What The NY Times Isn’t Telling You About Gaza - by Ira Stoll

Sometimes a single sentence in a New York Times article about Israel tells a whole story.

Ira Stoll..
Algemeiner..
10 August '18..

Sometimes a single sentence in a New York Times article about Israel tells a whole story.

Take, for example, this gem from a dispatch from Jerusalem by Isabel Kershner that appeared in the August 9 New York Times: “A high-level delegation of Hamas officials, including some living in exile, convened in Gaza to discuss Egyptian and United Nations proposals to stabilize the cease-fire with Israel in return for an easing of the Israeli and Egyptian-imposed blockade of Gaza.”

I read that and wondered how those Hamas officials “living in exile” managed to get into Gaza past what the Times describes as an uneased “Israeli and Egyptian-imposed blockade.” The Times doesn’t offer any explanation for their magical appearance. I also wondered what country or countries host these exiled Hamas officials when they are not in Gaza. The Times doesn’t say.

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