New York Times Coverage of Israel: What Comes After Ridiculously Biased?
– The author’s goal is to make readers say, “Those horrible Israelis are so mean and repressive, mistreating those poor people! We must do something!” And it is to make Jewish readers say, “We must distance ourselves from this evil country (or government) that so betrays basic Jewish principles of mercy and justice.” The former call for pressuring Israel in order to hurt it; the latter urge pressuring Israel for its own good and talk about a crisis of Zionism in producing such a terrible system.
In other words, this is not a news article but a work of political propaganda that could have been produced by a Palestinian public relations firm or an American Jewish group that acts as a Palestinian public relations firm. The purpose of this article is not to report or explain what is happening but to elicit sympathy and support for — shall I say it? well, it happens to be true — terrorist murderers or would-be murderers who were foiled despite their best efforts.
Let me again add that there is nothing “liberal” or “conservative” about these facts. Nothing at all. Pretending otherwise is another propagandistic thought-control effort to get people to deny reality in the guise of opposing horrible right-wingers. It comes from the type of people who can ignore the persecution of Christians in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, and other places in the Middle East while fabricating and highlighting claims that Israel is making Palestinian Christians flee.
Recently the Columbia Journalism Review, a publication I revered in my youth, published an article claiming that Israel had more journalists in prison per size of population than any other country in the world. This was totally false and the name of no actual journalist imprisoned was mentioned because there are none. Meanwhile, next door, the world has ignored the Palestinian Authority’s public campaign of suppressing and arresting journalists.
To its credit, after considerable criticism, the Columbia Journalism Review apologized for the article and criticized it. And do you know who wrote that cogent response? An editor who had experienced real repression of journalism in his home country, Iran.
At times we seem to be living in the updated version of Ignazio Silone’s remark, “The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.” All too often, we cannot depend on Western-trained intellectuals in positions of power who either buy into leftist ideology or tremble in fear of being called racists or Islamophobes. This highlights the importance of dissident Muslims and refugees from Middle Eastern tyrannies who have some immunity on those two points. Unfortunately, of course, they are outnumbered by the apologists and the conscious radicals sowing disinformation.
As for the Western world itself today, there seem to be two remaining groups: those who believe whatever they are fed in this manner and those who are so disgusted by such crimes against proper and honorable journalism that they respond by cancelling their subscriptions.
Rudoren arrived in Israel and started greeting everyone with the arabic ‘Shukran’. You’d think she was trolling for a little action from the wrong side of the tracks.
However, having seen a photo of her, I doubt she will succeed – now that the blind Sheik Yassin has gone to his virgins.
This is too important an issue for stupid, sexist comments. It is to PJ Media’s credit that the comments here are usually intelligent and to the point.
As for the Ny Times, I would cancel my subscription but I stopped reading most of the articles on Israel a long time ago. I am not a racist, Islamaphobe or even a right-winger but since I live in Israel I get beter and less biased coverage form the media here and I got too upset reading Tom Friedman, Roger Cohen et al and knowing so many Americans will read and blieve them
Golda I wonder how many still believe the likes of Tom Friedman & friends. Remember this is the guy who reported the Egyptian revolution consisted yuppie Facebook kids. One of the positive results of the media bias during the Obama election is that a decreased number of the public believes anything from news sources like the NYT.
BTW, with regard to American support, here in Scottsbluff, Nebraska I have encountered IDF and Jerusalem municipality flags flying from private homes, a salesgirl who was just Israel as a member of a Friends of Israel group, a wearer of an IDF t-shirts, and the entire population is either planning to visit or has already visited Israel as a member of a church group. I also encountered Christians who keep kosher as part of their Christianity and my boss practices Passover as part of his Christianity.
There is a lot of common sense people out here, I’m pretty sure the works of a Rudoren would draw skepticism at best.
How many of these nice Nebraskans (I know quite a few people like that in Texas, BTW) would even bother to read the NYSlimes in the first place? They would probably be so offended by the paper’s steady diet of left-liberal, anti-Christian propaganda and insufferable smugness that they’d throw it in the trash before they even got to the biased Israel coverage. So I’m not worried about the NYGuttersnipe’s effect on them.
The kind of people who read the NYSlimes because they agree with certain of its shibbolets (such as the glorification of “lifestyles” other than heterosexual marriage, socialized medicine,…) might actually find much to like about Israel if it were reported about honestly. It’s THOSE where the Izvestia Nyu-Iork does the most damage.
BTW, “Shukran” is not a greeting, but “Thank you”. If I met her during my Israel stays, I would greet her with “Shakran” (Hebrew for “liar”). or better still, I’d teach her that the proper polite greeting is “koos amak ya maniak!” (Arabic)
Better warn the PJ readers that “koos amak ya maniak” is not the phase one uses on friends one wants to keep or armed strangers. It refers to parts of the anatomy of one’s mother.
I was taught the phrase “Koos Amak” when I lived in Rehovot (right next to the new agricultural minister, Ariel Sharon) for a year in 1978. My understanding is that the first word is Hebrew (slang), the second is Arabic for “of your mother” or “belonging to your mother.” I’ll pass on the meaning of the first word as my fellow Virginia resident, Bob, has more or less intimated what it means.
But I will definitely second his point that, it’s a very crude saying. And really, you don’t want to learn this. But I always liked the “bi-national nature” of that particular curse phrase — I thought it so “forward thinking and Peace-process-like” back then, as a liberal basking in the glow of Sadat’s recent visit. It seemed like even the “dirty slang phrases” were making peace! How naive I was.
What a peaceful year though to live in Israel — there was nowhere we couldn’t go — no worry in any Arab town — places where I would dare step foot now-a-days! Of course the Sinai and Sharm el Sheik and Ras Muhammed were all in Israeli hands — it was an undiscovered paradise.
I remember reading — and I’m happy to be corrected if I’m incorrect — that immediately upon obtaining the Sinai back from Israel, Egyptian fisherman employed “dynamite fishing” — meaning they would set charges (I’m guessing) in the water right near these incredibly pristine coral reefs for which the tip of the Sinai is famous — whereby obtaining their fish, but destroying coral. I’m sure they didn’t destroy *all* the coral otherwise people wouldn’t be snorkeling still there. But I remember being shocked it even hear of the practice at all in such a delicate area.
So much changes though — I remember when the Bedouin in Sinai were actually nice and trustworthy (well, to an extent) — now they’re signing up to become Al Qaeda members and it’s become “wild west” territory. Way to go Egypt. (excuse my sarcasm).
Scottsbluff? How is Western Nebraska? Are there really Jews out there?
Well I am 50% of the Scottsbluff Jewish Community and I know a couple in Cheyenne who used to live in Crawford. The husband used to work on the Lakota Reservation and speaks Sioux. There used to be a couple families here but they died and the children moved away.
I’m from Omaha. We had a grand total of 5000 Jews in the city with three major synagogues and some minor ones. Many of the people I met in Nebraska never met a Jew before. Still I would get, “You don’t look like a Jew.”
“Recently the Columbia Journalism Review, a publication I revered in my youth, published an article claiming that Israel had more journalists in prison per size of population than any other country in the world.”
Maybe they really wanted to say that Israel has more western journalists sitting in the cushy cafes and pubs of Tel Aviv who take day trips to Ramallah per size of population than any other country in the world.
I have maintained for years that the real reason there is so much news about Israel is because it is the only place in the world a journalist can report from a war zone at 10, file a story at 11, have a good lunch at 12, be at a nude beach at 2, a movie at 5, a good dinner at 7 PM, a bar at 8, at a brothel at 9 and be able to do the same thing the next day with the prospect of a Pulitzer Prize.
The alternative for a journalist could involve dying alone in some third world pit stop no one has ever heard of for a story no one will read.
