Has this been cleared with Israel?
JERUSALEM — Israel will continue its military campaign in the Gaza Strip as long as necessary to stop Hamas attacks on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday evening, while suggesting a deescalation of the ground war in Gaza may be near.
I guess so because the FIRST PARAGRAPH, and INDEED, the WHOLE ARTICLE has been REWRITTEN!
Separately, on Sunday morning, the Israeli military said an officer who had been thought to be captured by Palestinian militants during a deadly clash Friday morning that shattered a planned 72-hour cease-fire was now considered to have been killed in battle.
Meaning ONCE AGAIN we were LIED TO SO ISRAEL could ADVANCE ITS AGENDA!
SHAME ON YOU, New York Times!
As the death toll mounts to more than 1,650 Palestinians, many of them women and children, and pictures of homes, mosques, and schools smashed into rubble fill the media, Netanyahu is under considerable international pressure, from Washington and Europe, to end the conflict.
Not mine. As for the pressure bit, we will get to that a bit later. It's another distortion if not outright lie.
The United Nations warned starkly of “an unfolding health disaster” in Gaza, with little electricity, bad water, and a shortage of medical supplies.
At the same time, Netanyahu is under political pressure at home to deliver on his promises to crush Hamas, particularly with 63 Israeli soldiers dead and Sunday’s announcement that the officer thought to be captured by Hamas was now considered dead. He insisted Saturday that Hamas had been severely hurt and he warned that it would pay “an intolerable price” if it continues to fire rockets at Israel.
JWho gives a f*** about the political problems he has caused for himself?
His former deputy defense minister, Danny Danon, who was fired by Netanyahu for public criticism of the government, said in a statement Saturday that “the Cabinet is gravely mistaken in its decision to withdraw forces from Gaza. This is a step in the wrong direction.”
I will believe it when I see it, and I bet it won't stop the slaughter by air.
But Netanyahu, in a nationally televised speech with his defense minister beside him, insisted that Israel was achieving its goals and could alter its tactics.
Meaning they are not.
“We promised to return the quiet to Israel’s citizens and we will continue to act until that aim is achieved,” Netanyahu said. “We will take as much time as necessary and will exert as much force as needed.”
And then some.
Israel was not ending its operation unilaterally, he said, adding: “We will deploy in the places most convenient to us to reduce friction on IDF soldiers, because we care about them,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
He is looking like he is in real hot water. What a strange thing to say.
There were Israeli television reports Saturday that some forces were pulling out of Gaza, and Israel informed Palestinians in Beit Lahiya and al-Atatra, in northern Gaza, that it was now safe to return to their homes.
Then wait for the Israeli tank shells.
Israeli officials have said that the army’s effort to destroy the elaborate tunnel system from Gaza into Israel would be finished in the next day or two.
Israeli officials suggested that the army would leave built-up areas and some forces would redeploy inside Gaza, closer to the border fence, in order to respond to attacks if necessary. Other units will return to southern Israel.
In other words, Israel is reoccupying while stealing more land.
Hamas, for its part, vowed to continue fighting.
Really, what else can they do? This is genocidal extermination and ethnic cleansing.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, told the news agency Maan that “a unilateral withdrawal or redeployment by Israel in the Strip will be answered by a fitting response by the Hamas military arm.” He said that “the forces of occupation must choose between remaining in Gaza and paying the price or retreating and paying the price or holding negotiations and paying the price.”
Netanyahu thanked the United States, which along with the United Nations appeared to support Israel’s position that Hamas’s actions violated the cease-fire, and he asked for international help to rebuild Gaza on the condition of its “demilitarization.”
That's why it is called USrael and the JU.N.
Why don't YOU REBUILD GAZA since YOU DESTROYED IT, you shit scum?
WHY don't YOU DEMILITARIZE!?
Israel appears to be hoping that with the support of Egypt and the international community, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can control Gaza through a unity government agreed upon with Hamas and take responsibility for security there and for the Rafah crossing to Egypt.
They were forming a unity government when the first lie about teens occurred.
C'mon! This CRAPOLA PROPAGANDA being ROLLED OUT by the NYT needs to STOP!
Netanyahu repeated that his goal was to restore “peace and calm” to Israel and that he intended to do so by whatever means — diplomatically or militarily.
“All options are on the table,” he said.
No end in sight, although I'll bet the Jewish War Pre$$ starts to recede on their coverage.
