New York Times: It Started When Israel Fired Back

August 21, 2011 15:50 by Simon Plosker

Why is it that the New York Times still cannot distinguish the moral differences between Palestinian terror and Israeli measures to defend its citizens?

Take a look at this headline and accompanying photo from the NY Times’ August 20 story:

Why did the NY Times purposely choose an emotive image of a Palestinian child’s funeral? Particularly as Israel was also burying its dead as a result of a terror attack.

This sort of misplaced moral equivalence is typical of the NY Times which also states (emphasis added):

Israel blamed The Popular Resistance Committees for Thursday’s attack and killed its top commanders in an airstrike later that day, igniting cross-border exchanges after months of relative quiet under an informal cease-fire with Hamas.

So who exactly “ignited” the violence? According to the NY Times it wasn’t those who carried out Thursday’s terror attack but Israel for responding. In addition, the term “cross-border exchanges” implies, once again, some sort of moral equivalence between Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets and Israeli responses.

Send your considered comments to the New York Times – letters@nytimes.com – remembering to include your address and phone number if you want it to be published.

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Tejano

6:29 pm

Sep 02, 2011

You’re damn right it won’t be around here, unless you’d like to dance at the end of a rope

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Henry Federman

6:41 pm

Sep 02, 2011

Don’t worry,you’ll never make it to my age.I am already 85 and intend to live another 15 more,towelhead!Your smell alone drive people away!

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Hillel Levin

10:22 am

Sep 04, 2011

Henry,

I don’t think you have seen a lot of the Arab housing in the Shomron.

A tremendous amount of construction of Arab housing is financed by the Oil rich Arab states. The Arabs in the Shomorn and Yehudah build on the ‘pay as you go method’. They get some funds for each level of construction and then take a picture and send for the next payment.

They have some very large villas. The village next to Shiloh has a population of Arabs with about 90% holding passports from the USA. They have riding clubs and verandas. Of course they do not pay any taxes and they do benefit from the infrastructure of road, electricity, fresh water systems, telephone network etc. built by the Israeli Government and Israeli Taxpayers.

Frankly, I look forward to the Jews of Monsey or Lakewood to take part in a population transfer project. They move to Turmos Ayah (Check out Daf Ayan Daled of messecet Shabbos, the inyan of Borere) and the Arabs move to either Monsey or Lakewood. They the Jews would be a 10 mionute car ride from the site where the Mishkan was for 369 Years.

If all the Jews come home, there won’t be much place for the Arabs in our home and they can go back to theirs in Saudi, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon. Remember Jordan occupies the East Bank of Eretz Yisroel. More land for the Children of Israel to Populate.

Come home brothers and vote with your feet. Talk is cheap.

hillel.leib@gmail.com Shiloh

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- Tejano
  
  4:11 pm
  
  Sep 04, 2011
  
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  I wouldn’t worry about it if I was you. Your state is stealing as fast as it can
  
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  - Asher Garber
    
    5:30 pm
    
    Sep 05, 2011
    
    Interesting that Israel is stealing land when she gave back the Sinai in 1979 for peace. The exact same Sinai that this attack was carried out in. Which, if up is down and black is white, makes you the frigging genius.
    
    Tejano, your are merely a minor zit on the butt that is pro-Palestinian obnoxiousness.
    
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    - Tejano
      
      6:30 pm
      
      Sep 05, 2011
      
      So there’s someting you didn’t steal, duly noted.
      
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JoAnna S. Cate

10:30 pm

Sep 09, 2011

Oh! Stealing land are they now, Wrong This is the land That the Lord ADONAI Gave Them. The Lord ADONAI Says He Will give them the Land From the River Euphrates to the land of Egypt!!! It Says so in HIS WORD!!!!! So Pray For ISRAEL.

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- Tejano
  
  10:49 pm
  
  Sep 09, 2011
  
  I think it’s stealing. You reckon they’re buying it from the people they evict?
  
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Dec 31, 2011

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Zionists are the real Anti-semites, and they are terrorists who are totally against peace! WAKE UP Israel!!! LEARN at the FACTS:

In a tape-recording made by an orthodox moderate named Yitzhak Frankental and later published in the Israeli press, Rabbi Rabinovitch says that if soldiers come to uproot settlers he intends “to scatter the area with roadside bombs like the Arabs do” (quote is his words).

