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		<title>New York Times Now Shilling for Paying Ransom to Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The official paper of treason never rests.]]></description>
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<p>The official paper of treason never rests.</p>
<p>Even by New York Times standards, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/middleeast/the-cost-of-the-us-ban-on-paying-for-hostages.html">Rukmini Callimachi&#8217;s article,</a> &#8220;The Cost of the U.S. Ban on Paying for Hostages&#8221; is a mess, stumbling as it tries to somehow sell its completely unacceptable agenda.</p>
<p>Instead of coming right out and saying, &#8220;The US should pay ransom money to terrorists&#8221;, Rukmini dances around by claiming that the FBI and State Department didn&#8217;t pay much attention to information about hostage locations. This may or may not be true, but it&#8217;s irrelevant to his thesis.</p>
<p>It takes pages until the rotten thesis at the heart of the piece is reached.</p>
<blockquote><p>Relatives of the victims, as well as retired law enforcement officials who oversaw hostage negotiations under previous administrations, say the post-9/11 policy has meant not just that the government will not pay cash to kidnappers, but that it will not participate in any negotiations. Critics argue that this runs counter to longstanding instructions in the F.B.I.&#8217;s operations manual, which provides guidance on how agents can help families pay private ransoms.</p>
<p>They say, moreover, that the way the policy is currently applied is at odds with a classified 2002 presidential directive that allows the government to pay ransoms in special cases, so long as the money is used as a lure to catch the perpetrators, according to two officials who were involved in drafting the order.</p></blockquote>
<p>1. Conventional kidnappers are not enemy forces at war with the United States. Paying the money will not finance the next 9/11</p>
<p>2. The ransoms are paid in cases where it can be used to catch the terrorists</p>
<blockquote><p>Retired officials with decades of experience in hostage negotiations said there were a number of tools short of paying ransoms that Washington could have tried. For example, officials could have asked a third country to intervene, a role that Qatar often plays, or used diplomatic channels to push for an exchange of prisoners held elsewhere. France successfully persuaded Mali this month to free four members of Al Qaeda’s North African branch in return for the French hostage Serge Lazarevic.</p></blockquote>
<p>Pressing another country to release Al Qaeda terrorists is the equivalent of us releasing Al Qaeda terrorists. The only difference is plausible deniability.</p>
<blockquote><p>Another possibility would have been to allow the hostages’ families to pay ransoms themselves, as was the norm through the early 2000s, according to two former F.B.I. officials. Instead, the family members of the four Americans say they were told they could be prosecuted if they paid.</p></blockquote>
<p>Paying ransoms to terrorists endangers Americans by making them an even  bigger kidnapping targets and finances terrorist operations.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re not allowed to send money to terrorists for really obvious reasons, no matter what the justification is.</p>
<p>The New York Times fails to acknowledge this obvious problem. Instead it continues acting as if the US is being irrationally stubborn by refusing to help fund terrorists.</p>
<blockquote><p>Soon after the failed American raid in July, one fighter said, the Islamic State sent an envoy named Sheikh Abdullah al-Jarrah al-Nasir to Gaziantep over the summer with a letter authorizing him to negotiate on behalf of the group. The rebel, who asked not to be named, brought the sheikh here to see an American intelligence official whom he knew only as Darren. He said he was not sure if this was the official’s real name.</p>
<p>“I met Darren, and he came out, but he refused to meet Sheikh Abdullah,” the fighter said. “I told him, ‘The sheikh is here to negotiate.’ Darren blamed me and said, ‘We don’t meet with terrorists.’ I told him, ‘If you don’t meet with ISIS and deal with them as a state, this will end very badly.’ ”</p></blockquote>
<p>The mistake here was letting the Sheikh leave.</p>
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		<title>David Carr, Charles C. Johnson and Moral Superiority</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>&#8220;The Internet has given us many glorious things: streaming movies, multiplayer games, real-time information and videos of cats playing the piano. It has also offered up some less edifying creations: web-borne viruses, cybercrime and Charles C. Johnson.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how David Carr begins his piece on Charles C. Johnson.</p>
<p>The theme of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/business/media/sowing-mayhem-one-click-at-a-time.html?ref=media">the New York Times editor </a>is that Johnson is a bad person and a bad journalist. Here&#8217;s a typical paragraph from top notch journalist Carr writing about Johnson.</p>
