American Thinker..
13 March '12..
On March 12, after three days of fighting between Israel and rocket-firing terrorists in Gaza, the New York Times had ample choices to run one or more pictures to illustrate these events.
The Times could have featured pictures of Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committee terrorist launching some of the 150 rockets from amidst civilian areas in Gaza. Or pictures of the rockets flying in the direction of Ashdod, Beersheva, Ashkelon, or Yavne. Or pictures of frightened Israeli tots cowering with their parents in bomb shelters. Or funerals of the 16 Gaza rocket-firing terrorists killed by Israeli airstrikes. Or hundreds of truckloads of food supplies and other necessities still crossing from Israel into Gaza.
Since this was the only picture in the March 12 edition, it gives exactly a false impression of the actual fighting -- i.e. that the salient point about the fighting involves civilian casualties in Gaza, when the opposite is true. In the first three days of the Gaza flare-up, Israeli airstrikes killed 16 Palestinian terrorists belonging to Islamic Jihad and the PRC. The only collateral casualties were the boy in the Times photo and a guard of an orchard.
Rarely in the annals of military combat has any army used as much caution and precision targeting as the IDF in its retaliatory airstrikes so as to minimize collateral civilian damage and casualties. And the IDF has managed to do this while Gaza rocket-firing terrorists are deeply embedded in heavily populated areas.
The Times, however, is so determined to stick it to Israel that it abandons all journalistic objectivity, proportionality and fairness.
Link: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/at_ny_times_the_only_photo_of_gaza_fighting_thats_fit_to_print.html
Leo Rennert is a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief of McClatchy Newspapers
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The NYT is run by a Liberal bunch of Democrats who do not give a Darn if Israel or the Jews Exist in the World.. They need to move their newspaper to Gaza and go and live with these crazy, hateful anti-semitic people.. There is nothing fair or balanced about these Journalists.. Let's face it .. they hate Israel and The Jewish people and I think it is time some people Boycott the New York Times! I am going to delete it from my list of emails.. Right Now!
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