The New York Times, Obama, and Israel: A New Low for the Paper of Record
If one needs any more proof of the animus towards Israel coming from the editors of The New York Times, look no further than today’s editorial — which marks a new low for the paper. Perhaps they were merely lazy and decided to plagiarize editorials appearing regularly in the pages of The Nation. Or perhaps they just realize that most of their readers don’t subscribe to the official publication of the far Left, and need to get the message out on their own.
Whatever the explanation, the editors felt the need to both chastise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for defending his country’s interests, and to praise to the skies President Barack Obama for his highly extraordinary and rude treatment of Netanyahu two days ago. According to their account, “the Obama administration had hoped Mr. Netanyahu would give it something to work with.” But instead, he unceremoniously would not condemn the very legal building in Jerusalem that all previous administrations had not contested. Instead, Netanyahu’s firm stance is interpreted by them as an assault on the supposed but really non-existent “peace process,” and a barrier to reaching a “two-state solution” for the Middle East.
As usual, the editors call the government “right-wing,” which means to the Times readers it is evil personified. Moreover, by insisting on the right to build in an area which everyone knows will be part of Israel once peace is attained, somehow to the editors it is to take place in an area “which Palestinians hope to make the capital of an independent state.” So by refusing to accept Obama’s demands, the editors assert that Obama “has been understandably furious at Israel’s response.”
Meanwhile, just a few days after Secretary of State Clinton told AIPAC that the U.S. would demand “sanctions that bite” on Iran, we have all learned that instead, U.S. policy is to soften any talk of sanctions in the vague hope that Russia and China will work with us to convince Iran to move away from its program for a nuclear bomb capacity. But while the U.S. can play nice with Iran, the announcement that an apartment complex will be built someday in Jerusalem means to the Times that the administration has to get even tougher with Israel.
As they see it, the Palestinians are “justifiably worried” that the land they hope to obtain will be nibbled away. The paper forgets to ask why their leaders have rejected virtually every settlement offered them in recent years that would have given them almost everything they want. Such an offer was made to Mahmoud Abbas by the previous Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert before he left office, and was turned down to his great consternation. Don’t expect that from the Times editors, who only ask that Israel be “pressed” by the Obama team to “halt building in East Jerusalem.” Only one side to the issue, it seems, is to be subject to pressure.
“Only one side to the issue, it seems, is to be subject to pressure.”
Only the Israelis are to be pressured because most of them possess white skin. It is really is simple as that. There is little sense in overcomplicating the matter. White race guilt may pose the greatest existential threat to the very survival of the Western nations. White leftists long ago jumped aboard this bandwagon because they rightfully sensed it would dramatically increase their power. It is foolish for center-right thinkers to ignore the crisis for it also empowers radical white racists like David Duke. He will pretend to be a savior to the beleaguered and truly victimized whites. Either decent—or vile people will fill the inevitable vacuum that is created.
Americans elected him. What a shame, the end of the great USA is on it’s way. Obama will be rememberd as the Mr Chaimberlin of the USA.
USA demand no Jews in parts of Jerusalem!
Clinton/USA is demanding a terror state (like Iran or an entity like Al Qaeda) be established on the West Bank/Gaza…
… while the US/EU claim to be at war (Iraq/Afghan) with the same terrorist they demand set up a state on the West Bank/Gaza.
One can only conclude that the US/EU soldiers are in fact human sacrifice to the Islime G-d and that this war is in fact a phoney “nice Long lasting War and sell lots of weapons” exactly as I informed every member of congress between 1989-1991. c 1991 getty…
We send army men to die fighting people; while we demand that that same enemy/people set up a terror state on the West Bank and Gaza exactly like the States we are fighting/human sacrifice…this is “bazaar…
The USA: with friends like the USA, who needs enemies…The USA brought this current uprising with “malice of forethought”.