<p>“I’m basically one of those kids who was bullied all his life,” he said. He’s now extracting payback, one post at a time.</p>
<p>Taking a line out of context and appending a snide remark to it in a way that makes it seem as if it&#8217;s a quote, but not a direct one, is dubious journalism.</p>
<p>The entire Carr piece is a collection of similar snide remarks and condescending put downs with a real &#8220;Get off my lawn&#8221; quality. And yet all this comes from a<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all"> guy who has a lot more claim </a>on being up there with viruses and cybercrime.</p>
<p>In his memoir, Carr described being a working reporter who smoked crack, beat women and sold drugs. That naturally led to a job at the New York Times.</p>
<p>Where then does the condescension come from? Carr is a terrible person who sits near the top of a paper that is often wrong, rarely apologizes for it, serves as the mouthpiece for the White House and targets political enemies with smear campaign.</p>
<p>The New York Times does all the things that Carr accuses Johnson of doing.</p>
<blockquote><p>He can now push the button on almost anything that has heat, a scent of scandal or the ability to activate his base of angry, conspiratorial readers, who believe the republic is being overwhelmed by criminals, feminists and the politicians who enable them.</p></blockquote>
<p>Substitute the Koch Brothers, Evangelical Christians, Orthodox Jews, men, the Redskins and assorted other liberal foes and that&#8217;s an apt description of the New York Times.</p>
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		<title>The New York Times Hits Rock Bottom with Max Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247115" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg" alt="max-blumenthal" width="255" height="255" /></a>The New York Times, the paper that earned the dubious distinction of being the recipient of the “<a href="http://honestreporting.com/a-year-of-biased-reporting-why-the-new-york-times-won/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Most Dishonest Reporting</span></a>” award for 2013 is at it again. This time, The Gray Lady <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/07/if-israel-turns-right-where-will-it-end-up-12/a-rightward-shift-in-israel-would-reflect-whats-always-been-true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> an op-ed piece by the notorious anti-Semite Max Blumenthal, providing this provocateur with a mainstream platform to express his odious views.</p>
<p>True to form, Blumenthal, the darling of radical extremists, conflates, distorts and simply makes things up. But I’m not here to analyze Blumenthal’s arrant nonsense. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/187518/rolling-stone-apologized-will-the-times"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Others</span></a> have already done a <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/08/new-york-times-attempts-to-resuscitate-reputation-of-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">good job</span></a> of that. What I wish to highlight is the depths to which the New York Times has sunk.</p>
<p>To be sure, the New York Times has in the past given a broad range of anti-Israel types a platform to express their opinions in the op-ed section, far more than those expressing positive views of Israel. But Blumenthal’s pernicious views veer uncomfortably close to old fashion anti-Semitism and this time, the New York Times exceeded the bounds of decency and fair play and has partnered with those who openly express Jew-hatred.</p>
<p>An analysis of Blumenthal’s history reveals the following disturbing facts;</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/06/german-opposition-party-cancels-event-featuring-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disinvited</span></a> from a scheduled speaking engagement by the German “Die Linke” (The Left) party due to his <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/max-blumenthal-rejected-by-german-radicals/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Semitic</span></a> (not to mention anti-Israel) views.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s antics earned him a <a href="http://www.dw.de/israel-critics-visit-to-parliament-turns-ugly-for-gysi/a-18059221"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German parliament.</p>
<p>•The Simon Wiesenthal Center has labeled Blumenthal an anti-Semite and his comments earned him a spot in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “<a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN-2013.PDF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Top 10</span></a>” list of anti-Semitic slurs.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s “works” have been cited and praised by radical extremists and <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazis</span></a>  and have been <a href="http://www.brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/marquardt-Bigman_research_paper.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> on the anti-Semitic blog, <i>Electronic Intifada</i> as well as the neo-Nazi Internet forum, <i>Stormfront</i>.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s comments have been cited with approval by <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Frazier Glenn Miller</span></a>, the KKK murderer who massacred three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.</p>
