By appending “with Palestine” to the media’s long misportrayal, as Israel’s pre-1967 war “borders,” of what Israel and Jordan in 1949 had expressly defined as being only military ceasefire lines, the New York Times last Friday went beyond the media’s long effort to imbue those 1949 lines with a “borders” permanence transcending that of military ceasefire lines rendered void by renewed fighting between the same sides.

The “with Palestine” addendum tried to purvey the further misimpression that “Palestine” was an existing state with international borders in 1949.

That there was no such state of “Palestine” in 1949, or in 1967, was made plain by the June 10, 1967, post-Six-Day-War news article shown in your first posting that said Israel “may try to keep some Jordanian [n.b.] territory west of the Jordan River.”

Perhaps, your first posting had a hand in stopping this “with Palestine” addendum before it became settled media usage. Thank you.

These are not borders, they were cease fire lines. With no agreements, no recognition, nothing- these are not borders.

the nyt has abandoned everything but the pretense of adherence to journalistic ethics; one doubts that its employees even know what those standards actually are. the nyt is now only and openly a conduit for advocacy, not for reportage, not for analysis, not for any engagement with the facts. it is a medium committed to lies. it is a disgrace.