Obama is directly endangering our troops by deluding/lying… and claiming Israel defending itself, against terrorist dictators that parade as religious, endangers American troops; exactly the opposite is true! …
Obama’s insistence that the tyrants, parading as religious, in Iran be kept in power at all cost, is precisely the show of weakness that emboldens Taleban/Al Qaeda ( both of which are the brainchild, creation, and dependant of middle east intelligence agencies in a: good cop bad cop scam…) to attack our troops; And now the Obama stunning show of treachery against Israel, is emboldening the terrorist, that Obama demands be granted statehood on the West Bank/Gaza, to step up terror attacks against Israel…
The LA Times is known for their anti-Semitic editorials and reporting. The Jews of LA have simply stopped buying the paper and now the LA times is in financial trouble. The same can be done in New York. Its easy to talk to people and have them talk to their friends. If you want to have an effect on them, lose 10% of their readership. If that doesn’t work lose 20% and so on. Eventually they will get the drift.
Don’t forget NYT is working for that Lebanese-Mexican Slim guy.
Unfortunately, Obama is playing it by the numbers. One billion Muslims vs. approximately 7.4 million Israelis. Obama sees no point in maintaining an alliance with a tiny country that has traditionally helped the United States in a very violent part of the world, when he can suck up to a bunch of violent Muslim dictators and tyrants in the false hope that he can buy himself some love and acceptance from the Muslim world. So far, Iran, Syria, Hamas, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah have told Obama to take a hike, so the plan doesn’t seem to be working. Sure stinks when you sell out your friends and get nothing in return for doing that, huh?
I can only shake my head in wonder at what the United States has become and how far she has fallen.
My only hope is that next time, we will do better. If not, . . . .
Israel is an outpost of the West. The West must die. The Left is passionate in only one thing: the West must die. And now the Left has secured the height of power in the West: the Presidency of the United States. But have no fear, there will be no armed revolt against dear leader and his minions. Why? Because violence is a b-a-a-a-d thing. All the best people tell us so.
Is this an example of what Rodham called “…smart power…smart diplomacy..”at her Senate confirmation hearing to become SoS?…because if it is,then gag me with the proverbial spoon.
Our administration is at war with westernism. We have a president in love with the third world. Does he see himself as a despot such as those he so admires?
I pray that we will able to glue the shattered pieces of our diplomacy back together in some recognizable fashion after these amateurs have left office.
@Libertyship46 “obama is playing by the numbers. one billion muslims vs. 7.4milliion israelis”
our potus feels powerless. and he is.
like a frightened father wounded child, he admires the power of despots and tyrants. especially, their numbers. it comforts him to imagine that he is on the winning side. this is the thinking of an empty, cowardly, dessicated narcissus, having none of his own power, just an obsession with his watery reflection.
now, at passover he wants to command his own seder at the whitehouse, hallucinating that he is moses, or perhaps, pharoah.
to a man who has lost the plot, there is no difference and nothing matters.
I hope the Jews who voted for this POTUS are just tickled by this guy’s hopey changey for Israel. James Baker in 1992: F**k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway; the Obami in 2010: F**k the Jews, they’ll vote for us anyway.
Don’t you know? It’s not PC to pick sides!
Jack in Silver Spring
You’re wrong! You can teach a mule a few things, we Jews a just a tad smatter. We’ll get the message. Obami has already made it plain f**k the Jews. They are already changing their minds one at a mule head time.
What kind of retard would curse Israel for building in Jerusalem and do nothing about Iran that’s building nuclear weapons?
An Obama retard is the answer. Obama in the long run is going to be the best thing that’s ever happened to conservatism or Israel. All we have to do is ride out 7 more months until the 2010 elections, it will be a blood bath for the liberal douche bags! November can’t come fast enough for me or the health of the world.
Oscar the Grump, I wish you were right, but I think you overestimate the average assimilated Jew. Obama will lose a portion of the Jewish vote, but most will remain. Voting democratic is a reflexive impulse, like going to synagogue on the high holy days even though you really have no idea why you still go.
