Wednesday, March 1, 2006

WHY I HATE THE NEW YORK TIMES

TODAY'S NEW YORK TIMES HAS ANOTHER SYMPATHETIC PORTRAIT OF A MURDEROUS HAMAS TERRORIST.

Anti-Israeli Terrorist and Family Man (TimesWatch)
Steven Erlanger’s report from the West Bank on a Hamas member’s release from Israeli custody is titled “Head High, Hamas Member Returns From Israeli Jail.”

Here’s part of the photo caption, at the bottom of a heartwarming column of photos running through the middle of the article: “The first to get a hug from Mr. Barghouti was his son Basel. Then he stopped at the grave of a neighbor’s son who died in a clash with Israelis, before a festive meal, with his son Bilal on his lap.”

Each of those loving scenes featuring the family hero are documented in pictures.“On Sunday, Mahmoud Youssef Barghouti came home to a different kind of reception. His family and friends traveled to a rainy checkpoint to greet him, pale and bearded in new black jeans and silvery running shoes, which he tried to protect from the mud. His daughter, Hanin, 12, was in tears, burying her face in his waist; he lifted his son Basel, 5, a serious boy in a crew cut who stared around him. He hugged his wife, Fadia, brushing his lips along the embroidered brown scarf that covered her hair. Mr. Barghouti, 39, an active member of Hamas, was released at 5:30 a.m. from Ketziot prison, a collection of tents in the Negev, after 14 months of administrative detention by Israel, held without charges.”

Erlanger finally notes that “membership in Hamas, considered a terrorist organization, is a crime.”

Actually, Hamas is not merely “considered a terrorist organization,” but it demonstrably is one. How much proof does Erlanger need?And this detail could have been lifted straight off a left-wing banner: “In the Ketziot desert jail, Mr. Barghouti said, prisoners live 20 to a tent, 6 tents to a section, each section surrounded by the same nine-yard-high sections of concrete wall used in the separation barrier [between Israel and the West Bank].”

HE'S ALMOST LIKE A REAL HUMAN BEING.

ON THE PLUS SIDE, THE NEW YORK TIMES NOW ADMITS THAT "ZIONISTS" DON'T STEAL THE INTERNAL ORGANS OF MUSLIMS.

The Times Finally Knocks Down an Anti-Jewish Libel (TimesWatch)
As Times Watch noted at the time, the New York Times passed on without comment an anti-Semitic libel from the screenwriter of, “Valley of the Wolves -- Iraq,” an anti-American film made in Turkey. The paper corrects the record Wednesday.

“The Istanbul Journal article on Feb. 14 about ‘Valley of the Wolves -- Iraq,’ a popular Turkish-made film that depicts American soldiers in Iraq as tyrannical occupiers, referred imprecisely to scenes cited by the screenwriter as ‘inspired by real events.’ While two such scenes -- the killing of Iraqis by American soldiers and the mistreatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison -- have been documented, the scene depicting an American Jewish surgeon at Abu Ghraib removing organs from Iraqi prisoners for shipment to recipients in New York, London and Israel is fictional.”

As Times Watch wrote at the time, “It’s too much to expect the Times to be critical of anti-American sentiment, but it could have at least flagged the old anti-Semitic myth of the Jewish doctor stealing organs. Instead the Times lets the libel pass without comment.”

As Slate’s “Today’s Papers” columnist Eric Umansky writes sarcastically, “Also, please note, Jews

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