When the NYTimes Forgets To Quote the...New York Times

I missed this.

Way back on May 31, Seth Lipsky tore apart the New York Times' comparison of the Marama with the Exodus.

Although basing himself on post-Zionist radical Israelis, Mackay did write:

Another parallel between the events of 1947 and those on Monday is a dispute over what might have justified the use of deadly force against civilians.

Lipsky writes:

What the Times blog failed to quote was the attitude of the Times itself, which back in 1947 issued an editorial sharply critical of the decision of the Zionists to bring the Jews on the Exodus to Israel in the first place. The Times wanted the Jews to suffer...the General Assembly had called on “all governments and all peoples” to observe a truce and, as the Times put it...“Despite this proper and reasonable request, there arrived on the coast of Palestine, two months later, a company of 4,500 unauthorized Jewish immigrants, aboard the ill-fated Exodus.”

“Reckless” is the word the Times used to describe the how the truce request was ignored by “those who arrange and finance unauthorized immigration into Palestine.” It called such ignoring the “first act in a tragic story.”...

So, why not berate the IHHers and other humaniterrorists?

Why not condemn their recklesness?


And see this blog post, too.


(Kippah tip: DaledAmos)
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