THE NEW YORK TIMES LIES ABOUT ISRAEL AND THE ARABS - NOT TO BE TRUSTED Bernard says: Please cancel subscriptions. The New York Times prides itself on presenting "All the News that's Fit to Print," but their pages routinely omit coverage of statements and actions by the Palestinian Authority and its officials which clearly communicate refusal to coexist in peace with Israel. Failure to tell the full facts about the Palestinian position misleads readers and policymakers alike. CAMERA (a Jewish media analyst organization) placed an ad in the November issue of Commentary magazine which you can see on their our Web site and their our Facebook page. (While you're there, "like" us!) The ad enumerates recent examples of extreme, anti-Israel activity by the Palestinian Authority -- which is regularly cast as a moderate and forthcoming partner for peace by The Times. The ad is the first in a series aimed at calling public attention to the harm done by America's leading newspaper when it omits crucial information and distorts Middle East realities. A further example of the New York Times' non-coverage of a PA statement antithetical to peace is posted as a Snapshots blog item about how Mahmoud Abbas told an interviewer, "I will never recognize the Jewishness of the state, or a 'Jewish state.'" He also said that the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit was "a good thing." Did the New York Times cover this? What do you think? -----------------
Friday, 4 November 2011
Ask the New York Times to cover the full facts about the Palestinians. You can use any of these examples from the ad:
The PLO chose Latifa Abu Hmeid as the face of their U.N. statehood campaign even while she is celebrated as the mother of sons involved in terrorist murders of Israelis.
Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah said the creation of a Palestinian state will not mean an "end of the conflict."
PLO diplomat Maen Rashid Areikat stated that "absolutely" no Jews could remain in a future Palestinian state.
A poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion, sponsored by The Israel Project, showed that 61% of Palestinians reject a two-state solution, 72% support denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem and 53% support teaching Palestinian schoolchildren to hate Jews.
Fatah Central Committee Member Abbas Zaki asserted, "If we say that we want to wipe Israel out...C'mon it's too difficult. It's not [acceptable] policy to say so. Don't say these things to the world. Keep it to yourself."
And Mahmoud Abbas told an interviewer, "I will never recognize the Jewishness of the state, or a 'Jewish state.'" He also said that the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit was "a good thing."
Executive Editor Jill Abramson at executive-editor@nytimes.com
Managing Editor Dean Baquet at managing-editor@nytimes.com
Foreign Editor Joseph Kahn at joekahn@nytimes.com
Chairman & Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at publisher@nytimes.com
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