I saw the headline of this story in the NYTimes and didn’t read any further. I find it all very distressing, even appalling. There is no effort to find the truth. What can we do to combat these sick people who write with a skewered agenda, pretending to be newsmen? And these once venerable newspapers which actually love to print this blather?
There are two methods of reply. Large numbers of people should cancel their subscriptions, clearly and forcefully spelling out why. Secondly, we should tell the advertisers that we will no longer purchase goods from people who support a paper that is no more than the propaganda arm of terrorist organizations.
What we should demand is a return to real journalistic standards as they used to exist. Nothing less is acceptable.
“It comes from the type of people who can ignore the persecution of Christians in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, and other places in the Middle East while fabricating and highlighting claims that Israel is making Palestinian Christians flee.”
Exactly, and they accuse people who are better informed about the things which they don’t want to face up to of being ignorant and bigoted!
Thats just the beginning. Over here in Holland people are outraged because Jews resisted the plan to commemorate a fallen Waffen SS volunteer at the national remembrance day for the dead of WWII.
They say we are the ones who are filled with hate and understood nothing of the Holocaust. In another town the people decided they also wanted to honor dead Wehrmacht soldiers who also lie buried at their cemetery. This was also stopped by a Jewish group, causing the same accusations among the chattering classes.
Israel’s leaders don’t know what justice if they met it in the mirror.
They are more concerned with how they look to the world than with the families of those the terrorists maimed and murdered.
If they were truly concerned with justice, they would allow the hunger-striking terrorist murderers to all die.
They made their choice. Israel has no reason to look after their welfare or to keep them alive!
Except that Israel needs “Palestinian” martyrs like a hole in the head — even when the menuvalim richly deserve this fate.
Better to publish elaborate newspaper accounts in Arabic of all the “information” they “gave” the Israeli security forces, then release them into Gaza
Well, at least she didn’t say Israeli’s rounded up these folks with “glee,” as did Michelle Alexander about Reagan during the crack cocaine era.
Two thoughts:
1) I said it to Zombie, I will say it to you Dr. Rubin: It is people like you who make PJM worth reading. The LSM is going the way of the dinosaur. I just heard that the Washington Post’ readership is down (I think it was 10%) along with its revenues. That’s a good thing at this point. Both it and the NYT are headed for a rendevous with Der Sturmer at the rate their going.
2) David Kaplan’s remarks to Martha Lev-Zion @3 are spot-on.
In the interest of accuracy, CJR did earlier identify the four journalists held by Israel as Walid Khalid Harb, Nawaf al-Amer, Amer Abu Arafa, and Raed al-Sharif. That report, the 2011 year in review which was the source of data for the later per-capita report, is still on the web: http://www.cpj.org/imprisoned/2011.php#israel_opt
CJR says the four are (or were at the time) imprisoned under military “administrative detention” without any public allegation of wrongdoing. I was unable to find any further information about them.
Point of clarification: “Administrative detention” (ma’atzar minhali) means that the minister of defense (in Israel) has the authority to have somebody, deemed SERIOUSLY likely to harm the security of the state, arrested and kept locked up for up to six months. Cause must be shown at an in-camera hearing within 48 hours. The detainee may appeal to the district court judge, and if denied there, before the Supreme Court. If these deem that the arrest was made for non-security reasons (common crime, exercise of freedom of expression) this is grounds for annulation.
Most commonly, these are cases where evidence (of espionage, terrorist activity,…) was obtained by informers or undercover operatives and revealing the details in court would endanger or “burn” these, or where terrorist action is believed imminent and not enough time exist to dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s for a conventional arrest.
While most AD cases have been “Palestinian” terrorists, the procedure has been used against Jewish extremists as well, most notably in the aftermath of the Rabin (z”l) assassination.
This letter written by Netanyahu’s senior advisor to the New York Times this past December is worth repeating:
Dear Sasha,
I received your email requesting that Prime Minister Netanyahu submit an op-ed to the New York Times. Unfortunately, we must respectfully decline.
