Corrections log

How to read this log

Each entry gives the page, what it said before, what it says now and the source the correction rests on. The full source, with its link, is in the source list of the corrected page. The log records corrections of fact only, not edits of style.

The log covers two rounds, both dated 8 October 2026. The first followed a reading of the whole site from six points of view: a historian, an educator and a young reader, once from the Israeli side and once from the Arab and Palestinian side. The second was a further review of the agreements, people and pages, in which the texts were also made shorter; its entries are at the top of each list. To say it plainly: these readings were carried out by the site’s editors with the help of an AI model, and they are not a substitute for named outside reviewers.

Agreements and processes

The Jarring mission and the Rogers plans (1967–1971): Before: The Rogers Plan of December 1969 was said to call for Israel’s return to “the pre-war lines”. Now: It called for a return to the 1949 armistice lines, with insubstantial changes. Rests on: Office of the Historian, “The 1973 Arab-Israeli War”.
The Sinai Disengagement Agreements (1974–75): Before: The page did not name Israel’s signatories of the 1975 Interim Agreement. Now: It names Mordechai Gazit and General Herzl Shafir, who signed in Geneva on 4 September 1975, with General Siilasvuo of the UN as witness. Rests on: JTA report (Detroit Jewish News, 5 September 1975); UN document S/11818/Add.2; the Mordechai Gazit memorial site (family site).
Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty (1979): Before: The page referred to “an Israeli minister’s remarks about Sinai” on 7 October 2026. Now: It names the minister, Bezalel Smotrich. Rests on: The Jerusalem Post, 7 October 2026.
Oslo I (1993): Before: The page said Rabin and Arafat shook hands and spoke at the ceremony of 13 September 1993, citing the text of the recognition letters. Now: It says the Declaration was signed in their presence. Rests on: UN Division for Palestinian Rights, Chronological Review, September 1993.
The PLO’s road to accepting two states (1974–1988): Before: On Ma’alot in 1974 the page said only “dozens taken hostage and a number of them killed”. Now: On 15 May 1974, 25 of the hostages were murdered, 22 of them children. Rests on: Jewish Virtual Library, “Ma'alot Massacre”.
Oslo II (1995): Before: The page gave a first-phase split of about 3% Area A, 23–25% Area B and 72–74% Area C, resting on Wikipedia. Now: Those figures were removed; the later split, according to B’Tselem and OCHA, stays. Rests on: B’Tselem; UN OCHA.
The New York Declaration (2025): Before: The page said Canada, France and the UK “criticised the E1 construction project” in September 2026. Now: On 8 September 2026 they announced bans on importing settlement goods. Security Council Report separately describes Israeli tenders in E1, which a senior UN official called an existential threat to the two-state solution. Rests on: Security Council Report, October 2026 Monthly Forecast.
The Gaza ceasefire (2025): Before: The death toll ended at the ceasefire count (67,869). Now: It adds that UNRWA, citing Gaza’s health authorities, counted 73,914 by 24 September 2026. Rests on: Security Council Report, October 2026.
The Clinton Parameters (2000): Before: The Taba talks were dated only “January 2001”, which placed them out of date order. Now: They are dated from 21 January 2001. Rests on: Institute for Palestine Studies, “The Taba Negotiations”.
Annapolis and the Olmert–Abbas talks (2008), and the comparison table on “Options for the future”: Before: The refugee and security positions in Olmert’s offer were shown as unknown. Now: They are given as reported: Olmert 5,000 refugees over five years, Abbas 150,000 over ten; Israel sought forces inside the Palestinian state and the Palestinians refused. Rests on: Nathan Thrall, The New York Review of Books, 15 August 2013.
Israel–Lebanon Agreement (1983): Before: The page said “Lebanon’s parliament revoked the agreement again, unanimously, on 21 May 1987”. Now: The sentence was removed because it could not be verified. Rests on: Christian Science Monitor, 6 March 1984, on the abrogation of 5 March 1984.
Israel–Lebanon Agreement (1983): Before: Israel’s withdrawal was described as “conditional on a parallel withdrawal of Syrian forces”. Now: It was conditional on Syrian and Palestinian forces leaving too. Rests on: Office of the Historian.
Israel–Lebanon Agreement (1983): Before: “A truck bomb at the US Marine barracks killed 241”. Now: Suicide bombers attacked the US and French barracks, killing 241 American servicemen; the Reagan administration believed Shia militants linked to Iran were behind it. Rests on: Office of the Historian.
Israel–Lebanon maritime boundary agreement (2022): Before: “The wars of 2024 and 2026 broke out after it”. Now: Rounds of war between Israel and Hezbollah came after it. Rests on: Times of Israel, on Hezbollah fire from 8 October 2023.
Israel–Syria peace talks (1991–2008): Before: The end of the Shepherdstown talks carried the note “(ECF dates the end to 11 January)”. Now: On 10 January 2000 the talks went into a recess; they were due to resume on 19 January, but never did. Rests on: CNN transcript, 10 January 2000; Center for Israel Education.
Sudan and the Abraham Accords (2020): Before: For 23 October 2020 the page said “Trump announces that Sudan will normalize”. Now: A joint statement by Trump, Netanyahu, al-Burhan and Hamdok: normalization and an end to the state of belligerence. Rests on: White House text, via the Jewish Virtual Library.
