Benjamin Netanyahu is more desperate than ever. Will he provoke conflict to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal?
Tom Friedman says that Israel and the US are in the same boat, trying to build “pluralistic.. idealistic” societies. This is a rhetorical strategy to suppress the apartheid charge against Israel from a leading human rights group. And Friedman has freely acknowledged that his job entails promoting Israel. “Israel had me at hello,” he has said.
It’s become monotonous. The ‘NY Times’ reports on U.S.-Iranian relations — and leaves out the Israel angle entirely.
Israeli security officials let out a sigh of relief when nuclear deal was signed in 2015, but Netanyahu uses Iran for political purposes. So says former deputy chief of staff Yair Golan in Washington Post. US media need to highlight this news.
Cornel West says that donors and Jewish administrators dictate the rules on discussion of Palestine at Harvard and that’s why he’s not getting tenure. “That doesn’t mean that somehow– Every Jew doesn’t agree with them! You got a whole wave of Jewish comrades and Jewish brothers and sisters who are very critical of Israeli occupation, but not in high places! Not in high places.”
The New York Times just ran an article in which an Israeli documentary filmmaker asserts that “Evangelicals are the only significant power outside Israel that is openly supporting the settlements. No one else does.” This is simply not true, and reporter David Halbfinger was a witness to it in the powers of Trump aides David Friedman and Jared Kushner.
Palestinians are wondering why, after seven weeks, the New York Times hasn’t published a single word on B’Tselem’s landmark “apartheid” report.
Liberal Zionists can relax. With the apartheid designation by a leading Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, still a secret to most Americans, groups like J Street don’t have to explain why they still oppose the nonviolent global campaign for Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS).
In an article characterizing pro-Palestinian campus activists as “strident” and given to hatred and orthodoxy, the New York Times leaves out any substantive, visceral description of the crimes that motivate these activists: recent apartheid declarations by a leading Israeli human rights group and the Columbia College student body.
New York Times obit for an Israeli spy, Isaac Shoshan, is a list of grievous acts of violence for Israel, mythologized, typically, by Israeli reporter Ronen Bergman. There is absolutely no discussion of Why Shoshan’s targets would be upset with Israel. And Bergman insists that Shoshan was not an Arab but pretended to be one, when he was from Syria and spoke Arabic, which means he was Arab.