Ethan Bronner: what have you done for Israeli propaganda today?

It is fair to say that Ethan Bronner would like to have one article of his published daily in the New York Times. It is fair to say that Ethan Bronner would like to offer free propaganda services to the Israeli occupation of Palestine daily. It is fair to say that Bronner's propaganda services are rather crude, vulgar, and direct. Bronner's services to Israeli propaganda are never characterized with subtlety: he belongs to the Alan Dershowitz's school of Israeli propaganda. Today, he has an article on the West Bank on the front page. The closure of the AlJazeera office in Ramallah warranted a small little item in the New York Times yesterday. Yet, today, there is a front page article on the West Bank. What was his point? Well, there is always an Israeli propaganda point or points in the articles by Ethan Bronner (a former deputy foreign editor of the New York Times). Here, his point is that there are fruits for collaboration with Israel and he all but called on all Palestinians to collaborate with Israel. There is a lot of deception and outright falsification in the article by Bronner. Where do I begin (there is a song with that name), or let me count the ways (to quote Shakespeare). First, look how this volunteer propagandist for Israel summarizes the second Palestinian Intifada: "leading to terrorist bombings and fierce Israeli countermeasures." What is counter and what is not counter? If you trace it back to its origins (in terms of the beginning of the Zionist project in Palestine), all Palestinian acts of violence can be characterized as "countermeasures," unless you--like all Zionist hoodlums in the US--treat the usurping creation of the Zionist entity in 1948 as the beginning of the conflict, with nothing to comment on prior to that. Bronner then offers his call for Palestinian collaboration with Israel: "In Jenin, a seven-story store called Herbawi Home Furnishings has opened, containing the latest espresso machines." When I read that I thought that Bronner should produce t-shirts with this slogan printed on them: I collaborated with Israel and all that I got are two lousy espresso machines." Does Bronner think that by reference to the latest espresso machines he is tempting the Palestinians to collaborate with Israel? He then dishonestly refers to this poll: "But a recent opinion poll in the West Bank and Gaza by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, a Palestinian news agency, found that Fatah was seen as far more trustworthy than Hamas — 35 percent versus 19 percent — a significant shift from the organization’s poll in January, when Hamas appeared to be at least as trustworthy." But Bronner leaves out another element of the poll by the same Jerusalem Media and Communications Center: "On the performance of President Abbas, a ratio of 48.2% of the respondents said they are satisfied or very satisfied with his performance compared with a ratio of 49.4% who said they are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the performance of President Abbas." Was that too inconvenient to report, o Mr. Bronner? What do you call a reporter who reports one segment of the poll but leaves out another segment? What do they call that in basic journalism classes, when the person hides part of the truth to advance a certain political interest? Then Bronner tells you this: "Two weeks ago, the Israeli military shut its obtrusive nine-year-old checkpoint at the entrance to this city, part of a series of reductions in security measures." So Bronner is telling you basically this: wake up the children and release the pigs from barn because the Israeli military occupiers have shut ONE CHECKPOINT OUT OF 600 CHECKPOINTS in the West Bank. For Bronner, to close one check point out of 600 is a cause of international celebration and for awarding Israeli occupation a blender for its act. And then Bronner does what he always does: to consult with an Israeli military propagandist to explain matters Palestinian. "Asked to explain why the West Bank’s fortunes were shifting, a top Israeli general..." Imagine if Bronner were to interview a Hamas official to explain Israeli developments. But no: what Bronner does is typical of those who still suffer from colonialist thinking. The native are not qualified to comment on their lives: only the colonizers are qualified to comment on the lives of the natives. The terrorist military occupier then offers his praise for the Abu Mazen-Dahlan collaborationist regime: "The first time was during Israel’s military invasion of Gaza when Palestinian police officers kept the West Bank calm during protests." Notice that the efforts of the regime to repress the Palestinian people and to ban expressions of solidarity with the people of Gaza, and the muzzling of the press and the violent crushing of demonstrations is referred to as "keeping the West Bank calm." Again, colonial rules rule.