Is the NY Times Softening on Settlements?

A NY Times staff-ed's nuance on Migron suggests -- dare I say -- that the paper is not automatically ruling out…

By March 28, 2012

A NY Times staff-ed’s nuance on Migron suggests — dare I say — that the paper is not automatically ruling out settlements as unacceptable or illegal:

The settlers should be relocated to existing settlements or as close to the Green Line as possible — all areas that are assumed to become part of Israel if there is ever a peace agreement.

Beitar Illit

Hmmmmmm.

(Image of Beitar Illit via Wikimedia Commons)

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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