The Sinai Disengagement Agreements (1974–75): Before: Yitzhak Rabin was listed as the only Israeli leader for both agreements. Now: The January 1974 agreement was made while Golda Meir was prime minister; Rabin became prime minister in June 1974 and led only the 1975 Interim Agreement. Rests on: Meir’s Knesset statement of 30 May 1974 (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs text); the Nobel Prize biography of Rabin.
Israel–Syria Disengagement Agreement (1974): Before: The page named no Israeli leader. Now: The agreement was negotiated by Golda Meir’s government and presented by her to the Knesset on 30 May 1974; Rabin’s government took office only afterwards. Rests on: The same sources as the entry above.
Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty (1979): Before: “14 settlements” in Sinai was stated as a bare fact. Now: Israel gave up every settlement in Sinai; the figure 14 is given as the Jewish Virtual Library’s count, with a note that no primary source was found. Rests on: Jewish Virtual Library, “The Yamit Evacuation”.
Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty (1979): Before: The page cited “another source” attributing Sadat’s assassination to Takfir wal-Hijra. Now: The sentence and its source were removed; the page gives only the Egyptian Islamic Jihad attribution. Rests on: The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies profile.
The 1949 Armistice Agreements: Before: The page said as fact that “the Arab states were not ready to recognise Israel or sign a peace”. Now: It gives each side’s position as recorded by the UN Conciliation Commission, and says the armistice lines were drawn without prejudice to either side’s claims. Rests on: The Egypt–Israel armistice text; the Fourth Progress Report of the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine (A/992).
Israel–Lebanon Agreement (1983): Before: The page omitted the Sabra and Shatila massacre and the Kahan Commission. Now: Both are on the page, with the commission’s findings on Israel’s indirect responsibility and on Ariel Sharon. Rests on: The Kahan Commission report; the Office of the Historian.
Taba talks (2001): Before: Miguel Moratinos was listed under “signed as witness”. Now: Nothing was signed at Taba; he was the EU envoy, an outside observer who later wrote the non-paper. Rests on: Institute for Palestine Studies, “The Taba Negotiations”.
Oslo I (1993) and the Gaza–Jericho Agreement (1994): Before: The Hebron massacre of 25 February 1994 was described as “an Israeli citizen massacred worshippers”, with no name, no number and without the word terror. Now: A terror attack by Baruch Goldstein, a settler from Kiryat Arba and follower of Kach, in which 29 worshippers were murdered; Israel declared Kach and Kahane Chai terrorist organisations on 13 March 1994. Rests on: Palestine-Israel Journal 1:3 (1994); Christian Science Monitor, 14 March 1994.
Letters of Mutual Recognition (1993): Before: “Until 1993 Israel and the PLO did not recognise each other” skipped the PLO’s own earlier steps. Now: The page adds the 1974 programme, the Algiers declaration of 15 November 1988, Arafat’s Geneva statements and the opening of the US–PLO dialogue in December 1988. Rests on: Rashid Khalidi, Journal of Palestine Studies; UN Division for Palestinian Rights (1989).
The Clinton Parameters (2000): Before: The page said only that the Israeli reservations were not spelled out. Now: It adds that Israel’s security cabinet conditionally accepted the ideas as a basis for discussion on 28 December 2000. Rests on: RTÉ News and PBS NewsHour, 28 December 2000.
Disengagement from the Gaza Strip (2005): Before: The page said the sides reached no arrangement on the crossings. Now: The Agreement on Movement and Access was reached on 15 November 2005 and was mostly not implemented. Rests on: A UN OCHA report; the Economic Cooperation Foundation.
Disengagement from the Gaza Strip (2005): Before: The shootings of 4 and 17 August 2005 were described as “shooting attacks”. Now: Both are called terror attacks: four Arab citizens of Israel murdered in Shfaram, and four Palestinian workers shot dead at Shilo. Rests on: Congressional Research Service; Washington Times; Ynet.
Disengagement from the Gaza Strip (2005): Before: “A blockade was imposed”, with no actor named. Now: Israel imposed the blockade and Egypt closed the Rafah crossing. Rests on: Al Jazeera; RFE/RL.
The Roadmap (2003): Before: The status read “proposal, never adopted”. Now: Accepted by the Palestinian Authority, approved by Israel’s cabinet on 25 May 2003 with 14 reservations, endorsed by Security Council Resolution 1515, and not implemented. Rests on: The Institute for Palestine Studies chronology; the Economic Cooperation Foundation; the UN.
Arab Peace Initiative (2002): Before: The page gave only the Israeli claim that the Arab League never sent a delegation. Now: It adds that the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan came to Israel on the League’s behalf on 25 July 2007. Rests on: NPR.
The Geneva Initiative (2003): Before: The Palestinian criticism rested on Wikipedia. Now: It rests on a Fatah statement of 1 December 2003; two claims that only Wikipedia supported were removed. Rests on: A BADIL press release.
The Gaza ceasefire (2025): Before: The Gaza death toll was in the passive voice, with a double caveat about reliability. Now: The page names who killed and who counted, with one caveat. Rests on: NPR; Reuters.