<p>•The Left-leaning <i>Forward</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as so anti-Israel it, “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">makes even anti-Zionists blush</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Prominent liberal Eric Alterman of <i>The Nation</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as a screed that belongs in the “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal compared Israel with ISIS (the group that lops people’s heads off for eating dinner with the wrong fork) calling the Jewish state “JSIL” or the “Jewish State of Israel and the Levant.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal called Israelis “Judeo-Nazis.” (I wonder if he could say that to a Holocaust survivor and walk away with his head intact.)</p>
<p>•Writing for the Hezbollah paper <i>Al-Akhbar</i>, Blumenthal stated that American law enforcement is “<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security"><span style="color: #0433ff;">schooled in Israeli killing methods</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was caught red-handed <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/did-israel-train-american-interrogators-in-torture-updated/249630/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conjuring up fictitious quotes</span></a> maligning Israel.</p>
<p>And that’s Max Blumenthal in a nutshell. One wonders whether Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Max’s father and <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/clinton-adviser-sid-blumenthals-new-cause-his-sons-anti-isra"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passionate defender</span></a> had anything to with the Times’ decision to host the notorious anti-Semite. Either way, the Times’ demonstrates that it has tossed journalistic standards and any semblance of decency out the window.</p>
<p>So what’s next for the New York Times? I hear former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke is in town. Perhaps the Times can enlighten its readership and provide the former Klan leader a forum on its op-ed pages to explain how the diabolical Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust or alternatively, how the Zionists propagated the Holocaust hoax to inflict suffering on the poor Palestinians. That should make for interesting reading.</p>
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		<title>Netanyahu Proven Right by Muslim Brotherhood’s PR Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest media enemies of Israel exposed. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/netanyahu2-628x356.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247035" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/netanyahu2-628x356.jpg" alt="netanyahu2-628x356" width="316" height="279" /></a>Burson-Marsteller – one of the world’s largest <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">PR firms</span></a> – who <a href="http://observer.com/2014/09/the-muslim-brotherhoods-new-pr-agency-rejects-israel/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">refused to represent Israel, yet accepted Muslim Brotherhood as a client</span></a> recently issued its annual Twiplomacy study.  As they explain the study, “World leaders vie for attention, connections and followers on Twitter.”  Social media of course continues to grow worldwide.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">To no surprise, their study basically reveals that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a world leader with a very keen understanding of how media and influence works. Some years ago, Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly said in an interview that the two main enemies facing Israel are The New York Times and Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “They set the agenda for an anti-Israel campaign all over the world. Journalists read these publications every morning and base their news stories … on what they read in the New York Times and Haaretz.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Indeed, the “Twiplomacy study” revealed that for world leaders, <a href="http://twiplomacy.com/blog/world-leaders-get-their-news-from-the-new-york-times-reuters-cnn-and-the-economist/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">The New York Times is the single most popular news source on Twitter</span></a> – and Haaretz is the most-followed Israeli news source on Twitter amongst world leaders.  Both of these media outlets are virulently opposed to Israel’s policies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The journalists most followed by world-leaders should also be concerning to Israel supporters.  