Joel Brinkley eulogizes Shamir: buckets of tears

Notice first how many times the holocaust was invoked in the obituary in an obvious attempt to gloss over his terrorism and to give them justifications.  2) Notice that his terrorism is mentioned in passing but not by calling them terrorism: notice how the word "militant" or "stubborn" is used in the case of Israeli terrorists to give an ideological cast to what otherwise would be described by the times as "ugly terrorism" if perpetrated by Arabs.  3) Look how the 1987 Palestinian uprising is described in the obituary:  "the years of violence and death on both sides brought criticism and condemnation from around the world."  Wait.  If this was violence on both sides, why would it bring criticism and condemnation from around the world?  Do you see how this attempt at obscuring Israeli crimes contradict the last sentence?   And Brinkley does not even make an attempt to reconcile his story about the Intifada as he goes on to say:  "the death toll climbed from dozens to hundreds. Israel’s isolation increased".  Wait. If this was violence by both sides as you have indicated above, why would Israel's isolation increase?  Why would it not be isolation of both sides?  And notice that he talks about "the death toll" climbing without bothering to tell us which death toll it was.  4) Notice here how the rise of Zionist terrorism in pre-1948 Palestine is also blamed on the Palestinians themselves:  "But after Arabs attacked Jewish settlers and the British in 1936, he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi".  So the poor fellow, was a peaceful immigrant minding his own business, and was turned into terrorism in 1936?  Can you imagine ever that the Times would say that a certain Palestinian was turned into "terrorism" by certain Israeli actions and murders and massacres?  But the Irgin was there so what does 1936 have to do with it? But more than that: the Irgn was present as early as 1931 while the Haganah (another mother terrorist organization for Zionists on our lands) was founded in the early 1920s.   And one of the triggers of the 1936 Palestinian revolts was the discovery in 1935 of a large arms shipment to Zionist terrorist groups.  But the Times always screws up cause-and-effect when it comes to Palestine. It has to to absolve Israeli war crimes and massacres.