NY Times beats drums for stripping Israel of its Jewish essence

Leo Rennert
American Thinker
25 October '10

The headline atop the Oct. 25 New York Times dispatch by Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner tells it all: "Some Question Insistence On Israel as Jewish State."

It's an old journalistic dodge that when a reporter wants to inject his/her opinion in a presumed "news" article, such opinion is attributed to an unidentified entity wrapped up in a single word -- "Some" say; "some" believe, "some" argue, etc. "Some" is merely a camouflaged stand-in for the reporter.

In this case, "some" is a convenient synonym for Isabel Kershner, who uses it to dispense her particular liberal, secular agenda for Israel and her own wisdom that Israel would be better off if it stopped insisting on its Jewish essence, as Prime Minister Netanyahu does in demanding Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in any final peace deal.

The problem for Kershner is that, while she tries to pump up the prevalence of her own opinion among senior Israeli officials, she can find only one who echoes her point of view -- Defense Secretary Ehud Barak, who recently expressed concern that insistence on Israel's Jewish character might become an insuperable obstacle in peace negotiations -- whenever they eventually might take place.

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