The most-followed journalist by world leaders is CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, whom many consider virulenty anti-Israel. Glenn Beck<b> </b>has called Amanpour “anti-Western,” “anti-Jew” and media watchdog organization CAMERA has called her a “frequent Israel basher.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The 2<sup>nd</sup> most-followed journalist by world leaders on Twitter goes to another CNN anchor, Fareed Zakaria<b>,</b> <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/shame-on-fareed-zakaria-cnn/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">who last year asked the Israeli Ambassador to the United States why Israel needs to be a Jewish state</span></a>. Rounding out the top 5 comes NYT Columnists #3<b> </b>Nicholas Kristof, #4 Paul Krugman (who has written that<b> </b>the policies of the current “narrow minded” Israeli government “are basically a gradual long-run form of national suicide”), and perpetual <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12433#.VITE0Jt0yUk"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Anti-Israel critic Uncle Tom Friedman</span></a>. (In 2011, Friedman described the Israeli government as &#8220;drunk,&#8221; &#8220;out of touch&#8221; and &#8220;in-bred,&#8221; and wrote that congressional ovations for Prime Minister Netanyahu were &#8220;bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.&#8221;)</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The media is unabashedly Anti-Israel – and undoubtedly affects world policies.</p>
<p style="color: #252324;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816#.VITHAZt0yUk">Ze’ev Jabotinsky,</a></span> the Zionist prophet some years ago noted,</p>
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<p style="color: #252324;">Who were the first to teach us to always interfere in matters that are not ours, to judge people and nations, even though we were never chosen for the position of judge? The work of the publicist is a legacy from the Prophets of Israel…Our passion is to speak, to proclaim—‘Shouting” is what the same audience calls it, ‘we have no need for words, give us actions.’ One thing that audience forgets is that speech is also an action – Perhaps the most authentic of all actions. Cities have been destroyed, and more will fall, but what was shouted in the wilderness thousands of years ago is alive and still relevant. The world was created by the Word. The world will be mended by the Article.</p>
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<p style="color: #252324;">Media bias hurts Israel – and anyone with the ability to influence media to tell the truth should do all they can to help improve Israel’s image.</p>
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		<title>Max Blumenthal: Too Extreme for German Commies, Just Right for the New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>How bad is the New York Times?</p>
<p>A party of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/max-blumenthal-too-anti-semitic-even-for-german-commies/">East German Commies gave Max Blumenthal the boot for</a> being a bigot. The left-wing Forward called his book <a href="http://www.cameraoncampus.org/campus-figures/max-blumenthal/#.VIUa2zGooeU">the &#8220;I Hate Israel&#8221; handbook</a>. His colleague at The Nation <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ron-radosh/the-liberal-supporters-of-max-blumenthal-and-the-campaign-to-delegitimize-israel/">said it could have been put out by</a> “The Friends of Hamas Book Club.”</p>
<p>One of Blumenthal&#8217;s smears about Israel <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/anti-semitic-violence-neo-nazis-and-the-anti-israel-left/">was picked up by the Neo-Nazi gunman </a>responsible for the Kansas City Jewish community center shootings.</p>
<p>But the influence of Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal is still strong enough to get his racist son in at the New York Times. (<a href="https://twitter.com/jkirchick/status/541791316003549186">hat tip to Jamie Kirchik for the link and headline</a>)</p>
<p>Blumenthal rants about how far &#8220;rightward&#8221; Israel has gone. That&#8217;s an ironic accusation coming from a man so far to the left that even German Communists find him extreme and even critics of Israel consider him anti-Semitic.</p>
<p>Max Blumenthal has called for the destruction of Israel. So maybe the New York Times should have looked a little closely at his claims about Israel.</p>
<p>But of course they didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Instead Blumenthal gets a free hand to make the case for Israel&#8217;s destruction via &#8220;Zionism is Racism&#8221;. Because creepy bigotry that even German Communists will draw the line at is still good enough for the old gray lady.</p>
<p>The New York Times really has no standards.</p>
