“I have three words of advice for you,” Netanyahu told Oren in one of their first meetings. “Media. Media. Media.” Any criticisms of Israel that got traction, Oren had to call the Congress or the major press
The New York Times report on the UN Human Rights Council report on Gaza conflict equates numbers of Palestinian rockets fired to Israeli air strikes, and leaves out Israeli death toll (72 to 2251 Palestinian deaths) in dishonest effort to equate the suffering during the war
“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