On matters relating to Israel, the op-ed page of the “paper of record” has failed to heed the late Senator Moynihan’s admonition that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but that no one is entitled to their own facts.
A case in point was your decision last May to publish the following bit of historical revision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas:
It is important to note that the last time the question of Palestinian statehood took center stage at the General Assembly, the question posed to the international community was whether our homeland should be partitioned into two states. In November 1947, the General Assembly made its recommendation and answered in the affirmative. Shortly thereafter, Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued.
This paragraph effectively turns on its head an event within living memory in which the Palestinians rejected the UN partition plan accepted by the Jews and then joined five Arab states in launching a war to annihilate the embryonic Jewish state. It should not have made it past the most rudimentary fact-checking.
The opinions of some of your regular columnists regarding Israel are well known. They consistently distort the positions of our government and ignore the steps it has taken to advance peace. They cavalierly defame our country by suggesting that marginal phenomena condemned by Prime Minister Netanyahu and virtually every Israeli official somehow reflects government policy or Israeli society as a whole. Worse, one columnist even stooped to suggesting that the strong expressions of support for Prime Minister Netanyahu during his speech this year to Congress was “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby” rather than a reflection of the broad support for Israel among the American people.
Yet instead of trying to balance these views with a different opinion, it would seem as if the surest way to get an op-ed published in the New York Times these days, no matter how obscure the writer or the viewpoint, is to attack Israel. Even so, the recent piece on “Pinkwashing,” in which Israel is vilified for having the temerity to champion its record on gay-rights, set a new bar that will be hard for you to lower in the future.
Not to be accused of cherry-picking to prove a point, I discovered that during the last three months (September through November) you published 20 op-eds about Israel in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. After dividing the op-eds into two categories, “positive” and “negative,” with “negative” meaning an attack against the State of Israel or the policies of its democratically elected government, I found that 19 out of 20 columns were “negative.”
The only “positive” piece was penned by Richard Goldstone (of the infamous Goldstone Report), in which he defended Israel against the slanderous charge of Apartheid.
Yet your decision to publish that op-ed came a few months after your paper reportedly rejected Goldstone’s previous submission. In that earlier piece, which was ultimately published in the Washington Post, the man who was quoted the world over for alleging that Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza, fundamentally changed his position. According to the New York Times op-ed page, that was apparently news unfit to print.
Your refusal to publish “positive” pieces about Israel apparently does not stem from a shortage of supply. It was brought to my attention that the Majority Leader and Minority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives jointly submitted an op-ed to your paper in September opposing the Palestinian action at the United Nations and supporting the call of both Israel and the Obama administration for direct negotiations without preconditions. In an age of intense partisanship, one would have thought that strong bipartisan support for Israel on such a timely issue would have made your cut.
So with all due respect to your prestigious paper, you will forgive us for declining your offer. We wouldn’t want to be seen as “Bibiwashing” the op-ed page of the New York Times.
Sincerely,
Ron Dermer
Senior advisor to Prime Minister Netanyahu
Excellent!
THAT is how you speak Truth to Power!
Maybe the people at The New York Times should interview those “weak” Palestinaians that stabbed a whole family to death in Israel while they were at home sleeping. Maybe they might get some infromation from them on why they are in prison. I’m beginning to wonder if reporters for the New York Times bother doing any research on anything anymore. Probably not. They just get all their information from Media Matters or MoveOn.org and print whatever they say. Hey, it’s a lot cheaper than actually doing your job, right? And the people at The New York Times wonder why nobody is reading them anymore. Maybe they should start reading some of their own articles to find out why.
They just get all their information from Media Matters or MoveOn.org and print whatever they say.
How about PR firms hired by Arabs?
The Arabs achieved a singular PR achievement, which is to portray the single minority state in the region, a country facing constant jihad, as the regional hegemon and aggressor. To achieve that you need to invest a lot of money in PR. PR that will also portary the Arabs as the poor facing wealthy Jews who can buy PR. That’s a pretty incredible achievement.
