime minister for the fact that President Obama signed a bad deal with Iran over his strenuous objections.

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