The NYTimes: Is It That Hostile to Israel?

The claim that the New York Times.not only practices bias towards Israel in its news coverage and on its opinion pages has been documented, clearly, consistently and considerably.  Some think the paper hates Israel.  It is hostile towards the country of the Jews.


It's record during the Holocaust was evil, in a moral sense.

Is this just a 'Zionist screed'?

Consider this story:

World Briefing | Middle East
Israel: Palestinian Is Killed at Army Base
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: October 17, 2013

Israeli soldiers on Thursday fatally shot a Palestinian man who drove a construction vehicle into an army base near Ramallah in the West Bank, barging through a gate and repeatedly trying to run over a soldier, the Israeli military said in a statement. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the man as Yunis Radeideh, 30. In two attacks in July 2008, Palestinians driving construction vehicles in central Jerusalem were shot and killed after plowing into traffic and pedestrians, killing three Israelis. In March 2009, the Palestinian driver of an earthmover flipped over an Israeli police car, wounding two police officers before he was shot dead. According to initial reports, the driver in that episode, Marei al-Radeideh, was a brother of the driver killed at the army base on Thursday.

Here's how it could - and should - have been written, my editorial rewrite:-

World Briefing | Middle East
Arab Breaks Into Israel Army Base; Killed
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: October 17, 2013

An Arab man who burst into an army base near Ramallah in the West Bank, barging through a gate with a construction vehicle and who repeatedly trying to run over a soldier, was killed an IDF spokesman said. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa identified last night's driver as Yunis Radeideh, 30.  He was the bother of Marei al-Radeideh, the driver killed in a March 20090 incident when an Arab driver of an earthmover flipped over an Israeli police car, wounding two police officers before he was shot dead.

In two similar previous attacks in July 2008, Arabs driving construction vehicles in central Jerusalem who killed three Israelis after plowing into traffic and pedestrians, were also shot and killed.

And since that WAFA report is only on Arabic, the NYT could have added this (via Google Translate) from the report:

The Israeli press sources reported that Israeli forces transferred the body of the Palestinian citizen to the 1948 Lands.  The Wafa correspondent reports that clashes broke out between citizens and the occupation forces in the town of Al-Ram, after the martyrdom of Citizen Radaideh, and Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and gas towards the citizens during the confrontations, which is still continuing up to an hour to prepare this news .

and, at the least, pointed out that pre-1967 Israel is still considered "occupied Palestine" - anyone in the NYT's editorial executive board still believe in the two-state solution? -  and that the terrorist who attempted murder is declared a 'shahid', a martyr?

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