Nahalaot Retraction
I posted a link yesterday that someone sent me to a JPost story. The JPost had the article dated for August 1, 2012. Honestly I am not sure if they are having a problem with their dating system or if it was just a slow news day and they needed filler. However, the article was actually initially run in January. So this is me saying, I was wrong.
I want to say thank you to the folks who brought that to my attention, and especially those who sent me links to the original posting(which apparently the JPost ran a few times in January).
I have heard it said that trust is something that is hard earned and easily lost. Well as of today the JPost has lost mine. I ask your forgiveness for having relied on them. I truly thought that they were a trustworthy source of information. As it stands the best piece of verifiable information that I now have is that three men, acted in concert(which I still consider to be a ring, just a small one), in molesting children. This is verifiable through official Israeli Court documents(sorry no English translation).
Beyond that, I have no verifiable information as to the current goings on, and after this mess up with the JPost, I will only be posting things about this that I can personally verify, through official sources. Which means, as I currently have no spare time, I will not be posting on this further.
“Well as of today the JPost has lost mine. I ask your forgiveness for having relied on them.”
To explain why I do not believe in your modesty or humbleness: every time you admit making a mistake, you really blame someone else.
Well stick around. Maybe I’ll win you over.
PS. I’m not blaming anyone else. Anything that goes up on this blog is fully my responsibility, whether it be a post or a comment. I made the post. I removed the post, and I take full responsibility to the misleading post.
Hence the first paragraph of the that post. I rambled on about the JPost, partially because they shouldn’t have reposted a story as though it were new, but mostly because under the new Google Panda every post needs to be a minimum of 250words, or your blog gets penalized, and the post becomes unsearchable.
Meaning that, since I posted the initial post, it would still be searchable, but a retraction of under 250 words would not have been searchable, and I wanted to make it searchable, because I still have people emailing me and asking me about the “three new pedophiles” that were arrested.
Don’t worry, I’m sticking around, so I do not believe you are fundamentally evil, and I even saw some progress over the last 2 or 3 years.
but still, this gesture “I made a mistake because I believed those @*#§¢ from xxxx” is the epitomy of false humbleness, i.e. great hybris badly disguised as humbleness…
Ok. But that is not what I am saying. I am saying that I made a mistake, and I take full responsibility for said mistake.
If you feel that citing the source of the mistake, is false humility… I will consider that. However, I am not sure you are correct, especially as my initial post was simply the first 250 words from the article in question.
Unless one is fundamentally evil(or at least severely compromised on an issue) they are not intentionally making mistakes. Thus being able to identify where you made the mistake, and showing that to other people is part of the process of teshuva, as hopefully you will keep other people from making the same mistake.
In this case the mistake was because I relied on another source, and I didn’t check the facts. Someone else has to answer for an article from January being reposted as current news. I have to answer for not taking the time to check the facts, by at the very least calling the police. That is my mistake, and I take full responsibility for it.
Can you point to a place in this post where I do not say that I should have checked the facts and not simply relied upon someone else?
PPS- I don’t think you qualify as a troll. You are more of a semi-friendly critic.
wow, that’s definitely progress, since I was deemed a troll, but, a favourite one, in the past…