Any article any reference to Israel is fit to print in the New York Times. Look at this boring and lame article. This is a guy wrote an article about a visit he had taken back in 1990 to Israel. It has nothing to offer except to tell readers that Saddam lobbed missiles at Israel. Since 1990, Israel has sent rockets and bombs over Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, not to mention assassination and bombing campaigns in places from Lebanon to Iran to Dubai to Iraq. You my try this experiment: send an article to the New York Times in which you say that you once at a potato in Israel and that the experience made you sympathize with Israeli terrorism. I bet you that it will be published.