New York Times: It Started When Israel Fired Back
August 21, 2011 15:50 by Simon PloskerWhy 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.
Henry Federman
5:02 pm
Aug 21, 2011
According to the NYT article Israel responded to an attack,if Israel responded there must have been a question in order to answer.Who did the questioning?
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mendel levertov
5:03 pm
Aug 21, 2011
Are you guys serious?! Israel ignited cross border tensions by retaliating? What about all the rockets that gave been fired into Israel from the Gaza strip for the past 2 months? Do they not count as attacks? I think that the in should declare palastine a separate state just so that the next time when they fire one rocket or even one bullet into Israel it can be considered an act of war, and Israel can invade them and take over.
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Marc R
5:27 pm
Aug 21, 2011
We must boycott the NYTimes until they lose their anti-Israel bias and report the news as it happens without their spin. The only way the Times will learn is when their pocketbook is hurt.
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anonymous
5:30 pm
Aug 21, 2011
@mendel: I have thought that for years! Not even take over, but just occupy them, and systematically search them for weapons and anything that can be used as weapons, house by house, business by business, and AMBULANCE BY AMBULANCE! Then deport the leftovers to the Arab countries!
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walter margulis
5:34 pm
Aug 21, 2011
It seems as if the anti jewish press like THE NYT would like the jews to behave as we did in the middle ages. Times change.
WM
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shinie rajan
5:41 pm
Aug 21, 2011
I just don’t understand these breeds who the b…….y hell is at the top? just dont read it and spread the word to all
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Sergio Valdes-Flores
5:51 pm
Aug 21, 2011
anonymous: I don’t agree with the deportation. That IS playing into their hands. They have warped the story of 1948 to the point that the countries of the world and their governments believe their warped story much better than our real story. Their “story” is Israel deported all arabs under threat of extermination and holocaust in 1948. We have not done such a thing then and in the 60 years following the re-establishment, to do that now is to throw wood into their fire. This is the end times, Mr. and the only player HaSHEM. Believe !!! All WE humans can do is what Marc R and this honest reporting site and emails is doing.
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A Jewish mom
6:01 pm
Aug 21, 2011
That is just a sickening image paraded out for sympathy. How could they make this father tote his dead child through the streets in his arms for a photo opt. This has gone too far when you abuse people in this manner. Why is no one crying out over the human right violations by the palestinians?
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Sergio Valdes-Flores
6:14 pm
Aug 21, 2011
Jewish mom: THANK YOU. your comment is very very deep. The only comment about the infant. It made me look again at the picture of the little 2 yo (says the “press”) dead and AGREE with you completely. As far I was raised and brought up in Cuba, tragedies are PERSONAL and although unfortunately part of this life, should not be made public for sympathy. To your question, why no one is crying… the answer is simple, we don’t PARADE our tragedies, that’s what I think and was brought up like that.
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nik
6:27 pm
Aug 21, 2011
We don’t even have to bother to respond unless one sentence. Shall we stay put receiving on the head poundings poundings from the (arabs)?. Did any country in the world stay put when receiving poundings killers killing its people? Who ever stay put? Should we stay put? Come on bbc and NY times, u have arabs working there for you and inside your work, and you are afraid of their attacks in your country so u please them by letting directing you what to write and what to tell so, u are attacking us! I don’t care about u all, we don’t care, all Israel doesn’t care about your filthy lying reports. F-u all!!! we do what we have to do!!!! Otherwise, we got enough with the experience of your europe with your Hitler the hell with him,we shall never leave a situation like this to come! Our wonderful Sharon g-d bless him in his sickness, is one of our best David against Goliath we should follow his thoughts. Eyes against eyes! This is the law!!!!!
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Ros
6:40 pm
Aug 21, 2011
A Jewish Mom: Who actually knows whether this child who was unintentially killed last week? Who knows whether this is yet another ‘Pallywood’ production? These photographers just ‘happen’ to be covering these funerals? Sorry to be such a cynic but I don’t believe any photos that I see coming from the Palestinian territories and especially when they are used in this manner.
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Robin
10:25 pm
Aug 21, 2011
How do we know there is a real dead child wrapped up in that blanket? It could be another fake like the shrouded “corpse” that fell off the stretcher at his funeral and then jumped back on!
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Dan
7:10 pm
Aug 21, 2011
I wonder if the NY Times can name a relatively recent terror attack on ITS country, for which ITS country retaliated over the period of YEARS! Hypocrites.
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7:18 pm
Aug 21, 2011
[...] NY Times covers things pretty much as you would expect. [...]
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Robin
10:27 pm
Aug 21, 2011
Yes, I will give the NYT credit for being extremely predictable.
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Israel ‘Ignites’ Violence By Defending Itself «ScrollPost.com
7:21 pm
Aug 21, 2011
[...] York Times via HonestReporting (emphasis mine): Israel blamed The Popular Resistance Committees for Thursday?s attack and killed [...]
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W.L. "Zev" Wexler, Esq.
7:37 pm
Aug 21, 2011
The NYT has, for as long s I can remember sought to hide its Jewish roots. They think they can do this by anti-Jewish and anti-ISRAEL BIAS IN THEIR REPORTING. Fair minded intelligent readers and advertisers should let the paper know that they can’t get away with these lies. This article reminds one of an old Bazzooka Joe comic strip where one boy states “HE HIT ME BACK FIRST.
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dr.steve pastner
7:46 pm
Aug 21, 2011
It’s also well worth noting that Israel’s public expression of regret for the “fog of war’ deaths of several Egyptian officers was spurned by Egypt, despite the fact that they must bear responsibility for the deteriorating security in the Sinai which facilitated the initial attack on Israel.
The only time i can recall any arab apology for an Israeli casualty was in the days of the late King Hussein of Jordan.
The TIMES and BBC might well have noted that! ( but of course didn’t).
“Arab Spring” my tuchas! (The beginning of a possible very cold ” winter’ though ,as Iran is increasingly emboldened , by post-Mubarak Egypt’s chaos, in its provocations and support of Hizbollah and Hamas.
Should such escalate , an extremely strong military response from Israel and even the U.s. is ultimately not an impossibility.
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Henry Rubin
8:13 pm
Aug 21, 2011
We know what the world thinks the only defense we have is the state of Israel .BBC NY. Times all supported by Arab money
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8:15 pm
Aug 21, 2011
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Bernhardt
8:47 pm
Aug 21, 2011
To zev wexler : just the idea of “wanting ti hide their Jewish origins is highly offensive . At this point all those anti -Semites ; some Jewish in name alone , certainly not in moral character, are running this rag . I wouldn’t use it even to wrap fish in fear of the certainty how much worse the fish would smell
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Mladen Andrijasevic
8:56 pm
Aug 21, 2011
This morning there were three Grad attacks on Beer Sheva . The real question is why does Israel have to be the only exception in history when we who are an overwhelming military power are not using it to stop rocket attacks on our own civilian population. We invent Iron Domes, build shelters and safe rooms and at the same time provide electricity and send supplies to the Gaza Strip from where the Grad rockets originate. It is quite bizarre to say the least. This of course does not mean that Israel has to react the way Britain did during the Blitz and the V1 and V2 attacks and create another Dresden, but surely the number of targeted Hamas terror infrastructure targets could be increased by an order of magnitude.
So the question still remains WHY does Israel constantly behave like no other country would? This has really become ridiculous and lethal. This is probably the last time the safe rooms will be of use. When it comes to Iran the threat is existential and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction is dead since the mullahs cannot be deterred and are actually looking forward to a nuclear confrontation , but no one bothers to discuss that. Mad is Dead http://madisdead.blogspot.com/
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