Friday, April 10, 2009

Not in the print edition

"You can’t accuse the Israelis of not crying wolf. Ehud Barak, now defense minister, said in 1996 that Iran would be producing nuclear weapons by 2004. Now here comes Netanyahu, in an interview with his faithful stenographer Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, spinning the latest iteration of Israel’s attempt to frame Iran as some Nazi-like incarnation of evil..." By the way, many of you were impressed to read this piece in the New York Times. Let me explain: it never appeared in the print edition of the Times: only in the on-line edition. (thanks Marcy)