“The territories will burn like they’ve never burned before,” Gideon Levy warns in Haaretz about the deal to give rightwinger Avigdor Lieberman the Defense Ministry, but once again the New York Times hides Israel’s ugly face in a closet.
Tom Friedman reread his work of the last 20 years and realized he has been wrong again and again about the Middle East, including his Iraq war support, and as a result is quitting his column in order to become an “ordinary person” again
NY Times runs a full-page ad smearing Max Blumenthal as an anti-Semite because he is critical of Israel; and the ad is the paper’s first mention of his important 2013 book, Goliath.
NYT piece by Diaa Hadid says Palestinians in Haifa get to enjoy freedoms they wouldn’t in Arab society; but a main source for the piece says on Facebook that the Times quoted him out of context and censored his support for cultural resistance to Israel.
Hillary Clinton is a tool of Haim Saban, and Donald Trump says so in so many words. Will Democrats say the same thing?
Without an Iran deal, the world could have seen a nuclear exchange in the Middle East. President Obama wiretapped Israeli PM Netanyahu not out of political rivalry but to stave off the threat to world peace posed by Netanyahu and his American allies trying to sabotage the deal.
Just when the Israel lobby was getting back to its feet after Iran Deal, Obama administration wiretaps reveal Israeli officials working with US Jewish groups against the deal. WSJ says Obama authorized taps as a serving a “compelling national security purpose.”
Breaking the Silence is a courageous Israeli veterans’ group that should have been the subject of a NYT profile for the last ten years. It’s only getting to the story now, with Jodi Rudoren back in the U.S.
Why is Josh Block CEO of the Israel Project feverishly blaming ISIS for the San Bernardino, California, massacre before anyone knows the facts?
Maybe the next NYT bureau chief in Jerusalem should leave the house taken from Palestinians without compensation and live in East Jerusalem? Peter Baker, White House correspondent, is said to be the top candidate for the job.