Zionist Rabbi Schachter says: “It is forbidden to pray for peace in Eretz Yisroel, because the Israeli-Arab wars are the ‘beginning of the redemption’ and if there is peace, it will delay the redemption.”

Founder of zionism, Theodor Herzl, promoted anti-semitism to further the zionist cause. He states very clearly in his own diary: “It is essential that the sufferings of Jews…become worse…this will assist in realization of our plans…I have an excellent idea…I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth…The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews.” (from Herzl’s own Diary, Part I, p. 16)

At the Zionist Congress in London in 1937, Dr. Chaim Weizmann established policy with his words: ” The hopes of Europe’s six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No’….From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people…The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world…Only the branch of the young shall survive…They have to accept it.” (from the book: Holocaust Victims Accuse, p. 25)

One of the founders of the Haganah (the Zionists’ paramilitary militia-army before the 1948 war), Ze’ev Jabotinsky, declared that settlement of the “land” is the only “law”. He declared: “There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supercedes all–Jewish settlement of the land.” (from the book: Righteous Victims, p. 108)

FACT: real Jews are AGAINST zionism:

The Rebbe of Satmar, Hungary, Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, a high-ranking rabbinical scholar of uncontested holiness, is one of the greatest giants in all of Jewish history. He called zionism “the work of Satan”, “a sacrilege” and “a blasphemy”. He forbade Jews to have any participation with anything even remotely associated with zionism and said that zionism was bound to call the wrath of God upon His people. He maintained this stance with unwavering bravery from the very onset of zionism. He wept that the Holocaust was a direct result of zionism as a punishment from God. In his book Vayoel Moshe (middle of Section 110) he states: “It is because of the Zi0nists that six million Jews were killed. The fact is that this is the bitter punishment stipulated in the Talmud (Tractate Ketuboth, p. 111)

The great Rabbi from Shinova, who was the son of the Holy Sanzer Rabbi of Poland said this 100 years ago, at the dawn of Zionism: “You should know, that when a Jew recites ‘Hear O Israel, G-d is our Lord, G-d is One’ he should have in mind to reject all idolatry in the world, and Zionism is also idolatry, and he must reject it as well.”

In a letter written by the famous Rabbi Tzadok Hakohen of Lublin, Poland, before World War II: “THE CONCLUSION IS TO BE DRAWN THAT IF THE ZIONISTS GAIN DOMINION THEY WILL SEEK TO REMOVE FROM THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL BELIEF IN G-D AND IN THE TRUTH OF THE TORAH. ALL THE INTENT OF THESE INCITERS AND SEDUCERS IS TO CAST ISRAEL INTO INFIDELITY, WHICH IS DESTRUCTION. Tzadok Hakohen”

In a letter from Rabbi Aryeh Leib Alter, known as the Sfas Emes, which he wrote early in the Zionist period, the Rabbi says: “Now behold Satan has come and confused the world….A thick cloak rest over the eyes of the leaders of the Zionists. ONLY OWING TO THEIR LACK OF FAITH AND ABSENCE OF BELIEF IN G-D DO THEY FAIL TO REALIZE THE EXTENT OF THE DANGER INVOLVED IN THEIR PROMISES TO THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLES AMONG WHOM WE LIVE, OF ALL THE WORLDLY DELIGHTS PROVIDED THEY GIVE AID TO THE ZIONISTS. THEY EVEN URGE THEM TO EXPEL JEWS FROM THEIR MIDST. Every sensible person will realize the help they are providing the enemies of the Jewish People…. Aryeh Leib Alter”

In this book, in chapter 26, Rabbi Yitchak Aramah states that the Decree of Exile for the Jewish People is so serious that even if the Jewish People were to terminate the Exile from the Holy land ONE DAY before the willing of G-d, the entire People would be in great danger by virtue of having violated the prohibition of ending the Exile as discussed in the Talmudic Tractate Kesuboth 111.

Plus…there are so MANY MANY more proven historical documents, records, books, statements, and events, all of which show a multiplicity of CLEAR evidences proving beyond doubt that Zionism is terrorism, against Jews, against peace, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with true Judaism. Read all about it yourself, and you will if you have ANY genuine interest in the real, unadulterated TRUTH!

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- steven L
  
  11:01 pm
  
  Mar 21, 2012
  
  U need to get an education.
  
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Tejano

11:58 pm

Mar 21, 2012

How many dunims did y’all pick up today?

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