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A Year-end Flurry of Times Israel-Bashing
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avi
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What do you expect from a "jewish" owned newspaper that covered up the Holocaust. the Sulzbergers are defacto kapos with blood on their hands and they have the chutzpah to moralize to Israel!
Posted by: avi on December 31, 2005 01:50 PM
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Gabe
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The NYT and other major US dailies are also virtually covering up the repulsive fact that the US military in Iraq is *aiding* the Shiite militias like the Badr Brigades, as a few other posters have been dutifully drawing attention to. This is the secret mission of the Bush Administration, and Israel-hating Condoleezza Rice, to destroy Israel once and for all-- hand Iraq to Iran's most dangerous allies in the country, give Iran possession of Iraq's oilfields in the South, give Iran effective political control in Baghdad, then withdraw due to "political pressure at home." So Iran emerges not only unscathed, but in effective possession of Iraq's vast petroleum wealth and treasury-- ready to launch a major attack on Israel.
Unless the US vigorously attacks the Shiite militias, Iran will emerge as the victor with the easiest "fight" (i.e., none at all) to conquer a country in world history. Then the real trouble gets going.
Posted by: Gabe on December 31, 2005 03:55 PM
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srk
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C'mon Gabe. The US certainly does not want to hand Iraq over to Iran.
Posted by: srk on December 31, 2005 10:07 PM
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kuhnkat
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Uhhh Gabe, and the fact they are assisting the Shia'a brigades is why they went into the jails run by these animals and exposed their torture and mistreatment of prisoners??
Look, I wouldn't put it past some of our politicos and even upper military commanders to be that stupid, BUT, how do you shut up our soldiers after they get home?? These aren't all Delta Force and Special Forces types who pretty well keep secure everything they are involved in.
Our marines and army types are generally pretty outspoken and would blow the lid off of any kind of crap like that within a couple DAYS!!! They have access to the Internet and have their own Blogs. You would have been reading about it as soon as it happened!!!
Find our soldiers telling us about it and I will believe it. Most of our guys want to blow away those brigades so bad you couldn't keep them from screaming about any assistance they were ordered to give those animals!!!
Posted by: kuhnkat on January 3, 2006 12:03 AM
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radiorote
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Do people still read Counterpunch?
It was the NY Times which broke the Saudi Road Map story when written by Thomas Friedman.
The Saud's thought a Jew would give it 'credibility', before the Saud's and Bush Administration shoved it down Jerusalem's throat.
Posted by: radiorote on January 3, 2006 04:32 AM
A Year-end Flurry of Times Israel-Bashing
Weekend readers of the New York Times are getting a special treat: Two examples of the persistent anti-Israel bias that has turned the New York Times into a daily edition of Counterpunch.
That's no exaggeration, folks. The Times is ringing in the new year by abandoning all pretense of objectivity and resorting to the kind of rhetoric rarely found outside the Cockburn website or The Nation.
The front page of the Sunday Arts & Leisure section, not online at this writing but distributed to New York readers today, is devoted to a lengthy attack on the West Bank security barrier. Times critic Nicolai Ouroussoff heaps abuse on the fence, using overheated rhetoric such as "formula for ghettoization and a symbol of colonialism."
Ouroussoff, who had previously inserted an anti-American rant into a column on Ground Zero (a "society that has turned its back on any notion of cultural openness" and "an empire enthralled with its own power"), again uses an "architecture column" to engage in far-left polemics.
In the time-honored practice of Israel-bashers, he quotes two Israelis to support his view --and lo and behold, both just happen to share his view that the security barrier is a lousy idea. Ouroussoff concludes by climbing up on the soapbox and spouting the following idiocy:
Of course, it also saves lives -- but such trivia doesn't matter to Counterpunch or its daily edition.The second example of Times Israel-bashing this weekend is a story by Steven Erlanger entitled, "No Buses Roll From Gaza to West Bank, Despite Deal."
This story is faithful to Times editorial policy -- to underplay Palestinian violence and Road Map violations, while overplaying Israeli responses. In this instance, Israelis were understandably reluctant to blithely bus Gazans to the West Bank, at the same time Palestinian officials do nothing about a constant barrage of missiles from Gaza.
Note this phrasing:
"Issue of security" is Times-speak for "Palestinians trying at every opportunity to murder civilians by lobbing inaccurate missiles."
A pretty good end-of-the year package -- news and arts pages, all united in their purpose of demonizing Israel.
As has been my usual practice, I'm sending a copy of this item to the Empty Suit, Times spokesman (alias "public editor") Barney Calame. Barney hasn't said a single word about the Times's anti-Israel bias since he came on board seven months ago. Hey, they don't call him a parody of a public editor for nothing!
Cross-posted on Mediacrity.
Posted by Mediacrity at December 31, 2005 01:38 PM