But he indicated that Israel would not get caught up again in discussions about a negotiated cease-fire with Hamas and Islamic Jihad and would act in its own interests, while seeking support from Abbas and the international community for what Netanyahu described vaguely as “a new reality” in Gaza.
That is delusional neo-con talk.
Israel has decided not to send a delegation to cease-fire talks hosted by Egypt, at least not now, Israeli officials said.
Earlier, Netanyahu said he had no new information on the condition of the officer now believed dead, Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23.
HUH?!!!!!
On Sunday, a military spokeswoman declined to say whether Goldin had been killed along with two comrades by a suicide bomb one of the militants exploded or later by Israel’s assault on the area to hunt for him; she also refused to answer whether remains had been recovered.
WTF?!!!!???
The soldier’s parents called on the prime minister and on the army not to leave their son behind. Hours before, as word spread that Israel’s leaders were considering pulling all ground forces from Gaza, Goldin’s family spoke to journalists outside their home in the Tel Aviv suburb Kfar Saba.
“I demand that the state of Israel not leave Gaza until they bring my son back home,” said his mother, Hedva.
His sister, Ayelet, 35, added, “If a captive soldier is left in Gaza, it’s a defeat.”
Except he is NOT A CAPTIVE!
The family members said they were convinced that Goldin is alive. “I hope and believe in human kindness, that the world will do anything to bring Hadar with a smile back home,” his brother Chemi, 32, said in an interview.
When his mother called him Friday, Chemi said, he knew something terrible had happened but did not know whether Goldin or his twin, Tzur, who was also fighting in Gaza, was involved. Chemi said the twins, who attended kindergarten in Cambridge, England, did not talk much about their military service.
In Gaza, the armed wing of Hamas said early Saturday that it was not holding the Israeli officer.
The Qassam Brigades suggested in a statement that the officer might have been killed along with his captors in an Israeli assault that followed a suicide-bomb attack by Palestinian militants, who emerged from a tunnel that Israeli troops were trying to destroy near the southern border town of Rafah.
“Until now, we have no idea about the disappearance of the Israeli soldier,” the statement said.
So you are LEFT with the IDEA that he is STILL ALIVE, right?
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Anybody have any ideas about this?
"Israel’s Operation in Gaza to Last as Long as Necessary, Netanyahu Says
Even that is a rewrite!
By STEVEN ERLANGER and JODI RUDOREN
AUG. 2, 2014
JERUSALEM — Israel will continue its military campaign in the Gaza Strip as long as necessary to stop Hamas attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening. But he added that once the army’s operations to destroy tunnels into Israel are completed, Israel will decide how to redeploy its forces, suggesting a de-escalation of the ground war in Gaza.
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Mr. Netanyahu praised the United States for supporting Israel, and asked for international help to rebuild Gaza and secure its “demilitarization.”
Palestinian officials said Saturday that they still planned to send a delegation to Cairo for talks that could start on Sunday.
Looks like it is hand-type now.
But an Israeli Cabinet minister, Yuval Steinitz, told the Associated Press that Israel would not send a delegation to Egypt because Hamas had violated previous deals and "this leads us to the conclusion that with this organization there is no point in speaking" about a cease-fire deal.
The Israeli military said Saturday that a soldier that it thought might have been taken captive by Hamas was dead, the AP reported. Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23, of the Givati infantry brigade was killed in battle on Friday the military said.
OMG! Another WHOPPER LIE! And the NYT PART OF IT AGAIN!
And WHO BENEFITS AGAIN?
Israel continues to wage war like it wants, while Ban Ki-moon's outrage is turned from the ISRAELI SHELLING and ATTACKS on U.N. SCHOOLS to anger of a missing Israeli soldier and the insult to John Kerry is quickly forgotten!
Back to verbatim again.
Earlier Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian faction that dominates the coastal strip, said that it was not holding an Israeli officer who has been missing since a deadly clash Friday that shattered a planned 72-hour cease-fire.
The Qassam Brigades, which have led the 26-day-old battle with Israel, suggested in a statement that the officer might have been killed along with his captors in an Israeli assault that followed an attack by Palestinian militants, who emerged from a tunnel that Israeli troops were trying to destroy near the southern border town of Rafah. Two Israelis were killed in the attack, bringing the military’s casualty count to 63.
“Until now, we have no idea about the disappearance of the Israeli soldier,” the statement read. “We do not know his whereabouts or the conditions of his disappearance.” Saying the leadership had lost touch with its “troops deployed in the ambush,” the statement added, “Our account is that the soldier could have been kidnapped and killed together with our fighters.”
