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FREEMAN CENTER BROADCAST- November 15, 2009

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace

and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. - Plato

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." -- Ayn Rand

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From Naomi Ragen:

 

Dear Friends, Those of you who have been members of my mailing list know
how many times I have written about the half-truths, untruths, and outright
lies printed by the New York Times, once the respected newspaper of record.
When it comes to Israel and terrorism and leftist agendas, the New York
Times suddenly can't report the truth, reverting to the worst excesses of
think-control organs - no different than Pravda under the Soviet communists-
in which articles are slanted to convince, not to inform.

Israel has finally decided to declare war on the NYT.  With its biased coverage
of the despicable and unfactual Goldstone report (stating that this report
"contains evidence of Israeli war crimes"  when no such evidence exists
as the Times well knows, the whole report based on Hamas propagandists
with no input AT ALL from Israel) , the Times has finally shown its hand.
Even Reuters was more objective.  Reuters!!  Please join in the battle for
truth and objectivity.  Below, the letter of protest to Hoyt written by
spokesperson for Israel's U.N. Delegation.

Cancel your subscription, and if you've wisely already done that or never
had one, contact Mr. Clark Hoyt, Public Editor yourself to tell him how
ashamed he and his paper should be:
E-mail: public@nytimes.com
Phone: (212) 556-7652
Address: Public Editor
The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

Naomi Ragen

P.S. My thanks to David Bedein, Editor of Israel News Resource for the alert.
<http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=3785&q=1>

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Letter sent on Nov. 5, 2009

Dear Mr. Clark Hoyt, Public Editor of The New York Times,

I write in connection to a series of articles published in The New York Times
in recent weeks regarding the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding
Mission on the Gaza Conflict, colloquially referred to as the Goldstone
Report. I am deeply concerned by the subjective and often damning language
that The New York Times uses towards Israel as it fails to accurately reflect
the nature and scope of the report.

Over and over, The New York Times’ articles on this matter employ language
that easily leads the reader to believe that the Goldstone Report found
conclusive evidence that Israel committed war crimes. In Neil MacFarquhar’s
“U.N. Council Endorses Gaza Report” (Oct. 16), the article states
that the Goldstone Report “details evidence of war crimes committed by
the Israeli Army...” In Sharon Otterman’s “Gaza Report Author Asks
U.S. to Clarify Concerns” (Oct. 22), the Goldstone Report is described
as having “found evidence of war crimes committed by Israel...” In yet
another example --MacFarquhar and Otterman’s “Palestinians, in Reversal,
Press U.N. Gaza Report” (Oct. 14) -- the Goldstone Report is once again
described as having “found evidence of Israeli war crimes...” These
articles reflect only a sample of the many that discuss Israel vis-à-vis
the Goldstone Report in conclusive and condemnatory terms.

In stark contrast, a Reuters article carried by The New York Times on Oct. 14,
“Israel Urged to Investigate Gaza War Crimes Charges,” describes the
Goldstone Report as reflecting “U.N. allegations of possible war crimes.”
The description offered by the Reuters piece is a critical component of any
factually accurate discussion of the Goldstone Report. In sharp contrast,
the aforementioned Times articles fail to reflect this vital distinction
as readers will falsely assume that the Goldstone Report found conclusive
evidence of Israeli war crimes.

I wish to reiterate Israel’s position that the Goldstone Report is deeply
flawed and one-sided as it offers legitimacy to Hamas terrorism and its
deliberate strategy to launch attacks, store weapons and use as shields
the civilian population and infrastructure of Gaza. At the same time,
the report’s mandate predetermined its findings that wrongly condemned
Israel’s legitimate exercise of its right to self-defense. The tendency
of The New York Times to gloss over such realities must be rectified and
I sincerely hope that paper will use accurate and appropriate language to
ensure that its coverage of the Goldstone Report and the wide Middle East
is fair and honest. I remain at your disposal if you would like to further
discuss this matter.

Yours truly,

Mirit Cohen, Spokesperson, Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN