J Street will make no headway without the New York Times. J Street can always count on the Nation and has found the New Yorker sadly awol*. The Times did great work yesterday: "Warnings not enough for Gaza families." And the Times has a pretty good story today:
said it had hit some civilian targets because they housed rockets, launchers or
militants. It offered limited evidence of its claim.â [emphasis mine]
Good Richard Silverstein, who passed this along, writes that the news coverage is outstripping the editorials, and that this is the achievement of one of the Times correspondents, Ethan Bronner. "I
think the word 'limited' was being charitable. He didnât
quite have the nerve to call them liars." Though maybe it's Isabel Kershner, who shares the byline with Gaza City's Taghreed El-Khodary?
Again: This is the time for one of you smart reporters to seize the Tom Friedman laurels. Show independence, and tell us what is in front of your nose. Then write a book and change American Jewish opinion.
*(memo to Rick Hertzberg, whom I last saw at a Nation function: Join us, Rick, join your old classmate Wallace Shawn, eschew your Charybdis Marty Peretz and your Scylla whose name shall go unspoken)