People

Mahmoud Abbas: Before: The card said Hamas “has controlled” the Gaza Strip since June 2007. Now: Hamas took control in June 2007, and in July 2026 dissolved its governing committee in Gaza; administration passed to a technocratic committee under the US-backed “Gaza Peace Council”. Rests on: Al Jazeera, “Timeline: 20 years of Hamas rule in Gaza”, 8 July 2026.
Jimmy Carter: Before: The card said a dispute with Begin over “commitments on settlements” was “dealt with in the letters accompanying the Camp David Accords”. Now: He clashed with Begin over the settlements wording, and the fate of the Sinai settlements was left to the Knesset in letters attached to the accords. Rests on: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, vol. IX, document 57.
Miguel Ángel Moratinos: Before: The card called his paper “the only detailed record” of the Taba talks. Now: It says he wrote the European summary of the talks. Rests on: UNISPAL, the EU non-paper on Taba.
Ariel Sharon: Before: The sentence on the outbreak of the Second Intifada cited a source that does not contain it. Now: It is cited to the Mitchell Report, with the committee’s finding on the visit. Rests on: Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Report (the Mitchell Report), Jewish Virtual Library text.
Menachem Begin: Before: The context for the 1982 Lebanon war gave only Israeli casualties. Now: It also gives the Lebanese police figure (19,085 killed between 4 June and 31 August 1982, all nationalities, civilians and fighters together), the Sabra and Shatila massacre and the Kahan findings. Rests on: Christian Science Monitor, 21 December 1982; the Kahan Commission report.
Yasser Arafat: Before: The card began in 1993 and showed the blame for Camp David 2000 through American accounts only. Now: It begins in 1974 and includes the PLO’s and Ehud Barak’s accounts. Rests on: UN documents; the PLO negotiations department; Barak’s interview with Benny Morris.
Moshe Dayan: Before: There was no mention of his role as defence minister or of the dispute over policy before the 1973 war. Now: Both were added. Rests on: Foreign Relations of the United States; an H-Diplo essay by Craig Daigle.

