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“… you’d rather see me paralyzed …”

Bob Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street” is a rebuke to an insincere ex-friend. It’s impossible to read a recent New York Times editorial “A way out of Gaza?” without feeling the same disgust towards the editors of the Times. It begins. … Continue reading

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The NYT: Israel must make things easy for Obama

In Incursion into Gaza the editors of the NYT write: The longer the Israeli incursion, the more casualties mount (550 Palestinians and 5 Israelis have died so far); the more Hamas’s popularity grows among its supporters; the more moderate Arab … Continue reading

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NYT: Hamas upgrades = success / Israel defends = disaster

The NYT today features two articles about Israel’s war against Hamas that are rather revealing. One is Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Rocket Arsenal, and the second is In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer They are revealing both … Continue reading

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The media assault against Israel

The American media is doing all it can to undermine Israel’s case for war. I’m not just talking about those anti-Israel bloviators whom Noah Pollak amusingly call the “juicebox mafia,” but the opinion pages of major American newspapers have been … Continue reading

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Hamas and its boosters

Ethan Bronner of the NYT reports opines at the end of his recent report (via memeorandum): There is palpable satisfaction at the moment in the Israeli government and the military because the operation so far is seen as a success. … Continue reading

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Dependent independence

As co-blogger, Daled Amos notes in his excellent critique of the Times editorial The Peril of an Israeli Transition, the Times holds everyone responsible for a Palestinian state other than the Palestinians themselves. I’d like to add a few observations. … Continue reading

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Still unanswered

Newsbusters takes the NYT to task for ignoring the result of the Enderlein-Karsenty case. (Newsbusters acknowledged that the result was covered half-heartedly in the NYT’s blog.) Newsbuster’s author Warner Todd Huston asks: So what gives, New York Times? Why the … Continue reading

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Hoyt’s blindness again

Clark Hoyt still hasn’t addressed my question about how the NYT reports news, however he’s dug up a several weeks old column to question whether the Times was correct in running a specific opinion piece. At issue is an op-ed … Continue reading

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