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| Morality-free NYTimes homage to would-be killers. How to explain the role played by those who write the disgraceful paeansto violence and hatred? |
This Ongoing War..
05 August '13..
How sentimental - or acceptable in terms of journalistic integrity - is it that a Jodi Rudoren article in the New York Times on Sunday ["In a West Bank Culture of Conflict, Boys Wield the Weapon at Hand"] describes the deaths of "a man and his 1-year-old son who died" (in fact Asher Palmer and his son Yonatan) without saying the ring leader of the gang hurling the "stones" was convicted of murder? And that others from the same gang are on trial on similar charges?
Menuha Shvat, who has lived in a settlement near here since 1984, long ago lost count of the stones that have hit her car’s reinforced windows. “It’s crazy: I’m going to get pizza, and I’m driving through a war zone,” said Ms. Shvat, who knew a man and his 1-year-old son who died when their car flipped in 2011 after being pelted with stones on Road 60. “It’s a game that can kill.” [Sunday's NYTimes]
The killer is Wa'al Al-Araja. Understanding his story, which involves months of training, cement blocks, large rocks and fast-moving cars, is key to putting the morality tale of the "Abu Hashem boys" and their "hobby" into a grown-up context. Their little village of Beit Ummar, among other "little villages" so beloved of the NYT's editors, features regularly in the news in these parts [see this for instance]. The context is rarely bucolic.
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