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		<title>NY Times: We&#8217;re Losing So Let&#8217;s Cancel the Midterm Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can't we just appoint politicians for life? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_244382" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/vladimir_putin_01-1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-244382" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/vladimir_putin_01-1-450x297.jpg" alt="Comrades, your proposal intrigues me" width="450" height="297" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Comrades, your proposal intrigues me</p></div>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/204326-with-media-facing-probable-gop-win-tuesday-ny-times-says-cancel-the-midterms/">if this idea picks up steam</a>. Minority turnout is much lower in midterm elections. The more reliable Dem bases often stay home.</p>
<p>The Dems just try to do away with whatever obstacles get in their way. If they can&#8217;t turn out voters for the midterms, just cancel them.</p>
<blockquote><p>By Tuesday night about 90 million Americans will have cast ballots in an election that’s almost certain to create greater partisan divisions, increase gridlock and render governance of our complex nation even more difficult.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s translate that from liberal to English. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to lose&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ninety million sounds like a lot, but that means that less than 40 percent of the electorate will bother to vote, even though candidates, advocacy groups and shadowy “super PACs” will have spent more than $1 billion to air more than two million ads to influence the election.</p></blockquote>
<p>We spent a ton of money&#8230; but Republican turnout will still beat ours.</p>
<blockquote><p>There was a time when midterm elections made sense — at our nation’s founding, the Constitution represented a new form of republican government</p></blockquote>
<p>Liberals preface every radical change with an absurd claim that it made sense once, but now modernity has overtaken it.</p>
<p>Sure a Supreme Court made sense at our nation&#8217;s founding, but now we have computers.</p>
<p>Maybe Trial by Jury made sense a few hundred years ago, but now we have Twitter.</p>
<p>Elections made sense long ago, but today we all watch the Daily Show.</p>
<blockquote><p>But especially at a time when Americans’ confidence in the ability of their government to address pressing concerns is at a record low, two-year House terms no longer make any sense. We should get rid of federal midterm elections entirely.</p></blockquote>
<p>Timmy, that&#8217;s what they call a non-sequitur.</p>
<p>Americans have no confidence in government. Let&#8217;s extend the terms of government officials so they can&#8217;t be removed.</p>
<blockquote><p>Moreover, Twitter, ubiquitous video cameras, 24-hour cable news and a host of other technologies provide a level of hyper-accountability the framers could not possibly have imagined.</p></blockquote>
<p>Twitter, video cameras, cable news! Who needs elections anyway?</p>
<blockquote><p>In the modern age, we do not need an election every two years to communicate voters’ desires to their elected officials.</p></blockquote>
<p>We don&#8217;t need an election to communicate voter desires. We need an election to throw the bums out. Surely you good liberal gentlemen understand that. Some things you just can&#8217;t do through Twitter, cable news and video cameras.</p>
<blockquote><p>The main impact of the midterm election in the modern era has been to weaken the president, the only government official (other than the powerless vice president) elected by the entire nation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which would be really awesome, like the filibuster, if he were a Republican. But since he&#8217;s a Democrat, he now embodies the national will&#8230; even though everyone hates him.</p>
<blockquote><p>The realities of the modern election cycle are that we spend almost two years selecting a president with a well-developed agenda, but then, less than two years after the inauguration, the midterm election cripples that same president’s ability to advance that agenda.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s almost like the system was designed to prevent an imperial presidency. What do we call that again? Checks and balances?</p>
<blockquote><p>Another quirk is that, during midterm elections, the electorate has been whiter, wealthier, older and more educated than during presidential elections.</p></blockquote>
<p>Finally we come to the real issue. Those midterm voters are just too damn white.</p>
<blockquote><p>There’s an obvious, simple fix, though.</p></blockquote>
<p>I love simple obvious fixes. Especially when they are illegal, unnecessary and nakedly partisan attempts to rewrite the system.</p>
<blockquote><p>The government should, through a constitutional amendment, extend the term of House members to four years and adjust the term of senators to either four or eight years, so that all elected federal officials would be chosen during presidential election years.</p></blockquote>
<p>This simple obvious fix doesn&#8217;t go far enough for me. Can&#8217;t we just appoint them for life? Maybe by a diverse committee of community groups, newspaper editors and unions? Surely this would be a much fairer system?</p>
