Filed under: Israel, Palestine, Palestinians — Marc Schulman on September 27, 2007 @ 12:39 am CEST
I’ve sent the following letter to the authors of The Israel Lobby:
On pages 171 and 172 of The Israel Lobby, you state that
To its credit, the New York Times’s editorials sometimes criticize Israel policies, and in recent years, the criticism has occasionally been strongly worded. The Times recognizes that the Palestinians have legitimate grievances and a right to their own state. Still, its treatment of the two sides over the years has not been evenhanded.
After reading this, I decided to investigate your assertion by consulting the Times’s online archive, starting in 1987. Enclosed are extensive excerpts from its editorials. My conclusion, unlike yours, is that the Times has been consistently evenhanded over the past twenty years.
I would obviously appreciate a reply to this letter.
I’m not holding my breath.
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1 Michael van der Galiën
September 27, 2007 @ 10:19 am CESTIf you get a reponse, I hope you’re allowed to publish it here.
2 John Hynde
October 4, 2007 @ 3:40 am CESTThe NYT has always been very one-sided. It has deliberately employed for many years more than 1 pro-Israel columnist to ensure its own editorials would always be compensated in favor of Israel. NYT columnists which are part of the Israel Lobby include William Saffire (now retired) and David Brooks. The actual NYT editorials are never heavily criticizing Israel but at best its worst excesses. In that sense, it is closer to the Labour way of thinking than the Likud way of thinking which is useless (after all, most Israeli settlements got approved under consecutive Labour governments).
So I think you should do your homework again and look at the whole picture. You may also want to compare with European newspapers (does not yet owned by Zionist Rupert Murdoch of course).