The statement repeated earlier assertions by Hamas leaders that the clash on Friday had occurred at 7 a.m., an hour before the onset of the cease-fire secured by the United Nations and Secretary of State John Kerry. The Israeli military said the attack occurred at 9:20 a.m., and Mr. Kerry, President Obama and the United Nations appeared to accept that account, with statements Friday that clearly blamed Hamas for the cease-fire's breakdown and demanded the group immediately release the captive.
There never was a captive. That was another Israeli lie.
So did Kerry, Obama, and the U.N. give Israel a good suck job or.... ???
A military statement said Israeli forces had struck more than 200 targets across Gaza in the 24 hours since the Rafah confrontation, including what it described as a research and development lab for weapons manufacturing at the Islamic University. Five mosques that the military said concealed weapons or Hamas outposts were also hit, according to the statement, along with a launcher used to fire rockets toward Tel Aviv around 6 a.m. Saturday. Around noon, a barrage of rockets flew into southern Israel.
The Gaza-based Health Ministry, which had reported 70 people killed in Rafah on Friday, said the casualties had continued there overnight, including seven members of one family who died when their home was bombed. More than 1,650 Palestinians have now been killed in the operation, the ministry said. Rafah’s main hospital was evacuated overnight amid the violence, leaving injured people scrambling to find treatment at small clinics on the other side of the city, according to Gaza-based journalists.
There was no electricity in the area, and Israeli news outlets reported that troops had sealed all the roads out of Rafah to the north. Israeli tanks were seen along the Philadelphia route, which runs along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt and has long been riddled with smuggling tunnels, though Egypt has shut many of them down over the past year. Firefights and heavy airstrikes were reported in the area.
The Israeli military on Saturday informed residents of the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, which had been under heavy bombardment, that they could safely return to their homes.
Would you believe the Israelis after all the houses, hospitals, and schools they have leveled?
Some analysts said this indicated that Israel was planning a unilateral withdrawal of its ground troops, but Mr. Netanyahu made clear Saturday that Israel would continue to target tunnels and would consider redeploying its forces in Gaza only when the military decided that the operation was complete.
“After completing the anti-tunnel operation, the I.D.F. will act and continue to act, in accordance with our security needs and only according to our defense needs,” Mr. Netanyahu said in his televised speech, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
He just flipped off the rest of the world.
An Israeli government official sent a statement to journalists on Saturday morning demanding “a strong and swift response” by the international community to the apparent capture of Lieutenant Goldin, including “practical steps” to return him.
I'm ABSOLUTELY FLABBERGASTED!
“Israel received a clear-cut assurance that Hamas has accepted a cease-fire for 72 hours without preconditions,” said the statement, also citing the involvement of Qatar, which has been a financial patron of Hamas and represented it in the diplomatic discussions. “Hamas and Qatar defied the U.S. and the U.N. by breaching a clear-cut commitment that was given to them.”
The Associated Press reported that Mr. Netanyahu had expressed frustration with Washington’s diplomatic efforts in a Friday phone call to Dan Shapiro, the United States ambassador to Israel. Mr. Netanyahu told Mr. Shapiro he expected the Obama administration to back Israel’s Gaza offensive and “not to ever second-guess me again” regarding Hamas, The A.P. said, citing people familiar with the conversation.
What an ARROGANT F***ER!!!!!!!!
I can see why Israel had the New York Times completely rewrite the piece!!
Of course, Obama dropped to his knees, unzipped Israeli fly, pulled tourers down, and locked lip on the limp Israeli pud. After hardening up, he turned around, bent over, and pulled cheek wide.
So WHEN does CHICAGO VANISH in a MUSHROOM CLOUD, Bibi?
I mean, Obummer has to GET the POINT, right?
Asked about the report, Mr. Shapiro declined to comment.
Where my print article ended!
Before Friday’s attack, the 12-member team was to be led by Azzam al-Ahmed of the Palestinian Fatah faction — who is aligned with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, and who helped negotiate an April reconciliation pact between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization — and was to include five Hamas members and two from Islamic Jihad, another Gaza-based militant group. But it was unclear on Saturday whether the Egyptians would allow in anyone based in Gaza.
The Qassam Brigades’ latest statement underscored the ongoing challenge of matching international diplomacy to the asymmetrical combat on the ground.
Mr. Kerry had said that during the planned cease-fire, Israel could continue operations to destroy tunnels into its territory — the stated goal of the ground campaign that it began on July 17.
