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Today's Times

Today's New York Times hit the trifecta.

Least offensive, but still idiotic and somewhat offensive, was the front page story in the Metro section about "party motivators" who encourage kids at bar and bat mitzvahs to dance. The article claims that "whether you can have a successful bar mitzvah without at least a handful of motivators is debatable."

Second were two long front page profiles about suicide bombers. Nothing was stated about those who were murdered, except a matter-of-fact statement toward the end of the article that "he detonated his bomb, killing a Jewish settler and his pregnant wife." The "settler" was Gadi Levy; his pregnant wife was Dina Levy, a mother of two. The Times mentioned nothing about them, not even their names. The headline was "A Young Man Radicalized by His Months in Jail," implying that Israel's prior arrest of the suicide bomber played a role in his madness. The Times apparently does not view murdering Jews (especially "settlers") as showing that Israel might have had legitimate reasons to imprison this terrorist.

Finally, an editiorial (not an opinion column) by Ethan Bronner, a Times editorial page editor, falsely stated that "In the final years of the British mandate in Palestine, there was not one Jewish militia but several, just as there are competing Palestinian groups today. The main one, the Haganah, was led by Mr. Ben-Gurion. A more violent and radical one, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, often called simply the Irgun, was led by Menachem Begin. The Irgun, along with an even more radical group, the Stern Gang, was responsible for a massacre of more than 200 Palestinians in the village of Deir Yassin in April 1948."

The notion that Deir Yassin was a "massacre" is a blood libel, similar to false claims of a "massacre" in Jenin last year. A detailed study shows the accusations regarding Deir Yassin to be absolutely false, yet this study would not support the Times' need to claim that the Haganah, Irgun and Lechi (the Times calls them "the Stern Gang") is no different from Fatah, Hamas and Hezballah.

Bronner's editorial also distorts the reality of the Altalena incident, fully ignoring the Irgun's position.
posted on 5/30/2003