It has been ten years since I would waste my time reading either the NYTimes or the LATimes, even if it’s the only reading material in sight, freely available on a Starbucks table-top, and I’m stuck there waiting for an hour.
Specific articles linked from an established blog, I’ll glance at, with the very lowest of expectations.
Even after the news operations fell apart, for a while both papers had editorials and columnists, captive and guest, that were interesting. But as Thomas Friedman fell apart and MoDo went nuts, even that went away. The MSM is now for the most part a violently insane element of society, spreading disinformation more disruptive than any facts that may still flow through. I guess they, including such as AP and CNN, still supply some infrastructure of reporters on the ground, and the Internet has not quite yet managed to disintermediate this function, but I guess we’re working on it.
Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians is just one for the books, and people may be debating events in the area 1918 to 2012 a thousand years from now, even if peace were to break out tomorrow.
“What comes after ridiculously biased?” was the question. Overt violence against Jews, of course. A pogrom. Right here in River City…
Just as anti-Israel rhetoric escalated to the levels we see today in Malmo, Sweden, or in Norway, we could see a stone thrown, a yarmulke grabbed, pushing and shoving, a neighborhood terrorized, and inevitably kristalnacht.
It is not coincidental that the most liberal of liberals, Norway and Sweden, spearhead the old hate. Ditto for NYT.
Most of us thought Snoopy typing atop his doghouse was humor.
Rudoren took it as Journalism 101.
Our enemies cannot be won over with words. They worship death and call murderers heroes. They raise their children to commit murder and look upon it as good. Those who stand shoulder to shoulder with them condemn themselves as well.
Zechariah 14;12 וְזֹאת תִּהְיֶה הַמַּגֵּפָה, אֲשֶׁר יִגֹּף יְהוָה אֶת-כָּל-הָעַמִּים, אֲשֶׁר צָבְאוּ, עַל-יְרוּשָׁלִָם; הָמֵק בְּשָׂרוֹ, וְהוּא עֹמֵד עַל-רַגְלָיו, וְעֵינָיו תִּמַּקְנָה בְחֹרֵיהֶן, וּלְשׁוֹנוֹ תִּמַּק בְּפִיהֶם.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Do not fear for Israel. Fear Hashem.
Whatever, you fundamentalist psycho.
If that’s your opinion, AJB, why are you hear reading this article and the comments? I’m truly curious — not wanting to start a fight. Is to “see how the other half lives?” — that kind of thing?
– FF
One does not have to be a fundamentalist to quote Scripture in support of one’s arguments. It is no different than quoting any other expert (or non-expert). By quoting Scripture, we do not predict the future, but rather we amaze ourselves with how others managed such insights from such a distance. Moreover, one does not have to believe that by quoting Scripture, they are invoking an old man sitting on a throne to take some action. In the real world, things happen quite automatically. The level of irrationality of someone’s actions determines in great degree the level of punishment they bring to the world – including their own delimited world. Of course, irrationality of action takes innocents along, but again that happens automatically and should make us shun irrationality of action in others just as we would avoid licking our fingers after pushing a supermarket shopping cart about.
Historical context is everything.
Sound judgement has become ” judgemental ” thus herd mentality supplants the individuals right to reason for himself. The end result – mothers that murder their children are set free.
Holy Matrimony becomes simply marriage so partnership with The Almighty in the creation of life is supplanted by the quest for orgasm with whomever one chooses.
The end result- men marrying men and women marrying women.
And of course there is the new religious war as one type of worship seeks to impose itself on others as ” Democracy ” replaces Religious Freedom as the barometer of a healthy society and provides a fig leaf for duplicitous political hacks.
Society is crumbling and the degeneration is happening at lightening speed. As the world community wallows in filth the great cleansing is imminent. The pain is only beginning.
