Barry Rubin has at the NY Times, especially outgoing reporter Steven Erlanger.
Speaking about restrictions, it might be worth mentioning that there are no such Israeli restrictions on the West Bank. Why is that? It is because the Palestinian Authority regime there doesn’t systematically encourage and facilitate terrorist and rocket and mortar attacks on Israel. This, then, is the central issue pertaining to the Gaza Strip, and not the apparently motiveless meanness that much media coverage makes it seem to be Israel’s reason for so acting.There are 16 paragraphs remaining in the New York Times version. Do you think that we will be told that some of the restricted goods Palestinians bought in Egypt are guns, ammunition, explosives, and material for making rockets? Of course not.
Since he’s having so much fun, I’d love to pile on. In today’s report about yesterday’s terror attack in Dimona Isabel Kershner noted:
The Israeli authorities had warned in recent days that Palestinian militants had taken advantage of the breach of the border, which occurred after Hamas blasted sections of a wall between Gaza and Egypt on Jan. 23. Egyptian forces resealed the border on Sunday.
“Had warned!” Why is this couched in any sort of a qualification? Go to page 2 of the report.
According to his mother, Mr. Aghwani left the Gaza Strip for the first time in his life on the first day that the border with Egypt was breached, shopping for her in the Egyptian border town of Rafah. He went in and out of Egypt several times over the next few days, leaving the house for the last time on Wednesday, the family said.
What Israeli officials “warned” was confirmed by the mother of one of the terrorists. There’s little doubt that during his trips back and forth to Egypt, he was recruited to carry out yesterday’s attack. By qualifying what happened as an Israeli “warning” the reporter adds an element of uncertainty that shouldn’t be in the article.
Elder of Ziyon notes what the NYT and other MSM outlets are leaving out of their stories. (Funny, when it came to giving op-ed space to Hamas biggies it was essential to our democracy to allow them a platform for their sanitized propaganda, but when it comes to telling us how the residents of Gaza really feel, they get sort of skittish.) Simply Jews takes his whacks at an NYT Israel correspondent of the past. He does have a gift of understatement doesn’t he?
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
I wonder where Erlanger will go next? Perhaps al Jazeera with Marash?
They had a fence between Egypt and Gaza? Damn, I missed all the msm articles about how that was soul-destroying, peace-retarding, and an offense to decent people everywhere. I also somehow missed all the Presbyterian and Episcopalian protests about it.
Erlanger is too anti-Israel for al-Jazeera.