Then it WASN'T REALLY a CEASE-FIRE, was it?
And he really thought Hamas would except that, or did he just say Israel is making him do it
Hamas had rejected an earlier pause in the fighting because of this condition demanded by Israel. Many in Gaza found the condition fundamentally unfair, viewing it as essentially saying that one side could continue its operation and the other could not.
Look, it's no surprise that the U.S. is an Israeli tool. The whole world can see it.
Qassam said it had agreed only to stop firing rockets on “Zionist towns and cities” for the 72-hour pause.
How rare you see that word, and even rarer to see an Amerikan know what it means.
“On the operational level,” it said in its statement, “we can’t cease firing against the troops advancing into Gaza, which work and move all the time so they could collide with our ambushes. This will definitely lead to clashes.”
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Anybody have any ideas about this?
"Israel’s Operation in Gaza to Last as Long as Necessary, Netanyahu Says
Even that is a rewrite!
By STEVEN ERLANGER and JODI RUDOREN
AUG. 2, 2014
JERUSALEM — Israel will continue its military campaign in the Gaza Strip as long as necessary to stop Hamas attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening. But he added that once the army’s operations to destroy tunnels into Israel are completed, Israel will decide how to redeploy its forces, suggesting a de-escalation of the ground war in Gaza.
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Mr. Netanyahu praised the United States for supporting Israel, and asked for international help to rebuild Gaza and secure its “demilitarization.”
Palestinian officials said Saturday that they still planned to send a delegation to Cairo for talks that could start on Sunday.
Looks like it is hand-type now.
But an Israeli Cabinet minister, Yuval Steinitz, told the Associated Press that Israel would not send a delegation to Egypt because Hamas had violated previous deals and "this leads us to the conclusion that with this organization there is no point in speaking" about a cease-fire deal.
The Israeli military said Saturday that a soldier that it thought might have been taken captive by Hamas was dead, the AP reported. Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23, of the Givati infantry brigade was killed in battle on Friday the military said.
OMG! Another WHOPPER LIE! And the NYT PART OF IT AGAIN!
And WHO BENEFITS AGAIN?
Israel continues to wage war like it wants, while Ban Ki-moon's outrage is turned from the ISRAELI SHELLING and ATTACKS on U.N. SCHOOLS to anger of a missing Israeli soldier and the insult to John Kerry is quickly forgotten!
Back to verbatim again.
Earlier Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian faction that dominates the coastal strip, said that it was not holding an Israeli officer who has been missing since a deadly clash Friday that shattered a planned 72-hour cease-fire.
The Qassam Brigades, which have led the 26-day-old battle with Israel, suggested in a statement that the officer might have been killed along with his captors in an Israeli assault that followed an attack by Palestinian militants, who emerged from a tunnel that Israeli troops were trying to destroy near the southern border town of Rafah. Two Israelis were killed in the attack, bringing the military’s casualty count to 63.
“Until now, we have no idea about the disappearance of the Israeli soldier,” the statement read. “We do not know his whereabouts or the conditions of his disappearance.” Saying the leadership had lost touch with its “troops deployed in the ambush,” the statement added, “Our account is that the soldier could have been kidnapped and killed together with our fighters.”
The statement repeated earlier assertions by Hamas leaders that the clash on Friday had occurred at 7 a.m., an hour before the onset of the cease-fire secured by the United Nations and Secretary of State John Kerry. The Israeli military said the attack occurred at 9:20 a.m., and Mr. Kerry, President Obama and the United Nations appeared to accept that account, with statements Friday that clearly blamed Hamas for the cease-fire's breakdown and demanded the group immediately release the captive.
There never was a captive. That was another Israeli lie.
So did Kerry, Obama, and the U.N. give Israel a good suck job or.... ???
A military statement said Israeli forces had struck more than 200 targets across Gaza in the 24 hours since the Rafah confrontation, including what it described as a research and development lab for weapons manufacturing at the Islamic University. Five mosques that the military said concealed weapons or Hamas outposts were also hit, according to the statement, along with a launcher used to fire rockets toward Tel Aviv around 6 a.m. Saturday. Around noon, a barrage of rockets flew into southern Israel.
The Gaza-based Health Ministry, which had reported 70 people killed in Rafah on Friday, said the casualties had continued there overnight, including seven members of one family who died when their home was bombed. More than 1,650 Palestinians have now been killed in the operation, the ministry said. Rafah’s main hospital was evacuated overnight amid the violence, leaving injured people scrambling to find treatment at small clinics on the other side of the city, according to Gaza-based journalists.