<p>And then we can abolish the Bill of Rights in another simple, obvious fix.</p>
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		<title>NY Times Triples-Down as Communist Mouthpiece</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new-york-times.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new-york-times-450x320.jpg" alt="new-york-times" width="380" height="270" /></a>The past 10 days have seen <i>three</i> hysterical editorials from the New York Times <i>pleading</i> for a U.S. economic lifeline to the Castro brothers’ terror-sponsoring regime (i.e. to end the so-called embargo).</p>
<p>It’s the economy, stupid—Venezuela’s that is. Those plummeting oil prices (20% in the past few months) are playing havoc with the Cuban colony’s already-rotten economy.  Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba last year, mostly in the form of essentially free oil, were estimated to total $10 billion. That’s more than double what the Soviets used to send.</p>
<p>But Castro’s Venezuelan puppet Maduro is now on very shaky ground. The only thing keeping this pathetic satrap in power—besides the 30,000 or so Cuban military and security “advisors” essentially running Venezuela—are the bread and circuses that sitting on top of the world’s largest oil reserves allows the Venezuelan regime to put on for Venezuelans.</p>
<p>Now this oil-fueled largesse looks imperiled—and with it the subsidies to Venezuela’s colonial overlords in Havana. Hence the Castro brothers’ desperation for a rescue from U.S. tourists and taxpayers—and the SOS to their regime’s traditional agents-of-influence worldwide, among whom the New York Times features very prominently.</p>
<p>“Fidel Castro…has largely vanished from public view in Cuba,” reads the second NY Times editorial on Oct. 14. “But the 88-year-old former <i>president </i>[italics mine] has not altogether abandoned the business of telling Cubans what to think.”</p>
<p>Is the Times &#8212; at long last! &#8212; acknowledging a totalitarian streak in the longest-reigning Stalinist dictator of modern history? Sure sounds like it. Now please pay close attention as the editorial continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>On Tuesday [Oct. 14<sup>th</sup>], Mr. Castro dedicated a column to an editorial published in The [New York] Times on Sunday [Oct. 11] that called on the Obama administration to restore diplomatic ties with the Cuban government and end the <i>counterproductive </i>[italics mine]<i> </i>embargo the United States has imposed on the island for decades. His take was remarkable for one main reason…quoting nearly every paragraph in the [our] editorial…Hosts of Cuban state-run radio stations [also] read Mr. Castro’s column and discussed its content…</p></blockquote>
<p>In brief: so closely did the New York Times echo the sentiments of a Stalinist dictator that he gleefully ordered their article disseminated—almost word for word &#8211; throughout his regime’s KGB-founded and mentored media. It gets better:</p>
<blockquote><p>He [Fidel Castro] appeared to endorse the thrust of the editorial,” The second NY Times editorial boasts, “comparing it to an interview he gave in 1957 as a young rebel leader to a [New York] Times foreign correspondent at the time, Herbert Matthews…</p></blockquote>
<p>In April of 1959 &#8212; amidst an appalling bloodbath of Cubans by firing squad ordered by Fidel Castro but mostly administered by his ever-faithful Igor, <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">Che Guevara</a> </span>&#8211; Castro made a special visit to the New York Times offices in New York. After a warm greeting from Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, a beaming Fidel Castro personally decorated a beaming Herbert Matthews with a specially-minted medal expressing his bloody regime’s highest honor.</p>
<p>“To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude,” beamed Castro as the flashbulbs popped. “Without your help, and without the help of the New York Times, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Revolution in Cuba would never have been.”</span></a></p>
<p>“Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy and social justice,” Matthews had written on the front pages of (at the time) the world’s most prestigious newspaper in February 1957. “But it amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic, and therefore <i>anti</i>-communist.”</p>
<p>Herbert Matthews doubled-down a few months later: “This is <i>not</i> a Communist revolution in any sense of the term. Fidel Castro is not only <i>not</i> a Communist, he is decidedly <i>anti-</i>Communist” (Herbert Matthews, the <i>New York Times</i>, July 1959).</p>
<p>Reasonable people might ask: has any <i>tiny</i> little thing transpired in the intervening half-century that might cause the New York Times to regret their enabling of Fidel Castro?</p>
<p>But reasonable people will search in utter vain for any hint of such regret, especially in light of this week’s editorials, which – if anything &#8212; double-down on the New York Times&#8217; historical fondness for the Castro regime.</p>
