“A win-win-win-win-win.” That’s how the New York Times characterizes a supposed diplomatic masterstroke by an obscure Israeli minister that emptied Assad’s chemical weapon stockpiles. More P.R. for the Netanyahu government.
According to FT, an Israeli financial newspaper says a leaked government report estimates that BDS could cost Israel’s economy $1.4 billion a year. While Rand Corporation, the US think-tank, says the costs could be more than three times higher: $47bn over 10 years.
Israeli military says it sought witnesses to slaughter of four boys playing soccer on Gaza beach July 16, but Guardian’s Peter Beaumont was never contacted, and he contests many assertions in the report whitewashing Israel for responsibility in the killings.
‘NYT’s Rudoren Jodi Rudoren acts as a stenographer for an Israeli government report that whitewashes the military of war crimes in last summer’s invasion of Gaza, notably the slaughter of four boys playing soccer on the beach last July 16
The New York Times once again serves as a pipeline for Israeli propaganda. An article about suffering in Gaza leaves Israel’s role till the 14th paragraph, when it states that the blockade is justified for military reasons.
Why isn’t the New York Times telling its readers that a spring it featured in tweeting its story on Israeli water is not in Israel but occupied Palestine? And B’Tselem says that Israel has “exploited” the Palestinian resource for its own profit.
Israel discriminates sorely against Palestinians in their water supply and 90 percent of the water in Gaza is undrinkable but you’d learn none of this in an article that takes up the top of the front page of the New York Times on the Israeli water miracle
NYT’s Jodi Rudoren reports that “many international experts” say that Israeli settlement blocs in Palestine will be part of Israel under a peace deal. Why is the Times endorsing the idea that we get to negotiate about how much of what I stole from you I have to give back.
New York Times readers overwhelmingly fault Israeli apartheid and US support for it in the top readers’ comments on an article about segregated bus lines to the West Bank. Is this the end of hasbara? Certainly public consciousness has changed