he New York Times assigned to the story a campaign-trail reporter, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, whose political perceptions are bland and whose knowledge of Israeli-American relations is an antiseptic zero. At the newspaper of record, a thing like that does not happen by accident. They took the most anxiously awaited meeting with a foreign leader of President Obama's term thus far, and buried it on page 12. The coverage of a major event, which the same newspaper had greeted only the day before by running an oversize attack-Iran, op-ed by Jeffrey Goldberg, has officially now shrunk to the scale of a smaller op-ed.
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While I don't always agree with Gorenberg, he does make some astute observations...
ReplyDeleteHebrew is a compressed language. Much disdain can be packed in a few syllables. To say of the prime minister, “He’s someone who cracks under pressure,” takes just two words: hu lahitz. When a television mike caught the Israeli Finance Ministry’s budget chief using those words last week, the budget chief denied he was talking about Benjamin Netanyahu. The denial was hard to take seriously.
Prepare yourselves for round-the-clock footage on American TV of heart-wrenching teary eyed settlers being evicted from a settlement or two...
ReplyDeleteYesterday the army evacuated the illegal outpost of Maoz Esther, as various newspapers reported. Orders for demolishing an outpost have to come directly from the defense minister, Ehud Barak. The bulldozers appeared a few hours after press reports that Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to dismantle illegal settlement outposts, and even less time after Barak met settlement leaders and insisted that if outposts weren’t taken down voluntarily, they’d be removed by force, because “there’s no compromise on enforcing the law.” Oh, and of course this is all after Netanyahu’s uncomfortable conversations in Washington, where Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and everyone else including the waiters at his kosher dinner at Blair House told him that settlement building had to stop and outposts had to be taken down.
what else is the NYT good for except falsification?
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