The Continuing Shame of The New York Times - by Jerold Auerbach

“All the News That’s Fit to Print,” the Times motto ever since Adolph Ochs purchased the newspaper in 1896, once again seems to mean all the news that fits its criticism of Israel and indifference to the suffering of its people inflicted by those who seek to destroy it.

Jerold Auerbach..
JNS.org..
03 May '18..

Criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s “vile words” in his address to the Palestinian National Council, The New York Times‘ editorial brigade seemed (finally) to have grasped Palestinian reality. Citing Abbas’ “reprehensible anti-Semitic myths and conspiracy theories,” it concluded what Israelis long ago learned: Abbas has “shed all credibility as a trustworthy partner” in peace negotiations.

For a newspaper long opposed to the very idea of a Jewish state, buried the Holocaust in its inside pages, and has incessantly blamed Israel for failed peace negotiations with Palestinians, it was a welcome change. It finally recognized that Abbas’s antisemitic “tendencies are not new,” even citing his doctoral dissertation that “seemed to question” (i.e. denied) the Nazi extermination of six million Jews.

That said, however, the editorial glided into conventional Times mode. First there was a reference to “Israel’s hard-line government,” which has “expanded settlement building” — a familiar Times lament. Then it cited “pressures” on Abbas, “some of his own making and many others caused by Israel,” that presumably make governing difficult for the Palestinian president, now in the 13th year of his four-year term. But at least it reached the appropriate conclusion: “It is time for him to leave office.”

If the (belated) Times editorial criticism of Abbas surely is deserved, its coverage of the Hamas-inspired weekly violence on Israel’s border with Gaza has been woefully myopic.

(Continue to Full Column)

Updates throughout the day at http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com. If you enjoy "Love of the Land", please be a subscriber. Just put your email address in the "Subscribe" box on the upper right-hand corner of the page.Twitter updates at LoveoftheLand as well as our Love of the Land page at Facebook which has additional pieces of interest besides that which is posted on the blog. Also check-out This Ongoing War by Frimet and Arnold Roth. An excellent blog, very important work. 

.