There was no electricity in the area, and Israeli news outlets reported that troops had sealed all the roads out of Rafah to the north. Israeli tanks were seen along the Philadelphia route, which runs along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt and has long been riddled with smuggling tunnels, though Egypt has shut many of them down over the past year. Firefights and heavy airstrikes were reported in the area.
The Israeli military on Saturday informed residents of the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, which had been under heavy bombardment, that they could safely return to their homes.
Would you believe the Israelis after all the houses, hospitals, and schools they have leveled?
Some analysts said this indicated that Israel was planning a unilateral withdrawal of its ground troops, but Mr. Netanyahu made clear Saturday that Israel would continue to target tunnels and would consider redeploying its forces in Gaza only when the military decided that the operation was complete.
“After completing the anti-tunnel operation, the I.D.F. will act and continue to act, in accordance with our security needs and only according to our defense needs,” Mr. Netanyahu said in his televised speech, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
He just flipped off the rest of the world.
An Israeli government official sent a statement to journalists on Saturday morning demanding “a strong and swift response” by the international community to the apparent capture of Lieutenant Goldin, including “practical steps” to return him.
I'm ABSOLUTELY FLABBERGASTED!
“Israel received a clear-cut assurance that Hamas has accepted a cease-fire for 72 hours without preconditions,” said the statement, also citing the involvement of Qatar, which has been a financial patron of Hamas and represented it in the diplomatic discussions. “Hamas and Qatar defied the U.S. and the U.N. by breaching a clear-cut commitment that was given to them.”
The Associated Press reported that Mr. Netanyahu had expressed frustration with Washington’s diplomatic efforts in a Friday phone call to Dan Shapiro, the United States ambassador to Israel. Mr. Netanyahu told Mr. Shapiro he expected the Obama administration to back Israel’s Gaza offensive and “not to ever second-guess me again” regarding Hamas, The A.P. said, citing people familiar with the conversation.
What an ARROGANT F***ER!!!!!!!!
I can see why Israel had the New York Times completely rewrite the piece!!
Of course, Obama dropped to his knees, unzipped Israeli fly, pulled tourers down, and locked lip on the limp Israeli pud. After hardening up, he turned around, bent over, and pulled cheek wide.
So WHEN does CHICAGO VANISH in a MUSHROOM CLOUD, Bibi?
I mean, Obummer has to GET the POINT, right?
Asked about the report, Mr. Shapiro declined to comment.
Where my print article ended!
Before Friday’s attack, the 12-member team was to be led by Azzam al-Ahmed of the Palestinian Fatah faction — who is aligned with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, and who helped negotiate an April reconciliation pact between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization — and was to include five Hamas members and two from Islamic Jihad, another Gaza-based militant group. But it was unclear on Saturday whether the Egyptians would allow in anyone based in Gaza.
The Qassam Brigades’ latest statement underscored the ongoing challenge of matching international diplomacy to the asymmetrical combat on the ground.
Mr. Kerry had said that during the planned cease-fire, Israel could continue operations to destroy tunnels into its territory — the stated goal of the ground campaign that it began on July 17.
Then it WASN'T REALLY a CEASE-FIRE, was it?
And he really thought Hamas would except that, or did he just say Israel is making him do it
Hamas had rejected an earlier pause in the fighting because of this condition demanded by Israel. Many in Gaza found the condition fundamentally unfair, viewing it as essentially saying that one side could continue its operation and the other could not.
Look, it's no surprise that the U.S. is an Israeli tool. The whole world can see it.
Qassam said it had agreed only to stop firing rockets on “Zionist towns and cities” for the 72-hour pause.
How rare you see that word, and even rarer to see an Amerikan know what it means.
“On the operational level,” it said in its statement, “we can’t cease firing against the troops advancing into Gaza, which work and move all the time so they could collide with our ambushes. This will definitely lead to clashes.”
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The CENSORSHIP must be WHY we are not seeing any of the PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAEL that are occurring every day throughout the world:
“We will not tolerate this sort of violence”
The LIPSTICK is OFF(?) that hypocritical PIG?
"Secretary of State John Kerry will be leaving Friday on a six-day trip to Myanmar, Australia, the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. Kerry plans to attend a meeting of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, where he will hold talks with regional diplomats [followed by meetings with] Australian and Solomon Islands officials and wreath laying ceremonies at the Guadalcanal American Memorial, as well as a talk to the East-West Center in Honolulu."
