This is very true! Maybe the fact that there ARE two sides to the story, neither completely right or wrong, is the point ?

It is admittedly very difficult to write a completely unbiased paragraph about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the initial article-- [sorry, I'm not up to snuff on semantics here with wikipedia]-- reached by an outsider doing a casual search could be a statement that the conflict exists between whom, where, when...etc. ...and certain factual info re treaties, etc. then a link to the individual sides' position?

Pat

We're trying. It's very difficult, because each side insists that their
version is
unbiased, and there's little agreement even on the facts, let alone the
meanings.

>But since this is an encyclopedia I would expect to find an unbiased
>account of the background of the Palestinian/Israeli
>situation--"encyclopedia" suggests definition...if I want opinions I will
>turn to monographs or other sources clearly identifiable as opinion.

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