Pages

The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: “In 1974 gunmen of the Democratic Front seized a school in Ma’alot, and 26 people were killed”. Now: Gunmen of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized the school; according to the Jewish Virtual Library, they murdered 25 hostages, 22 of them children. Rests on: Jewish Virtual Library, “Ma'alot Massacre”.
Why peace?: Before: The East Mediterranean Gas Forum’s members were listed “alongside Greece, Cyprus and Italy”, without France. Now: Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, with Cyprus, Greece, Italy and France. Rests on: The forum’s list of members (emgf.org).
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: “In 1978 a Fatah squad hijacked a bus on the coastal road and killed 37 Israelis”. Now: A squad led by Dalal Mughrabi; 38 civilians were murdered, 13 of them children, according to Israel’s foreign ministry. Rests on: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the 32nd anniversary of the Coastal Road massacre (2010).
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: “More than 60” Jews were said to have been murdered in Hebron on 24 August 1929. Now: In Hebron 67 Jews were murdered. Rests on: Jewish Virtual Library, “The Hebron Massacre of 1929”.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: Refugee estimates were given as UNCCP 711,000, UNRWA 726,000 and Abu Sitta more than 800,000, and village counts as Morris 369 and Abu Sitta 531. Now: Just over 700,000 (a UN figure cited by Morris) to three-quarters of a million (Institute for Palestine Studies); All That Remains documents 418 villages, and other counts range from 290 to 472. Rests on: Israel Law Review 51(1) workshop; PalQuest, “Nakba” (Maher Charif); PalQuest, “About Places”.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: Killings of suspected collaborators were given as “771 (AP) to 942 (IDF)”. Now: By January 1994, 770 to 940, according to the Christian Science Monitor; B’Tselem said no reliable figures existed. Rests on: Christian Science Monitor, 10 January 1994.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: In Geneva in December 1988 Arafat was said to have “in effect recognised Israel within the 1967 lines”. Now: He accepted Resolutions 242 and 338, recognised Israel’s right to exist and renounced terrorism. Rests on: UN Division for Palestinian Rights, “Proposals and initiatives”, November 1988 to September 1989.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: Efraim Karsh was said to argue “that Arab leaders pressed the inhabitants to leave and that the expulsion from Lydda and Ramle arose from military necessity”. Now: He calls the claim that Israel was founded on the premeditated dispossession of the Arabs unfounded, and argues the documents show the reverse. Rests on: History News Network excerpt of Karsh in Commentary (2008).
Violence, terror and the damage to peace: Before: On the 1996 bombings the page said “It attributes the Ashkelon and Tel Aviv bombings to Hamas”. Now: JTA’s list attributes all four attacks to Hamas. Rests on: JTA, “A chronology of suicide bombings”.
Who lives across the border?: Before: On Lebanon the page said “In March 2026 war broke out again”. Now: On the night of 1 to 2 March 2026, after US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Hezbollah fired at Israel, and Israel answered with wide airstrikes. Rests on: Security Council Report, Lebanon, May 2026.
It has happened before: conflicts that became peace: Before: On Ecuador and Peru: “Only then did negotiations begin, and they lasted more than three years, in four joint commissions”. Now: In January 1998 the sides set up four joint commissions to break the deadlock. Rests on: Better Evidence Project case study, George Mason University.
It has happened before: conflicts that became peace: Before: Tiwinza was given to Ecuador “as private property without sovereignty”. Now: To own under Peruvian private law, with no sovereignty and no troops. Rests on: PA-X, “Propuesta definitiva de los Países Garantes”.
Peace with a neighbour, normalization with a distant state: what is the difference?: Before: The lead spoke of “normalization agreements with distant states that never fought it”. Now: Normalization agreements with more distant states with which it shares no border. Rests on: The Abraham Accords documents.
It has happened before: conflicts that became peace: Before: On Northern Ireland: “a faction opposed to the agreement killed 29 people in Omagh”. Now: The breakaway Real IRA murdered 29 people in Omagh. Rests on: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Good Friday Agreement”.
Glossary: Before: The entry on the International Criminal Court said only that in November 2024 the court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif. Now: It adds that in February 2025 the warrant for Deif was withdrawn, after prosecutors reported reliable information that he had been killed. Rests on: JusticeInfo.net (AFP), 26 February 2025.
