Wrong Time for Bashing Israel
July 11, 2012 12:53 by Alex Margolin
Maybe the people who write editorials at the New York Times don’t follow the news.
That’s the only way to explain how, just one day after Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israel’s offer to release 125 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for nothing more than a new round of peace talks, the Times is back to blaming Israel for the current impasse.
In an editorial about the Levy Report, no mention is made about Abbas refusing offers for talks. What we get instead is a litany of accusations against Israel:
Palestinian hopes for an independent state are growing dimmer all the time. Israel is pushing ahead with new settlements in the West Bank and asserting control over new sections of East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as their capital. Meanwhile, peace talks — the best guarantee of a durable solution — are going nowhere.
It’s not just the Palestinians who are losing hope. Israelis seeking for a peaceful solution to the conflict have little to celebrate as well. And why is that? Why are peace talks – the great “guarantee of a durable solution” – going nowhere? It is because the Palestinians simply refuse to hold talks.
And it gets worse. Later in the same editorial, the Times notes:
Now that Mr. Netanyahu has expanded his ruling coalition, his excuse is gone for not ending his counterproductive settlement policy and using his new political clout to advance a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
When will the New York Times hold Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to the same standards to which it holds Netanyahu? When will we see New York Times editorials telling the Palestinians that their excuse for rejecting offer after offer to negotiate will no longer be accepted?
Well, that’s not happening today and it’s hard to see it happening tomorrow. Right now, for the New York Times editorial team, Israel can do no right and the Palestinians can do no wrong.
Ed Frias
2:54 pm
Jul 11, 2012
Thank you Alex Margolin for destroying all the lies of the Times in this article.
Arab Rejectionism and hatred are things the Times likes to avoid.
All the Times has to do is go on Palmediawatch to see the Islamo Nazis Israel is dealing with.
Well-loved. Agree or Disagree:
12 
0
Ed Frias
2:59 pm
Jul 11, 2012
Their was never in history a state called Palestine governed by Palestinians.
Even though we know the Palestinians are really other Arabs from the Arab countries who came to the land late in the Ottoman Empire and during the British Mandate.
The Jews offered Arabs a two-state solution in 1919; accepted the two-state solution of the Peel Commission in 1937; accepted the UN two-state solution in 47-48. Israel offered the Palestinians a state in 2000; accepted the Clinton Parameters in 2000-01; and offered a state again at the end of 2008. The Palestinians rejected every offer, becoming the first people in history to reject a state 6 times and then set conditions for discussing another one.
Well-loved. Agree or Disagree:
14 
0
Ed Frias
2:59 pm
Jul 11, 2012
The Palestinians dont want 2 states for 2 people.
They want 2 Palestinian states.
They want a state that is Jew free and to flood Israel with millions of Arabs for the 2nd Pal state.
The NY Times doesn’t want to talk about Palestinian terrorism, not generation after generation of officially sanctioned Palestinian incitement, not the inability of Palestinian society to conduct democratic elections and come up with one truly representative leader with whom Israel can negotiate and not even the basic refusal to accept a Jewish state in the Middle East.
Well-loved. Agree or Disagree:
13 
0
Ed Frias
3:04 pm
Jul 11, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHpMhAzj-Tk
Israeli Professor Mordechai Kedar on Al Jazeera TV tells how Jerusalem belongs to Israel.
A must see for the NY Times
Well-loved. Agree or Disagree:
6 
0
Ed Frias
5:08 pm
Jul 11, 2012
The Jerusalem Post has an article about this Times editorial.
Let me just put a response to the Times Editorial.
This guy hit it right on the head.
mhloutsidebeltway
At least the NYT is consistent. In the 1930s they buried stories about Kristallnacht and the coming Shoah. They opposed Israel’s independence and supported the British policy of preventing survivors reaching Palestinian shores. They called for retreat from Sinai in 1956, restraint on June 4th, 1967, and a cease-fire when Israel was routing Egypt’s army in the Yom Kippur War. Let the NYT be dam*ed and let us hope that no Israeli “leader” ever listens to them.
Well-loved. Agree or Disagree:
9 
0
Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
7:59 am
Jul 12, 2012
I sent a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times about this article :
Israel’s foundational documents are the 1920 San Remo Resolution, the 1922 Mandate for Palestine (a “sacred trust” never amended or abrogated), the 1924 Anglo-American Convention, and Article 80 of the U.N. Charter. The Mandate for Palestine called for the Jews to settle closely on all the land in Palestine. In a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt following Israel’s 1967 defensive war, Israel gave back the huge Sinai, comprising 90% of captured territory, thus fulfilling the requirements of U.N. Resolution 242 calling for Israel’s withdrawal from “territories” (but not “the” territories or “all” territories). Palestinians aren’t signatories to the 4th Geneva Convention, as there’s no legitimate state called Palestine. Besides, this Convention was intended to prevent crimes like those of aggressor Germany in (1) forcibly transferring populations to concentration or extermination camps and/or (2) transferring their own population to unlawfully occupied Poland to colonize it.
Well-loved. Agree or Disagree:
5 
1
Falsche Zeit für Israel-Bashing « Medien BackSpin
12:28 pm
Jul 12, 2012
[...] HonestReporting Media BackSpin, 11. Juli 2012 [...]
Agree or Disagree:
0 
0
The Middle East Media Sampler 7/12/2012: What Israeli “Occupation” Really Means | Blogs about Israel aggregation
5:14 pm
Jul 12, 2012
[...] other day the New York Times condemned the ruling made by Judge Levy and his committee. Alex Margolin observed: Maybe the people who write editorials at the New York Times don’t follow the news. [...]
Agree or Disagree:
2 
0
Middle East Media Sampler for July 12, 2012
7:00 pm
Jul 12, 2012
[...] The other day the New York Times condemned the ruling made by Judge Levy and his committee. Alex Margolin observed: [...]
Agree or Disagree:
1 
0
Andrew
4:29 am
Nov 12, 2012
Just wait til God reclaims His land of Canaan, ha ha to all the ‘journo’s’ who write against that day, ashes and dust will be their reward. It amazes me how and why people cling to lies and deception when the truth is clear. If they are going to believe and uphold the koran, they should take a history lesson and see which God actually LIVES, the retelling of Elijah would be a good place to begin with learning what God does to insolent and arrogant men and women who defy Him. Long live the King of Kings who is worthy of all praise and glory.
Agree or Disagree:
0 
0