I tried to stand by him, but.... you know.
Well, we have reached the pinnacle....
[Although I cannot, yet, explain why the WAPO felt compelled to completely rewrite this report since yesterday, when I first read the April 27 article. Yesterday, the article (at the bottom of this report) was all about the new aid and its primary intended recipient, Harakat Hazm, a totally new entity among the Syrian terrorists/rebels. Today, under the same title, the article is now all about how the anti-Assad campaign is a lost cause, resulting in US overtures to Iran.—WHAT THE FUCK? Why not just trash the original report down the memory hole and write a brand new Iran-centric article? What we have is a completely new article with an old name. Why bother? Why did not the original April report set-off alarms before yesterday? They are obviously trying to lay a false trail on the Internet, in order to confuse those of us who are discerning enough to go WTF? How is this outcome preferable to simply creating another dead link (typical Establishment media M.O.)?
Harakat Hazm is another unknown, cobbled-together outfit of rejects, who weren’t radical enough to join Islamist State. In truth, they are the latest CIA cut-out. You can recognize them by the level of their funding and the quality of the training that they have received. These are the latest batch…probably trained in Jordan. They have ZERO written or translated material to be found on the Web. The only proof of their existence are the many YouTube videos, which are intended to document their proper contractual usage of Western-supplied heavy weapons. From what I have read, these videos are metaphorically like
POP “returnable pop bottles,” to be returned when obtaining a new “refill” Tube-launched, Optically-guided anti-tank Weapon (TOW).
Since Washington Post is the voice of The Establishment, then what do we make of all this?]-- Washington Post Completely Re-Writes Report On Obama Support for Syrian Terrorists, Since Yesterday—WHY?
It's not the first time such things have happened, and it won't be the last. I think we all know why.
"Did NYT's Jodi Rudoren write her worst piece ever?" by Ben White Friday, 10 January 2014
Even by the standards of The New York Times' news coverage, a recent Jodi Rudoren piece on "incitement" by Palestinians was abysmal.
Based on the article's word count, an estimated 70% of Rudoren's piece is dedicated to putting forward the Israeli case about Palestinian 'incitement', with a mere 20% allocated to a Palestinian rebuttal and counter-claims. Rudoren included in the article seven specific examples of alleged Palestinian incitement, and just two examples by Israelis.
In fact, the article's very first sentence, claiming that "Adolf Hitler is quoted on the websites of Palestinian Authority schools", was wrong: a correction placed at the end of the piece notes that in fact, "the quotes appeared on the Facebook pages of the schools, not on other school websites".
Rudoren regurgitates, almost entirely without critical scrutiny or merited scepticism, a report produced by the Israeli government – which itself was drawn from the work of the Jewish settler-run Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). PMW's head Itamar Marcus was derided in an Israeli court no less, as somewhat less of an 'expert'.
The only person quoted by Rudoren who is neither an Israeli nor a Palestinian official is David Pollock, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Rudoren did not see fit to inform the reader that WINEP is a pro-Israel think tank and AIPAC-offshoot that a decade ago was already described as shifting rightwards.
Pollock contends that incitement by Israelis can be dismissed as the work of "unofficial, extremist fringe individuals" that is "disowned and discouraged, for the most part" by government officials. Revealingly, this echoes, and thus affirms, a comment by Israeli Minister Yuval Steinitz earlier in the piece, who tells Rudoren that "the problems were coming from Palestinian government sources, not rogue individuals".
Should Rudoren have wanted to include any, there would be no shortage of examples of outright racism and incitement by Israeli officials, religious leaders, media pundits and academics targeting Palestinians (see here, here, and here).
Indeed, Steinitz, the Israeli minister so generously quoted by Rudoren, is no stranger to inflammatory 'incitement' himself, having previously described "blocking off" Israel's southern border to African refugees, who he called "infiltrators", as a "Zionist act". In 2003 – in Rudoren's own paper – Steinitz said Palestinian spouses living together in Israel threatened the country's "demographic balance", and that Palestinian families wishing to live together should move to a future Palestinian state.
Rudoren ignores all this, the glorification of the military in Israeli society, the racist rhetoric, and the total denial of basic Palestinian rights to self-determination. Like the Israeli officials and propagandists she happily channels, The New York Times' correspondent wants to hide the fact that Palestinians 'learn to hate' when Israeli soldiers shoot their friends, imprison their relatives, bulldoze their homes, and blockade their communities.
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All clear now?
And you wonder why I am sick of reading their shit?
