Here, yet again, is an article you can read in an Israeli newspaper that you will never see in the New York Times.
The Haaretz headline tells it all: “Netanyahu should not be allowed to start a war with Iran to save himself.” The two authors note that Israel’s prime minister goes into his third election campaign in a year facing three criminal indictments, and
The concern is that he could initiate a major armed conflict with Iran in the hope of convincing the Israeli electorate that there is no substitute for his leadership in spite of the costs to Israel of such a war.
What makes the article even more compelling is that its authors are hardly left-wing extremists. Shlomo Brom is a retired Brigadier General in Israel’s army, and Shimon Stein is a retired ambassador who is a senior fellow at the Institute for Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Meanwhile, what does today’s report in the New York Times say about the risk that Benjamin Netanyahu might start a war? Nothing. The long article by Isabel Kershner notes that Netanyahu just won a convincing victory in the primary within his Likud party, smashing challenger Gideon Saar by nearly three to one. The article’s tone is respectful, even admiring, as Kershner notes that the prime minister, “like a political phoenix, rose to fight another day.” Kershner devotes most of her report to handicapping Netanyahu’s chances in the electoral horse race (although she nowhere says that a central element of his strategy once again is sure to be stoking racism against the 20 percent of Israelis who are Palestinian).
And here’s another article that appeared in the Israeli press that the Times will never touch; the online +972 Magazine reports on the inspiring campaign within Israel to “expose Israel’s arms sales to the world’s most repressive regimes.” A brave human rights attorney named Eitay Mack and others have carried out a campaign over the past decade with the result that:
Israel’s arms industry has become a topic of public debate. Government officials and politicians, for the first time in a long time, are required to give answers.
The Times reporters in Israel, Isabel Kershner and the paper’s bureau chief, David Halbfinger, don’t even have to read Hebrew to follow these stories. Both Haaretz and +972 Magazine publish in English.
Thanks for doing the hard work and revealing the NYT for what it truly is… @-%&!!! I fear that this racist and indicted PM will do anything to maintain power and rid himself of more and more Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, and Lebanese…
I do read elsewhere and this popped up on The Guardian a bit ago:
“New York Times columnist accused of eugenics over piece on Jewish intelligence
Bret Stephens faces backlash after suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are smarter than other people
The rightwing New York Times columnist Bret Stephens has sparked furious controversy online for a column praising Ashkenazi Jews for their scientific accomplishments, which critics say amounts to embracing eugenics.
In a column titled The Secrets of Jewish Genius and using a picture of Albert Einstein, Stephens stepped in the eugenics minefield by claiming that Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than other people and think differently.
Citing Sarah Bernhardt, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, Rosalind Franklin, Benjamin Disraeli and Karl Marx, Stephens asked: “How is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of one per cent of the world’s population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?”
He answered: “The common answer is that Jews are, or tend to be, smart. When it comes to Ashkenazi Jews, it’s true … Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different.”
That prompted furious accusations that Stephens was using the same genetics arguments that informed Nazism and white supremacist thinking. …
…Stephens is a regular target of liberals’ ire for other columns attacking climate change science, saying the activist group Black Lives Matter has “some thuggish elements” and for writing a piece about “the disease of the Arab mind”.”
There’s more @- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/28/bret-stephens-new-york-times-jewish-intelligence-eugenics
To be honest, I think it is far sought that Netanyahu would start a war with Iran.
He’s always shown restraint when it comes to starting outright wars:
– he likes the US to do the fighting,
– he started the ground invasion in Gaza only at a real good opportunity: the MH-17 crash (although before that he did stoke the conflict seriously)
– he likes special operations and small scale actions
@JaapBo
Agreed!! Netanyahu has been doing his best to get the U.S. to attack Iran for years. Thankfully, to no avail.
He has tried every trick in the book, including cartoon bombs, and dire warnings, saying that Iran was only a few months away from bombing the world, and let’s not forget that idiotic glare he gave the international community at the UN. A jackass who wants the US to once again use their blood and money to get yet another Muslim nation. He will now use Hamas as some excuse to perhaps even bomb Gaza, or promise more illegal settlements.
By now his people should be wise to these tactics, but apparently they don’t care.
Kay24
By now his people should be wise to these tactics, but apparently they don’t care.
Perhaps his people are, or tend to be, stupid?
His people might be at a disadvantage compared to others when it comes to thinking better?
Maybe there are some thuggish elements in their group, who (like Netanyahu) have diseased minds?