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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Ethan Bronner: delivering the messages of Israeli propaganda
Really. I see no article by Ethan Bronner that does not deliver messages of Israeli propaganda to the readers of the New York Times. I mean, any Israeli military or intelligence propagandist can call the New York Times bureau in occupied Jerusalem or whatever it is in occupied Palestine and deliver propaganda messages and themes, and the messages would be printed verbatim. Lebanon (at the state level and not Hizbullah level) regularly if not weekly complains about Israeli violations of the UNSC 1701 with the semi-daily Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace and the spy network and the occupation of lands and the incursions into Lebanon and the kidnappings of Lebanese civilians and the lands mines scattered in South Lebanon, and those complains don't get it into the New York Times. So this explosion in one building becomes a story worthy of a whole article in the New York Times from its office in Israel (although the bureau in Beirut contributed coverage based on a report from Hariri TV: and Hariri TV is reliable on Hizbullah as is Al-Manar TV reliable on communist affairs). And notice that this entire article is based on the account AND speculation of an Israeli military propagandist and the New York Times and its office in Beirut did not even bother to get the token response from Hizbullah. I mean, even Fox News claims to be "fair and balanced" while the New York Times does not even try anymore. And the concluding paragraph of his propaganda piece adds this: "During that war, Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets into Israel." Is that not something? I mean, you read this sentence and the New York Times wants you to say: poor Israel. Yes, Hizbullah fired thousands of rockets into Israel, while Israel was sending messages of peace in bottles to Lebanon. The New York Times on the Middle East is less reliable than the North Korean daily on North Korean affairs. Kid you not.