Ariel University Center (Photo: Wikipedia)
‘NYT’ Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner’s reassignment is unlikely to change the fundamental bias of the Paper of Record. When has the Times ever filed a serious report on Israeli apartheid policies, and will it ever? Meanwhile, Haaretz today runs an editorial page broadside against the colony/settlement Ariel’s University expansion plans that you will never see from the editors or reporters of the Paper of Record:
[The Israeli government] doesn’t miss an opportunity to sear the consciousness of Palestinians and Israelis alike with the idea that a diplomatic agreement on a two-state solution is no longer on the table….
Ariel is not just another “location.” It is situated in occupied territory that is a focus of controversy both within Israeli society and in the international community. The State of Israel has barred Palestinians from most of the territory of the West Bank. They are permitted to build Ariel’s houses, but not to live there. Ariel, like all the other settlements, is a closed military zone as far as they are concerned.
The editorial’s basic message: 1) yes, Virginia, there is an “occupation” (the NYT frequently elides that word from its coverage, 2) Israel’s policy of separation (Apartheid) in the West Bank is untenable, 3) Israel is willfully destroying, or has already destroyed, any viable possibility of a Palestinian state.
Until the NYT gets serious about reporting/critiquing these three and similar realities, a changing of the guard in its staff will matter not.
The more brutal and malign the institution the harder the fall.
The NYT will eventually do what every newspaper living in fear does .
“Can a powerful and profitable brand really morph in three days into something so toxic that it is worth more to its owners dead than alive? Rupert Murdoch appeared to think so this week as he euthanised the News of the World newspaper in an attempt to quell the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed his media empire in the UK.
It was probably the right business decision, but it has not contained the crisis. On Friday, Renault said it would not advertise in any News International newspapers. UK media regulator Ofcom, meanwhile, said it would talk to police and other investigators to determine whether News Corp was still “fit and proper” to own a broadcaster. ”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3/c2700176-a99c-11e0-a04a-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1mTcXcWx7
This is the real world and it is the world Israel thinks it is above.
whose fault is it that 2 states has disappeared? this stuff, more than anything makes me wonder why calling for equal rights makes us a cult.
I believe it was CNN that said it would refer to the Gilo settlement as an Israeli neighborhood. This was in an official memo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Kvb7EF_AY#t=1m32
RE: “Ariel is not just another ‘location.’ It is situated in occupied territory that is a focus of controversy both within Israeli society and in the international community.” ~ Haaretz
MY SNARK: Glory Be to Pastor John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas, one of Ariel’s most generous benefactors!
SEE: Worldwide Biblical Zionists, by Rachel Tabachnick, Talk To Action, 10/19/09
LINK – http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/10/19/175932/60