NY Times Editorial Condemning Pence Israel Trip Tells Its Own Sad Tale - by Ira Stoll

Not much has changed in the warmth of the US-Israel relationship, as the remarkable similarities and consistencies between the Gore and Pence speeches demonstrate. What has changed is the Times. The newspaper is, alas, more hostile than ever to that special relationship, more determined to rip asunder what Gore called eternal ties and what Pence called “an unshakeable bond between our people.”

Ira Stoll..
Algemeiner.com..
25 January '18..

The American vice president flies to Israel, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and gives a speech speaking of the parallels between Israel and America. The speech is full of Hebrew and biblical references.

Vice President Mike Pence this week? Well, yes. But Vice President Al Gore did pretty much the same thing in 1998.

The big difference is how The New York Times covered the two events.

The Times greeted Vice President Pence’s trip with a sharply critical editorial headlined “Mike Pence’s Self-Serving Trip to the Holy Land.”

The Times editorial complained that Pence’s address “was replete with biblical references to Jewish ties to the Holy Land. He referred to God’s promise to the Jews that ‘he would gather and bring you back to the land which your fathers possessed’ and to ‘the Jewish people’s unbreakable bond to’ Jerusalem.”

The Times editorial went on, “Even more striking was what Mr. Pence didn’t say. He mostly chose to ignore Israelis’ shared history with the Palestinians, only reaffirming support for a two-state solution ‘if both sides agree.’”

In fact a careful reading of Pence’s speech discloses that, contrary to the false claim by the Times, the vice president did not ignore, or even “mostly chose to ignore,” the Palestinians.

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