Evangelical Christians and informed, moderate people of all persuasions are the foundation of American support for Israel. Assimilated Jews are vaguely pro-Israel but mostly uninterested.
Oh, so now the New York Times is anti-Israel. Do you hear the whole world laughing at you?
At last, the PJM creed stands revealed: “The entire universe is a plot against Israel.”
“Sure stinks when you sell out your friends and get nothing in return for doing that, huh?”
They’ll get something in return, namely oil from the Saudis. They don’t want another OPEC embargo, and since they no longer need Israel as a pawn to use against the Soviets and Soviet client states (like Egypt and Syria used to be), it’s just a matter of time until the liberals do to the Jews in Israel what they did to the South Vietnamese…namely throw them to the wolves.
A reminder…
“Gerald Ford took over as U.S. president on 9 August 1974 after President Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal. At this time, Congress cut financial aid to South Vietnam from $1 billion a year to $700 million. The U.S. midterm elections in 1974 brought in a new Congress dominated by Democrats who were even more determined to confront the president on the war. Congress immediately voted in restrictions on funding and military activities to be phased in through 1975 and to culminate in a total cutoff of funding in 1976…”–wiki
In April 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists, and the stinking lowlife trash in the Democrat Party, the same bastards who got us into the Vietnam War in the first place, got their revenge on Nixon and the Republicans by cutting off aid to a longtime ally who was in desperate need.
President Thieu, the South Vietnamese president said:
“At the time of the peace agreement [the 1973 Paris Peace Accords] the United States agreed to replace equipment on a one-by-one basis. But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American’s word reliable these days?…The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom…”–wiki
If I was the Israelis I wouldn’t trust a Dem president or a Dem controlled Congress as far as I could hurl them. Past alliances, or promises made mean nothing to these guys.
The Demscum don’t care about Israel anymore than they care about all the Americans who have been murdered by Pal/Hezbollah terrorists over the last few decades, and they’ll sell Israel down the river in a heartbeat, if they think they can get something for it.
It’s not very complicated,Pinky and the rest of the boys at the Times are more leftist than Jewish.
And how, Pedro. The New York Times – although founded and owned by a JEwish family – has a disturbing where Jews are concerned. An interesting book has been written about how the Holocaust was practically overlooked by the newspaper:
http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Times-Holocaust-Important-Newspaper/dp/0521812879/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269753121&sr=1-11
It would be serious if anyone still read The New York Times, if they had any credibility outside a diminishing circle of left-wing cranks.
All the lies fit to print, this relic has become America’s ”Pravda” – it’s very much like our own refuge for left-wing fossils & cranks, ”Haaretz” – read only by our ever-shrinking marginalized Left & foreign anti-Semites.
The day they finally go bankrupt & close their doors for good will be a happy day indeed.
Most of the writers at the NYT have been enemies of the American way for at least a century now. I would love tho deal with them the exact same way they would deal with me if they had total control over the US. I know, I know, I’m not supposed to think this sort of thing…
Re: Roger, Since Pinky took over from Arthur Ochs Sulzberger( papa).The paper has gone from a respected liberal journal to a propaganda outlet even with hard news.People can agree or disagree with a particular policy of Israel but when you advocate views that could seriously jeopardize a country that has your fellow co-religionists best interests then I think it is safe to say ideology trumps religion.
Perhaps the Obama Administration could get tough with Hamas on the issue of firing rockets and missiles into Israel.
An goodwill gesture towards the Israels, to kickstart the peace talks.
Just a thought.
The Grey Lady turned into the Whore of Babylon decades ago in 1970 when it backed Nigeria over the Ibo.
I never pay attention to the antics of a whore; that was my watchword for Condaleezza Rice, and it is my watchword for Hillary Rodham Clinon. It is also my watchword for the NYT.
I never pay attention to the antics of a narcissistic idiot who will die on the mountains of Israel. That is my watchword for the American “president”.
