NY Times Op-Ed Blames Shimon Peres for…Everything - by Daniel Pomerantz

...Like any op-ed author, Hanan Ashrawi is entitled to her opinion, but a publisher like the New York Times has an ethical obligation to push back when any article distorts facts, even in an op-ed. In this particular case, Ashrawi has the special distinction of violating not only historical facts, but even the laws of space, time and physics.

Daniel Pomerantz..
Honest Reporting..
06 October '16..




The writer of an opinion piece or editorial is entitled to express personal opinions, but in the words of the famous senator, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”

In her op-ed in the New York Times, Palestinian lawmaker Hanan Ashrawi trashes the memory of Shimon Peres, which seems more than a little absurd at time when almost the entire world is commemorating his legacy as a visionary and peacemaker. Yet Ashrawi is entitled to her opinion, as out of touch as it may be. The problem is that she also distorts the facts, and that’s not a matter of opinion.

The point of Ashrawi’s op-ed is quite simply this: the blame for the collapse of the Oslo peace process, for the Second Intifada, for Palestinian terror in general, and for the thousands of Israelis who died, and continue to die as a result, lies solely with Israel.

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