The Financial Times puts the word “settlers” in the headline and describes East Jerusalem as occupied:
Israel approves new housing for settlers days before peace talks
By John Reed in Jerusalem
Israel has issued tenders for the construction of nearly 1,200 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, defying US and Palestinian opposition to expansion of Jewish settlements three days before the scheduled start of peace talks.
New York Times headline calls settlements “housing bids”, and Jerusalem is “contested”:
New Israeli Housing Bids Raise Tensions Before Peace Talks
Isabel Kershner, Jerusalem
Israel published bids on Sunday for the construction of more than 1,000 housing units in contested East Jerusalem and several large West Bank settlements. Hours later, the government announced the names of 26 Palestinian prisoners to be released this week as part of a deal for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks here on Wednesday.
Thanks to Max Blumenthal.
Oh and NPR says Jerusalem is disputed: “Ahead Of Peace Talks, Israel Expands Settlements.” Host David Greene speaks of “nearly 1200 new housing units for Jewish families on land that’s still subject to negotiations over a new Palestinian state– and settlements like this always infuriate the Palestinians… new housing in disputed areas…” Thanks to BillM.
Kershner and the NYTimes propaganda organ are like a slow-motion nightmare – the propaganda arising from this entity is just relentless, recurrent, and it will NEVER get any better.
The disease is systemic in the NYTimes – from the owners to the editors to the writers – it’s rotten to the core.
Isabel Kershner just functions as part of the muzzle-training for Jodi Rudoren until Jodi can write on her own without need of Isabel’s muzzle. Anyone going to work in this snakepit eventually becomes a snake in order to just stop getting bit and to survive the experience.
Like with Iraq war we were lied into by the Israeli Lobby and it’s assets in the NYTimes – the NYTimes will LEAD the charge in defending Israeli Apartheid until Israel is over the highest humps in it’s way – as it has for decades.
20 years from now the NYTimes will admit some ‘mistakes’ and ‘possible bias’ in it’s coverage. This will only be AFTER the NYTimes did EVERYTHING IT COULD to enable and support Israeli Apartheid for AS LONG AS IT COULD
How many of those “bids” are for Palestinians?
Financial Times also refers to “Jewish settlements” as opposed to “Israeli settlements”. And nobody can call the writer out on that, because it’s true!
Imagine Apartheid South Africa demolishing and taking over black majority areas, and planning housing for whites only…oh! That happened, and as far as I recall, the msm were all over it – else how, in the pre-internet days, would we have known so much about what was going on there? Just goes to show how “newspapers of record” have morphed, post-internet, into strictly controlled, fearsome propaganda organs.
This manner of misreporting allows a naive readership to simply assume the future residents of these “housing units” will be determined, as anywhere else, by access to funds and choice, rather than excluded by ethnicity.
On its web site just weeks ago, the Times referred to the Golan Heights not as “occupied” but as “disputed.” The Times, like the NSA, has its own dictionary not to be compared with that which ordinary people use.
When Zionism is finally defeated the NYT and its Zionist shills will be scrambling to justify and excuse their fascist sympathies to a wider world that has run out of sympathy for Israel’s ethnic nationalism. Kershner, Bronner, Rudoren, Freidman, etc… will be remembered for their crass racism and for promoting an ethnic cleansing campaign that will be remembered as so many other tragic injustices of its kind.
I doubt Kershner loses much sleep over this. Perhaps she imagines that Palestinians will, at last, “fight no more forever” and the problem of their savagery and their odor will be sent away to Arabia to a shimmering mirage of reservations beyond the borders of a purified Eretz Israel and that she will have done her duty to the state.