The Nation has scooped the N.Y. Times and Washington Post with a fine piece of reporting on the great Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Here is the most important paragraph:
Gideon Levy says he is less constrained in his punditry than most columnists are in
the United States and Europe. While working in Gaza early this year
with a French film crew that was making a documentary about him, Levy
declared on camera that the Gazans’ plight made him ashamed to be an
Israeli. "A few days later," he says, "I got a call from the producer,
who said he couldn’t use the quote for fear it would upset the Jewish
lobby in France. That would never happen at Ha’aretz…
Once again proving that Israel has a more active debate about these issues than we do in the U.S.
