The even-handed New York Times

http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=18268

Many of the right of centre blogs from the US have brought to their readers attention the highly pro-Palestinian anti-Israel bias of the New York Times. In this article, on a website called Occupation a man called Chris Hedges, who was the bureau chief of the NY Times in Jerusalem, runs down through all the alleged atrocities perpetrated against the Palis.

Two things caught my eye:

'Palestinians in Gaza live encased in a squalid, overcrowded ghetto, surrounded by the Israeli military and a massive electric fence, unable to leave or enter the strip and under daily assault.'

'Faced with a demographic timebomb, knowing that by 2020 Jews will make up only 40 to 46 percent of the overall population of Israel, the architects of transfer, who once held the equivalent status in Israeli society of the Ku Klux Klan, have wormed their way into positions of power in the Israeli government.'

Why are the Palestinians having so many children? Oh right, I remember; islame is the fastest growing religion on the planet, and we have to keep it that way. And the smartest response to living all bunched up in little squatter camps is to keep those babies coming.

I'm not sure what makes me angriest about this whole setup- that a week after the partition of Israel was declared the Palestinians tried to annihilate the Jewish population of Palestine, but having failed to do so then spent the next 58 years presenting themselves as widdly weakly victims of the great oppressor Zionists; or that idiots like Chris Hedges can't identify cause and effect. Over and over and over again the Palestinians have shown their intense collective desire to murder all the Jews and throw their bodies into the Med, and over and over and over again their stooges such as Hedges insist that its the Jews who are intent on ethnic cleansing, murder and societal dismemberment. I often wonder what Hedges views would be if the Palestinians had won the war of 1948, and dispatched the Jews with vigor and stolen all their legal property? '...Its ok because they were NATIVE peoples, and NATIVE peoples can murder and steal and ethnically cleanse to their hearts content, because they are not, nor ever will be, imperialist intruders.'

Anyway, I think at least one issue is cleared up- and thats why the New York Times could never quite see things through Israeli eyes.