” The rapid changes on both a technological and sociological level will result in a great social upheaval. The cataclysmic changes will result in considerable suffering, often referred to as the Hevlei Mashiah or Birthpangs of the Messiah. If the Messiah comes with miracles, these “birthpangs” may be avoided, but the great changes involved in his coming in the manner adopted by Maimonides may make these terrible travails inevitable.
Since in a period of such accelerated change parents and children will grow up in literally different worlds, traditions handed from father to son will be among the major casualties. The Talmud describes at length how there will be general dissatisfaction with the values of religion-in such a rapidly changing world, people will naturally be enamored with the new and dissatisfied with the old. Thus, the sages teach that neither parents nor the aged will be respected, the old will have to seek favors from the young, and a man’s household will become his enemies. Insolence will increase, people will no longer have respect, and none will offer reproof. Religious studies will be despised and used by nonbelievers to strengthen their cause, the government will become godless, academies will be places of indiscretion, and the religious will be denigrated.
In the generation when the Messiah comes, young men will insult the old, and old men will stand before the young [to give them honor]; daughters will rise up against their mothers, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law. The people shall be dog-faced, and a son will not be abashed in his father’s presence. It has been taught, R. Nehemiah said: In the generation of the Messiah’s coming impudence will increase, esteem be perverted. [Sanhedrin 97a]
The Wisdom of the learned will degenerate; fearers of sin will be despised; and the truth will be lacking. Youths will put old men to shame. [Sotah 49b]
Judaism will suffer greatly because of these upheavals. There is a tradition that the Jews will split up into various groups, each laying claim to the truth, as the Talmud says, “Our truth shall be divided into flocks” (Sanhedrin 97a). This will make it exceedingly difficult, almost impossible, to discern true Judaism from the false. This is the meaning of the prophecy, “Truth will fail” (Isaiah 59:15).
Maimonides, in his Epistle to Yemen even predicted that many will leave the fold of Judaism completely, without mali ciously intending to do harm to the Jewish people, and the nation shall suffer immensely as a result of their actions. This is how our sages interpret the prophecy, “The wicked shall do wickedly, and not understand” (Daniel 12:10)..
Of course, there will he some Jews who remain true to their traditions. They will realize that they are witnessing the death throes of a degenerate old order and will not be drawn into it. But they will suffer all the more for this, and be dubbed fools for not conforming to the liberal ways of the premessianic age. This is the meaning of the prophecy (Isaiah 59:15), “He who departs from evil will be considered a fool” (Sanhedrin 97a).”
http://www.moshiach.com/topics/what/the-moshiach-in-our-time.php
In the meantime a little schnapps and a nice piece of herring is a good thing. L’Chaim.
Much of the same can be said about the Los Angeles Times. Its constant onslaught of attacks on Israel caused many of us in this community to cancel our subscriptions. When I cancelled, I made sure to tell them what I thought and took it up the ladder there. I even offered to write an oped piece for them provided that they give me at least as much space as one of their attacks had. Their answer was to counter offer that they would be glad to print a letter of mine provided that they could limit its length and that they could edit its content. It would have limited me to a few hundred words over which they had total control. In essence they let me know that there would be no balance in their reporting. I just dropped my subscription as a result. Since then the LA Times has lost most of its Jewish readership. Recognizing this they have attempted a reproachment with the community. It has not changed most of their approach to reporting. Recently, there has been a movement for Jewish businesses to cancel their advertisements in that paper. This really hit home. Still there has been nothing positive coming from the paper. The LA Times is now in financial trouble due in part to their own actions. Boycotts do work, just ask the LA Times.
Thanks for the feel good story.
The LATIMES should re;lease the Obama/Khalidi tape, for starters.
Jodi is another example of those who are a part of the world system. If you are not part of the world system, the world will hate you for it. Let’s see, who is not a part of the world system? Jews, and Christians.
I go into the world to work, but I am not of the world. Those who curse Israel, will be cursed.