!חג פסח כשר וסמח
Next Year in Rebuilt Jerusalem!!
“One has to actually wonder: at this week’s White House Seder, can we really be sure that the service will end with “next year in Jerusalem”?…”
Awwwk-ward.
You know this morning at the cafe from where I have been working in central Tel Aviv, I overheard some eggheaded youngish Canadian Jew, working towards his full professorship in psychology in Canada (I overheard his conversation with his Israeli colleague in English) blabber on about psychology and collective identity and his statement that the Jews building homes in Jersualem could easily be seen as provocative and more Leftist fodderol of that order, in other words he was a typical know-nothing eggheaded Diaspora Jewish pseudointellectual liberal whose book knowledge is meaningless and is in fact why he is so stupid. He would never get (convinced that he is so smart and going on about all the papers he has published and those in the works) that he has no psychogical insight whatsover and in fact is suffering from numerous delusions and has a serious self-loathing issue and is just clueless on topics he thinks he knows something about.
The other night I overheard a very young American Jewish girl who seemed very sweet and likeable (maybe 16 years old) regaling a friend about how happy she was with Obamacare being passed and how wonderful and great Obama was. I actually don’t really give a fig one way or the other here re Obamacare and I don’t want to distract from my point. Namely this – the fact that Obama is a vicious Jew-hater who gets upset that Jews are building homes didn’t mean anything to her, for all I know she didn’t have a clue about it and if she did have a clue she wouldn’t comprehend what it means. Now one may object that she is just a teenager, yes but she is the future and the signs are not good.
I just mention these two examples from the last two days or so to give you an idea of my impression of North American Jews. I could give you plenty more examples (far worse) of my experience with these English language Diaspora Jews here in Israel. Bottom line is I don’t have any hope, the fact that the NY Times gets away with their Judenhass tells me that New York Jews are at best apathetic and at worst filled with self-loathing.
Lights out perhaps for North American Jews? Well I have written off most of them I gotta be honest.
Dave Surls, #14, you said: “They’ll get something in return, namely oil from the Saudis. They don’t want another OPEC embargo, and since they no longer need Israel as a pawn to use against the Soviets and Soviet client states (like Egypt and Syria used to be), it’s just a matter of time until the liberals do to the Jews in Israel what they did to the South Vietnamese…namely throw them to the wolves.”
The sad part about what you pointed out is that, if Obama throws Israel under the bus, the Muslim tyrants in the Middle East will know they can play Obama like a violin. We will lose Israel AND get an oil embargo whenever the OPEC nations want one. The OPEC leaders will know they can blackmail Obama into anything, so we’ll lose a close ally in the region and get nothing, absolutely nothing, in return. Forget about the moral implications of betraying Israel, because Obama could care less about saving a few million Jews, especially since he is so desperate to be “loved” by the Muslim nations. No, the Muslim tyrants (such as that little man in Iran, Ahmadinejad) know that we are leaving Iraq this year and are abandoning Afghanistan next year and that Obama has no intention of coming back. All they have to do is wait a few months and then they’ll be able to do whatever they want. Israel will have been sacrificed for nothing, absolutely nothing. And when Iran gets a nuclear bomb and destroys Israel, it will make the betrayal of South Vietnam look like child’s play.
I disagree about “a new low for NYT”:
When Giuliani beat Green for mayor, one had to look to page 20 at the bottom for a blurb; not one word on the front page. Never picked up the NYT after that or read anything they print unless some trusted source clues me: it is a planted story by the “administration”; generally informative to see what the “administration” plants and notice what they are up to at that time that they are desperate for the press not to cover!
The message in the editorial is quite clear. If Jews don’t behave, they will be severely marginalized. You don’t have to go back too far in history to find out what happens when the civilized world turns its back on the Jews. Straight to the oven and this one won’t be a 6 burner stainless steel Viking model in the kitchen like the NYT readers have in their upper West Side apartments.
