11 October '12..
For years the New York Times, as well as other media sources, have chosen to sanitize vicious armed attacks against the Israeli public. Whether by explosives, guns, or knives, the application of the word "militants" in place of terrorists seems to be the word of choice in order not to be unduly judgmental about whatever barbaric, sorry, militant act may have been committed for example:
Also Sunday, an Israeli 16-year-old, Daniel Viflic, who was critically wounded April 7 when an antitank missile fired by Hamas militants out of Gaza hit a school bus in Israel, died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital.
And another:
The Shin Bet said in a statement that the two suspects (the Fogel muderers YH), a high school pupil and a first-year student at The Open University, were identified with a Palestinian leftist militant group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, although it was not clear whether the organization had any role in the attack.
The PFLP for the record is a group which has spent years blowing up pizza shops and restaurants of course murdering and maiming those eating there at the time.
Tuesday however, the New York Times has somewhat redeemed themselves from the accusation of this being a product of their particularly skewed view of Israel, and shown instead to be simply ... the New York Times.
From Leo Rennert:
NY Times describes Taliban killers who shot young Pakistani girl as 'militants'
By Leo Rennert
In the long struggle against Islamic terrorists, this is one for the books: A 14-year-old Pakistani girl who stood up and demanded equal education rights for girls was gunned down at point blank by Taliban savages. She's gone through three hours of surgery to remove a bullet near her brain. And now she is fighting for her life.
In reporting this atrocity, the New York Times describes her would-be killers who threaten to try again to murder her if she survives as "militants." Girls, according to the Taliban, have no right to an education. And for anyone with a minimum sense of decency, to kill a youngster for wanting an education is an abomination.
One wonders if Malala Yousafzai, who has become a national heroine in Pakistan, would welcome this "militant" euphemism, which is intended to soften the bestial character of the Taliban. Who is the Times trying to protect?
"Militant" as a label for these monsters shows the Times badly needs a wake-up call about what the war on terror really involves.
Leo Rennert is a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief of McClatchy Newspapers
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