NY Times Defames Israel's Flotilla-Inquiry Commission

Leo Rennert
American Thinker
14 June '10

Israel has created an inquiry commission to probe all the circumstances of a deadly raid on a Turkish ship trying to breach the blockade of Gaza. But before the commission has even begun to do its work, the New York Times already has dismissed it as a worthless "farce" -- and in the paper's news section no less.

Any fair, impartial observer would wait until the commission performs its task and releases its findings. But not the New York Times, which in its superior wisdom already divines that the Israeli commission is a government tool to divert blame elsewhere. Never mind that the Obama White House already has expressed satisfaction with the formation of the commission and views its composition as being able to meet international requirements ''for a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation." The Times knows better and uses its so-called news coverage to dismiss the commission as a rigged affair.

And how does the Times know that? By inserting in its June 14 article about the formation of the commission an attack on the panel by Haaretz, a daily far-left newspaper with limited circulation that consistently blackens Israel's actions and policies. ("Israel Names Panel to Examine Ship Raid" by Isabel Kershner, page A10).

Not surprisingly Haaretz, with its customary bias, published its slanderous accusations against the commission before the commission was even formed! So that ought to tell any fair-minded reporters something about its complete lack of credibility.

But not as far as the Times is concerned. Here is what Kershner filches from Haaretz to drive her poisonous stake into the commission's integrity:

"In an editorial published on Sunday (before four of the five commission members were even known), the liberal newspaper Haaretz said the government's efforts at investigating itself looked increasingly like a 'farce.'"

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