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Lord almighty, MSM covers dissing of Biden

by Anonymous10 March 2010

Notice how the mainstream press (Time Magazine) dissed the Israeli government and Bibi. This is new. Change that we can believe in (We hope):
Guardian:

It doesn’t seem to realise it, but Israel cannot afford to keep on behaving in this disobliging manner towards its friends. Whether it is blatant disregard for international rules concerning the protection [...]

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Every bad thought you have had about Ethan Bronner

by Anonymous9 March 2010

has not been wrong. After seeing the spurious evenhandedness of his comments tonight on Matthews in Jerusalem. And the complacent smile with which he showed himself well satisfied with his performance.

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‘NYT’ says Barak called Iran an ‘existential threat’. He didn’t say that

by Philip Weiss8 March 2010

In his role as propagator of the Israeli narrative for the American establishment, New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner recently wrote about Iranian nuclear plans in alarmist terms–"Memo from Jerusalem: Hoping Sanctions Work, But Readying Gas Masks":

Still, for all the agreement between Jerusalem and Washington, there remains a significant difference. It emerged last month when [...]

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On Israel/Palestine, ‘NYT’ prefers obfuscation

by Alex Kane8 March 2010

Maybe the New York Times should just quit covering Israel/Palestine. They never get it right.
Take this weekend’s edition: Deborah Solomon, the Times’ magazine writer who publishes the “Questions For” column, interviews Desmond Tutu, and Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd writes her second article on Middle East politics from Saudi Arabia.
Tutu is a South African [...]

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Richard Cohen used ‘apartheid’ description of West Bank twice in ‘04

by Philip Weiss6 March 2010

A few days ago Richard Cohen opined that Israel has its faults, but apartheid isn’t one of them. Well, Richard Cohen really ought to read Richard Cohen. Here are two explicit references to apartheid in Cohen’s reporting from the West Bank. From a June 2004 column about settlements:

"The longer they are out there, the [...]

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‘NYT’ removes Israel lobby from Turkey genocide story

by Philip Weiss6 March 2010

JTA has an OK piece on the Armenian genocide vote by Ron Kampeas. Playing catchup to MJ Rosenberg at Huffington Post, who said that the lobby is sticking it to Turkey, Kampeas goes over the role of the Israel lobby in the House Foreign Affairs vote, and while he doesn’t reach Rosenberg’s conclusion, which I [...]

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‘JPost’ and ‘BBC’ say the lobby worked against Armenian genocide resolution before

by Bruce Wolman and Phil Weiss5 March 2010

The Jerusalem Post says that the Turks didn’t ask Israel for help to block the Armenian genocide resolution in the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee– as they did on a similar measure in 2007:

In years past Ankara had looked to Israel, and Jewish groups in Washington, to fight the resolution that came up almost every [...]

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Louisiana had apartheid

by Philip Weiss4 March 2010

It is important work to harp on Richard Cohen’s angry defense in the Washington Post of Israel against the "apartheid" label because Cohen is a reflection of how out of touch American liberal discourse is with the reality in Israel/Palestine. In Israeli discourse, even the Petraeuses and Bushes use the word apartheid (Ehud Olmert and [...]

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Party line is PEP (Progressive except for Palestine)

by Philip Weiss3 March 2010

Maureen Dowd is afraid to say a word against Israeli "democracy," but blasts Saudi gender "apartheid." Yet another sign of the blindness to the real conditions in Israel. And a Saudi even tries to tell her, about Israel’s growing intolerance.

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You be the judge

by Ira Glunts2 March 2010

Steven Gutkin, AP:

JERUSALEM — Jerusalem’s mayor unveiled a plan Tuesday to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center in one of the disputed city’s most volatile neighborhoods, drawing criticism from Palestinians and the United Nations.

Ethan Bronner, New York Times:

JERUSALEM — The mayor of Jerusalem is offering 120 Palestinian families in [...]

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How would Washington Post respond if soldiers came for a columnist at 2 in the morning because of his writings?

by Philip Weiss2 March 2010

Today in the Washington Post Richard Cohen says that Jimmy Carter "waved the bloody shirt of racism" when he said that Israel was practicing apartheid in the Occupied Territories. Cohen is blinding himself and his readers to the harsh conditions of the occupation. Consider Mazin Qumsiyeh an outspoken Palestinian geneticist, author, and activist who is [...]

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Hooray for the ‘NY Times’

by Philip Weiss2 March 2010

The Times publishes
a piece on the collective punishment
of the Gazan people by Fares Akram, a wonderful investigator who lost his father in the Gaza onslaught.

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Tom Friedman oversaw NYT’s purchase of J’lem house with Nakba legacy

by Philip Weiss2 March 2010

A very moving piece of social history–and journalistic investigation– by Ali Abunimah, showing that Tom Friedman (who began his career lecturing his Minnesota classmates about Israel’s victory in the Six-Day war, and cemented it by explaining to American Jews that Lebanon ‘82 was necessary because Israel lives in a tough neighborhood, and extended it by [...]

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Keller and Karsh–the ‘Times’ kennels the dogs of war

by Ahmed Moor2 March 2010

Every now and then something delicious lands in my lap. But it’s better than just delicious; it’s decomposing, decayed, spongy and putrescent. I’m sick with fascination so I pick it up and turn it over and squeeze it and pull on it. I want to bite into it.
By now you may have [...]

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