Not All Op-Eds Are Equal in the New York Times
May 24, 2012 13:57 by Simon Plosker- The Palestinian refugee problem was a result of a war that was started by the Palestinian and Arab side in an attempt to wipe out the newborn State of Israel – a situation that prompted subsequent Israeli security measures.
- Similarly, Munayyer never mentions security or terrorism as possible reasons for the status of his wife and other Palestinians.
- Irrespective of the above, every country, including Israel, has the sovereign right to determine its own citizenship rules. After all, marriage does not automatically confer citizenship or residency rights to a non-citizen, which is also the case in the US and many other countries.
Munayyer doesn’t miss the opportunity to bring in the apartheid charge:
Tragically for Palestinians, Zionism requires the state to empower and maintain a Jewish majority even at the expense of its non-Jewish citizens, and the occupation of the West Bank is only one part of it. What exists today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is therefore essentially one state, under Israeli control, where Palestinians have varying degrees of limited rights: 1.5 million are second-class citizens, and four million more are not citizens at all. If this is not apartheid, then whatever it is, it’s certainly not democracy.
It’s certainly not apartheid and the area that exists today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is not one state. Munayyer may, instead, be alluding to his vision for the disappearance of Israel as a Jewish state in favor of a Palestinian one by virtue of simple demographics.
Further resources: The Apartheid State Libel
That this particular focus on the rights or otherwise of Israeli Arabs marrying residents of the Palestinian territories has appeared both in The Australian and New York Times in quick succession would indicate a concerted and organized effort by Palestinian activists to use this issue as a stick with which to beat Israel. That the New York Times has consented to be part of this campaign is not a surprise and is yet another indicator of the Gray Lady’s bias towards Israel.
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Frank Adam
11:25 pm
May 31, 2012
Join the club of those disappointed by the changes of the times we live through.
Chew the carpet on this one: Joe Stalin – admittedly to do down the Brtish in the Middle East – supported partition and allowed the Czechs to send Spits and infantry weapons to the nascent Israel fighting for its life in 1948.
We have reached a situation where most modern Conservatives would be classed as raving revolutionaries by pre-1914 standards and a lot of the Left have abandoned the proletariat as soft to support the Third World led by medieval Moslem clericalists willing to smash the industrialised World – as if that would improve it or still be able to feed 4X the population of 1950 !!!.
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StorminNorm
12:06 am
Jun 01, 2012
LISTEN….back in those days I would have accepted the support of the fuhrer if it would have helped………AND good old Joey….he loved the Jews soooo much that a few years later he was plotting to send them all to the gulag….we were actually saved by the interference of the Angel of Death….HIS!!!!
The only thing the arabs have contributed to modern civilization that I can see is death and destruction….eventually it will probably lead to theirs!!!
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m
12:27 am
Jun 01, 2012
Stormin:
“The only thing the arabs have contributed to modern civilization that I can see is death and destruction”
Yes, well, if there was a Nobel categories for expertise in suicide bombs, misogyny, revisionist history or terrorism techniques; I’m sure the arab world would have plenty of prize winners.
See, again proof we discriminate against the arab world.
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PAthena
4:27 am
Jun 01, 2012
The Arabs who call themselves “Palestinian” have stolen Jewish identity. On the origin of the names “Palestine” and “Palestinian:” In 135 A.D. the Roman Emperor Hadrian, after defeating the last Jewish rebellion under Bar Kochba, changed the name of Judea to “Palestina” in order to eradicate all memory of Judea and the Jews-he also outlawed Judaism and changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, Aelius being his gens name. From that time on, “Palestine” was synonymous with “land of the Jews” and “Palestinian” with “Jew.” That is why Great Britain was awarded the “Palestine Mandate” after World War I, to be the “homeland of the Jews.”Calling Arabs (non-Jews) “Palestinian” with phony h
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PAthena
4:31 am
Jun 01, 2012
(continued) ”Calling Arabs (non-Jews) “Palestinian” with phony history and propaganda are effects of the founding of the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (P.L.O.) by Gamel Nasser, ruler of Egypt, and the Soviet Union in Cairo in 1964.
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jacko
7:38 am
Jun 01, 2012
It is regretable that Arabs are unable to distinguish the truth from untruth. they even believe their own lies. I did not say that but the following by Prof
Philip Khuri Hitti Professor Semitics Columbia University did
“The admitted capacity of the Arabs to manufacture facts, to deceive themselves into accepting them and to work themselves up to a public passion over what is in fact a non existent emotion. ‘What the Arabs believe even if untrue has the same influence over them as if it were true” “
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StorminNorm
9:03 am
Jun 01, 2012
Or JACKO ….as a famous Israeli once said….”they never missed a opportunity to miss an opportunity!!!!”
….and thereby hangs the tale!!!!
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m
5:47 pm
Jun 01, 2012
“they never missed a opportunity to miss an opportunity!!!!””
And that holds true to this day.
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New York Times Op-Ed Index
9:05 am
Jun 02, 2012
[...] such as the Arab refusal to accept Israel and terrorism that led to the situation he described. Honest Reporting noted that another recent article in the Australian had made similar charges and suggests that this might [...]
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montlasky
5:02 pm
Jun 03, 2012
Why should the NY times be any different from any other city rag trying to peddle it’s wares?
If the oped is anti Israel, for whatever reason and by whom ever the author, then that’s news, indesputible truth by all accounts. Why? Because the abysmal ignorance of the authors and their audiences creates this ignorant demand to sell their papers and the more distorted the reporting the more acceptable the distorted news bias is received by the reading public. Why? It’s all a matter of demographics! Who is reading and enjoying this garbage and even worse, who is writing it? Take note of the particular author of this op-ed and his background and origins. Pathetic but real!
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