After 1878 years Israel was reborn, and with it’s native tongue. Israel exists again not for the sake of the Jews, but to show G-d keeps his agreements, even when those who he made an agreement with can not. The world system does not fear G-d, but worships the creation. Just as in the days of Noah.
The best thing about the NYT is that they have really good KenKen puzzles that appear on the net everyday at midnight!
My wife would receive the vacation section of the NYT from an Illiberal colleague each week because that person knew we enjoyed traveling abroad for vacation.
The ~9 months perusing this section the 1 and only instance Israel (in this instance East Jerusalem) was spoken of a vacation destination it’d been an overwhelming political hit-piece. Furthermore it’d ONLY spoken highly of the Arab section of Jerusalem.
I told my wife’s colleague politely when rendezvousing for coffee shortly thereafter we no longer need/ want the NYT vacation section.
Un-Frickin’-Believable!
– FF
We do not fully appreciate the reasoning of those opposed to Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. It is not merely the belief on the Left that nationalism is the cause of world conflict. It is not merely the belief that “minor” cultures will have to be sacrificed for the good of world union. It is not only the belief that humans create meaning where there is none. In the case of Israel, it is the quintessentially irrational belief that no matter what good comes from Israel, no matter its source, no matter what happiness, comfort, creativity, hope, and peace emanate from it, it is not worth its costs in terms of Muslim animus and the need to modify Marxist truisms. In short, for the good of the world, the Jews must go. To this understanding I respond that “first they came for the Jews….”
Perhaps the Rudoren can be found guilty of plagiarism. When Herr Freidmann published his infamous “bought and sold by the Israel lobby”, I felt this phrase was plagiarized from Stormfront or another neo-Nazi website
American either jews and christians and atheists too are still very much in the fog about the coming ” moral order ” that the new islam-marxist alliance will bring. The code word of that new ” moral order ” is submission: submission to the rule of the quantity, no matter what nonsenses this quantity will decide, submission to the needs of the quantity whatever deprivation it will cause to the individual wellbeing created thanks to the previous generations. The fight is of gigantic , epic proportions, and it is promoted in a slight, cunning , malignant manner by the numerous ” liberals-leftists ” ( nicknamed compagnons de route those who in french algerian war worked for the arab side )who prefer to surf the ” submission to the masses trend ” rather than to fight for their culture and civilization. The farcical aspect of this islamo-marxist aggressive policy is that its matrix is made of two historic failures marxism and islamism. The ” submission to the masses ” engineered by islamo-marxism and helpfully crafted by the liberals-leftists medias is a direct assault on the individual freedom; this submission to the masses will -if we do not unmask it and fight it in every corner starting from Israel and the USA – nullify individual freedom and dissolve it into the democracy of the masses. Useful to bear in mind what Ortega y Gasset wrote :Masse is all that does not value itself- neither in good or in bad – but masse feels as if it is the world itself , without any anxiety , and even more feels completely free in impersonating itself as identical to others. ” (the rebellion of the masses 1930)
I cancelled by subscription to the LA Times years ago,no longer able to tolerate the endless photos of wailing Arab women whose “brave sons” had been been killed by “ruthless” IDF soldiers. Wailing Arab women, Israeli soldiers: it was a theme worthy of the “Two Minute Hate”, repeated endlessly, just as in Airstrip One. Who knew “1984″ would be considered a training manual for Left-wing journalists?
For those RINOs who still subscribe to the TImes and other MSM papers, you need to understand that your newspaper subscription is really a contribution to the DNC. If that isn’t a reason to cancel, I give up.
Barry: Thank you. But, you missed what I thought was the most amusing quote in the story
“On Thursday in Ramallah, 300 women marched to Al Manara Square, chanting, “Yes for hunger strike, no to submission” and “Down with the olive branch, long live the rifle.””
Do you think these people had much commitment to the principles of Satyagraha?
Would Ms. Rudoren, know what Satyagraha is without looking it up? Does she just publish the crap that her PA minders feed her?
Yes. That’s a good girl. Now run along and play.
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