The response from the lefty Jews of NY? “Stop doing this crap, Israel, you’ll get us all killed.”
Palestinians do not want their own country. They want Israel, Israel without Jews. Palestinians rejected a two state solution in 1917, 1937, 1948 and 2000. In 2000 they were given everything they demanded.
Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize was just moved out from storage to a prime position in the lobby display case at the Times building.
This is for most of the commenters:
Middle east terrorism is a direct result of “Zionism” and the Israeli occupation. The U.S. would be better off letting the apartheid state fend for itself. We have 50 states not 51. Ally or not Israel needs to be held accountable for their atrocities and human rights violations.
Anyone who does 1hour of non biased research on the Israeli-Palestinian issue knows the Israelis are the problem. Not Jewish people or the Jewish faith. But the Israeli gov’t itself and the people who support it. Whatever their faith may be. Thank goodness we have a President who finally isn’t afraid to stop enabling these Zionist turds.
How many Marxist Jews are there in the US? How many Jews are willing to sell out Israel to be a fawning sycophant for Obama? What type of Jew is willing to trade his heritage, culture, and religion for that of Muslim placating Obama?
I don’t think the Jews of Israel will be willing to get on Obama’s appeasement trains of death: the American Jews seems more than willing to purchase their tickets.
As a Gentile, I stand with the Israeli Jew. The American President is so willing to disgrace our allies while playing Chamberlain’s Advocate to our enemies, who want to destroy us with Jews and homosexuals to the front of the line; the future of American Jews is being compromised by its own people, with its support of Obama. If it were not so tragic it would be hilarious; however, I doubt that G-d finds it amusing.
Same old, same old Jewish self-hatred. Where’s the outrage over housing built in Washington, DC?
15. Pedro: “It’s not very complicated,Pinky and the rest of the boys at the Times are more leftist than Jewish.”
16. Roger L Simon: “And how, Pedro.”
This kind of repellant nonsense says volumes about why an overwhelming majority of American Jews support the Dems and will continue to do so.
20. Ruvy: ‘I never pay attention to the antics of a whore; that was my watchword for Condaleezza Rice, and it is my watchword for Hillary Rodham Clinon. It is also my watchword for the NYT….I never pay attention to the antics of a narcissistic idiot who will die on the mountains of Israel. That is my watchword for the American “president”.’
You have to excuse Ruvy. The West Bank sun is very, very hot.
Almost every president has tried “peace in the middleeast” as their mantra. The world wants it. Many in the middle east want it. However, because of the mindset of each side, real peace will never happen. Never.
They will have to bring the superpowers onboard and convince the principles “to think outside the box” in order to make progress. Which is also impossible.
Hence, under the current conditions, there will never be peace in the middle east. But that will not stop world leaders (including this president) from saying “peace in the middle east”. There is absolutely no way the current conditions will change. It is that simple.
¿Saben que hay una flota rusa estacionada en Siria? ¿Saben que Israel està dando asilo a cientos de personas negras refugiadas de Sudán, mientras los islamistas y egipcios los matan? ¿Por qué se menciona siempre el Islam, que según mis lecturas no aprecian mucho a Hussein, a quien también ven traidor, y no a la gente negra para quien también serìa un gran traidor? ¿Y si antes era Musulman y ahora Cristiano, no es traidor para ambos? ¿Y el comentario de apoyo a la masacre de crstianos? Y deben saber que Hussein no es mas importante que tres mil años de Historia. Felices Pascuas
Corrección: Debe decir:¿Y el comentario de apoyo a los cristianos por la masacre que los islmistas hacen con ellos?
Agregado: ,,,en Siria? ¿el apoyo que comenzó a recibir de la UE? ¿Su nuevo acuerdo con el Mercosur, con India, con China y suma y sigue?
Disculpas y gracias.
Joseph,
Temps here have been lower than usual. And I see the bitter truth about the country the United States has degenrated into – and I’m not afraid to call it for what it is – wanton depravity.
