So the New York Times has a typical fluff farewell piece in praise of the outgoing US ambassador in Israel. It concludes: "By most accounts Mr. Kurtzer...did his job well." How does the New York Times reach that conclusion? Well, you have to interview somebody who represents the superior people, and not the subject natives who suffer under them. Notice how there is no voice for the Palestinians in this article, which is not surprising on the pages of NYT. And this is the New York Times' evidence that Kurzer did his job well: ""It took him awhile to realize that Oslo was over," said Yossi Klein Halevi, a writer for The New Republic and a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a conservative research organization in Jerusalem. "But he proved to be a fast learner. I think he began to see the Oslo process the way most of us here had come to see it, as a disaster for Israel.""