Glossary: Before: The entry on the Palestinian Authority said it “runs civil life and policing in Areas A and B”. Now: It runs civil life in Areas A and B, and security in Area A. Rests on: The Economic Cooperation Foundation’s summary of Oslo II.
Symbols, speeches and moments: Before: On the Abraham Accords ceremony: “The Palestinians rejected the accords”. Now: The Palestinian leadership rejected the accords. Rests on: CBC/AP, 15 September 2020.
Nobel Peace Prize laureates: Before: On Yitzhak Rabin: “In the rescue attempt an officer and three of the captors were killed”. Now: An officer was killed in the rescue attempt, and the hostage was found dead. Rests on: AFP, via Malay Mail, 4 October 2024.
It has happened before: conflicts that became peace: Before: The page said Sadat “went to Jerusalem and paid with his life”. Now: He was assassinated four years later, and the visit and the treaty were among his assassins’ motives, not the only one. Rests on: The James Martin Center profile.
Peace with a neighbour, normalization with a distant state: what is the difference?: Before: “Fourteen settlements were evacuated” was stated as a bare fact. Now: The figure is attributed to the Jewish Virtual Library’s count. Rests on: Jewish Virtual Library.
Violence, terror and the damage to peace: Before: The account of Hebron 1994 described the perpetrator only as “an Israeli citizen”, with no death toll and no terror wording. Now: A terrorist massacre by a settler and follower of Kach, in which 29 worshippers were murdered. Rests on: Al Jazeera, 27 February 2005; Christian Science Monitor, 14 March 1994.
Violence, terror and the damage to peace: Before: The Gaza death toll was in the passive voice, with no actor. Now: Israeli military operations in Gaza killed, according to the Health Ministry there, at least 67,869 Palestinians, among them 20,179 children. Rests on: NPR, 13 October 2025.
Who lives across the border?: Before: The Palestinian capital was given only as “seat of administration in Ramallah”. Now: The declared capital is Jerusalem (1988 Declaration of Independence), the claim is to East Jerusalem, and the seat of government is Ramallah. Rests on: The text of the declaration (PalQuest); the political communiqué of the Palestine National Council (UN document A/43/827).
And what does the world want?: Before: The withdrawal clause of Resolution 242 was paraphrased without noting the dispute. Now: It is marked as disputed and linked to the page on Resolution 242. Rests on: The text of Resolution 242.
Songs of peace: Before: The “Songs in Arabic” group held three Israeli or joint productions. Now: These moved to a “Shared songs” group; the Arabic group now has Mawtini, Ummi and Helwa Ya Baladi beside the two Fairuz songs. Rests on: No source needed; this is a change of classification.
Israel and the Jewish people: roots, memory and choosing life: Before: The page said the Yishuv accepted partition and war followed, without saying that Palestinian displacement began before the state was declared. Now: It gives Benny Morris’s figures for December 1947 to June 1948 and the expulsions from Lydda and Ramle. Rests on: Israel Law Review 51(1), 2018.
Israel and the Jewish people: roots, memory and choosing life: Before: Ben-Gurion was presented only as an inspiration. Now: The page states the government decision of 16 June 1948 against the refugees’ return and Morris’s assessment of his position. Rests on: The same source as the entry above.
Israel and the Jewish people: roots, memory and choosing life: Before: There was no mention of the military government over Israel’s Arab citizens. Now: The page states that it lasted from 1948 until 8 November 1966. Rests on: The Economic Cooperation Foundation.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: The 1948 departures were described only as “flight from fear and fighting, and expulsion”. Now: The page names Deir Yassin, the expulsions from Lydda and Ramle, the destroyed localities, the bar on return and the Absentees’ Property Law. Rests on: Institute for Palestine Studies (PalQuest); Adalah.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: The Sabra and Shatila massacre appeared without saying who carried it out. Now: Lebanese Phalangist militiamen, in an area under Israeli military control; the Kahan Commission found Israel indirectly responsible. Rests on: The Kahan Commission report.
The Palestinian story: belonging, loss and the hope for freedom: Before: The account of the 2005 disengagement implied a full Israeli exit from Gaza. Now: The page adds that Israel kept control of Gaza’s borders, coast and airspace. Rests on: UN, “History of the Question of Palestine”.
Both story pages: “Israel and the Jewish people” and “The Palestinian story”: Before: The entry of Arab states’ armies in May 1948 was worded differently in Arabic (“entered”) and in Hebrew and English (“invaded”). Now: One wording in all three languages, which gives both names for the event. Rests on: No source needed; this is a matter of consistency.
Timeline: Before: The 1948 row named only “the 1948 war”. Now: It names both memories: the War of Independence and the Nakba. Rests on: No source needed; this is a change of wording.