It’s not my problem if you cannot handle the truth; in fact, you are in good company. Most people cannot handle the blistering unkind truth. That is why they struggle so hard to delude themselves – the way you do.
The New York Times: All the news that fits the narrative.
“Oh, so now the New York Times is anti-Israel. Do you hear the whole world laughing at you?”
No Shef. Maybe YOUR whole world (the world of leftist serfs) is laughing. The rest of us see you and the NYT as fools and are far from laughing at the idiocy of turning our back on Israel and supporting terrorists.
“According to BBC, senior American official told Qatari FM Washington would ‘seriously consider abstaining’ from vote on UN motion against Israeli construction in eastern part of capital”
Ynet
This would be a betrayal… and what would be the Congress reaction
Steve
I hear it almost daily secular Jews are rethinking Obama. One old lady, a die hard Democrat, called us this morning just to tell us the terrible things Obama has just done. She ended her phone call with, “I made a mistake in voting for Obama.” Its turning one mule head at a time; but, it is turning. Our local Jewish paper, which has been liberal and proDemocrats, is now offering a new line “Did we make a mistake with Obama?” and “How Obama snubbed Netanyahu.”
I have to commend Ron Radosh (if it’s him) for allowing contradicting comments. They’re usually “filtered” from most of the blogs that appear on PJM. For example, I challenged a statement made in response to David Solway’s blog (#7. Forgotten Man: “Islam has contributed noting to the advancement of mankind”), but it was deleted. I merely cited a Wikipedia article, but apparently I was not allowed to contest what the moderators considered an unimpeachable truth.
P.S. – They’ll probably post my comment now.
the nytimes is a filthy rag. simple as that. it no longer has any journalists or any journalism. what it does have are mandates and directives. very disgusting. especially since it carries the name of the grey lady. now, in name only.
we’ll see what happens when they charge money for online viewing. that gives me a good, warm feeling.
I hope there IS a Jerusalem next year at this time.
Iran is determined to get the bomb and use it to bring back the 12th Imam — and destroy Israel.
#40,41 hola me amigo: very interesting, almost!
#34 anyone who does a nana second research knows Moslems hate: Hindus, Christians, seculars, Jews, each other; gay etc. Moslems are at daggers drawn in Darfur, Kashmere, Kosovo/Bosnia, Chechnya, xianchang, China, Israel, Somalia, Nigeria…Moslems are mad at everyone not just Jews, and Moslems will not start loving all those other people if only Israel…So #34 is a liar and a fool and a self delusional probable terrorist.
David Surls @ #19: Hey – something we agree on. (I suspect we agree on most things except that thing about Darwin.)
#34 Whar revisionism
I wonder if you can think for yourself or can you only spew the mantra of the Palestinians/Left? If you can think for yourself go to Israel and check it out. 20% of Israel is Moslem with all the customary citizen’s rights. If you are talking about blacks, check out the Ethiopian Jews who were brought into the country with full citizen rights. If you look closely enough you will find American blacks who call themselves Hebrews. If you look closer, you’ll find Sudanese Moslems who found the only safe haven in the region. What Apartheid? If you are referring to the Palestinians, and that is your point. Go live with them and check it out. Then come back and tell us your story. Believe me we’ll listen.
Fair comments, though with an observation that we ignore at our peril: the so-called “two-state solution” is a cruel, politically expedient hoax, and in reality refers to a three-state solution with Israel as the (sandwich) filling.
I believe and predict that should the Israelis ever allow their government to commit to this lethal fraud, it would herald not just Israel’s demise but through it the rupture of Judaism into virtual extinction.
Saddest of all – or perhaps even deserving – would be for the people to be seduced into subscribing through the notion of a biblical hero barging in at the last moment with contract in hand, to save the day.
“Go into that cave,” the gentile whispers sweetly, “because there are definitely no snakes in there, and anyway they’ve been defanged.”