<p>Through their unrivaled (at the time) public relations cachet and their heavy influence with their ideological cohorts and cronies in the CIA and U.S. State Department, the New York Times enabled into power a regime that:</p>
<p>*Jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror.</p>
<p>*Murdered more Cubans than Hitler murdered Germans during the Night of Long Knives.</p>
<p>* converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe into one that repulses Haitians.</p>
<p>* Wantonly brought the world within a whisker of nuclear war.</p>
<p>Over <i>fifty times</i> as many Cubans have died (and horribly) while attempting to flee Castro’s Cuba as Germans died trying to flee East Germany. And prior to Castroism Cuba welcomed more immigrants per-capita (primarily from Europe) than did the U.S.</p>
<p>And remember, the New York Times, like all anti-embargo propagandists (Chamber of Commerce, Hillary Clinton, Brookings Institute, Cato Institute, etc.), advocates against the so-called embargo by claiming Castro secretly favors it. The embargo &#8212; the intellectual eggheads wink and snicker at us knuckle-draggers &#8211; gives Castro a foil for his economic failures and an excuse to keep the clamps on. “Don’t you blockheads understand?”</p>
<p>We’re greatly impressed with your erudition and powers of ratiocination, think-tank eggheads. But first off, if Castro “<i>secretly</i> favors the embargo,” then why did every one of his <i>secret</i> agents campaign secretly and obsessively <i>against</i> the embargo while working as <i>secret</i> agents? Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as &#8220;Castro’s Queen Jewel&#8221; in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.</p>
<p>Prior to her visit from the FBI and handcuffing, Ana Belen Montes worked tirelessly to influence U.S. foreign policy <i>against</i> the embargo. The same holds for more recently arrested, convicted and incarcerated Cuban spies Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers. All of these worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy <i>against</i> the &#8220;embargo&#8221;&#8211; while working as <i>secret</i> agents.</p>
<p>In brief, the “reasoning” against the so-called embargo by people who fancy themselves intellectuals calls for Rod Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode:</p>
<blockquote><p>Imagine if you will &#8230; a place where every &#8220;prestigious&#8221; think-tank (from Brookings to CATO) and every &#8220;prestigious&#8221; publication (from the New York Times to The Atlantic) denounces the Cuba &#8220;embargo&#8221; as &#8220;Castro&#8217;s best-friend, a policy he secretly favors&#8221;&#8211; even when every one of Castro’s convicted secret agents campaigned secretly and obsessively <i>against </i>the embargo while working as secret agents. On top of that, the KGB-mentored media of Castro&#8217;s totalitarian regime makes it a point to reprint every &#8220;end-the-embargo&#8221; article ever printed in the world, especially those by the New York Times&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Imagine if you will&#8230;a place where the institutions that call the embargo &#8220;Castro&#8217;s best-friend&#8221; still manage to be known as <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=otj666e8e533cb3154646a6601ccfd09ef95c#bookmark=http://babalublog.com/2014/10/16/beam-me-up-scotty-new-york-times-editorial-think-tanks-and-the-cuba-embargo/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“<i>think</i>-tanks.”</span></a></p>
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		<title>Want to Go to Iran w/the New York Times? Don&#8217;t Be Jewish or Gay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>For a mere $7,000 you too can visit Iran on a New York Times trip to imbibe Iranian propaganda. Just don&#8217;t be gay. Or Jewish. <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/13/israelis-barred-from-new-york-times-hosted-iran-tour-rep-says-advisable-to-hide-jewish-or-gay-identity/">Because they don&#8217;t like that</a> over there.</p>
<blockquote><p>The New York Times is offering a pricey, 13-day excursion to the “once-forbidden land of Iran,” one of a series of its Times Journeys tours. However, if you’re an Israeli, joining the “Tales of Persia,” trip, “once-forbidden,” is still forbidden, and letting anyone know you’re Jewish, or gay, isn’t particularly recommended, either, a representative told The Algemeiner on Monday.</p>
<p>According to the promotional material on the website, the tour, which starts in Tehran, journeys “across country through beautiful landscapes, arid mountains and rural villages to experience vibrant bazaars,” where the traveler can “get lost in ancient cities and learn about the traditions and cultures of Iran. Traveling in a small group and staying in luxurious hotels along the way, your journey through Iran will reveal the secrets from this once forbidden land.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But just keep your own secrets to yourself or you might end up hanging from a crane.</p>
<blockquote><p>Asked if he found the possibility of facilitating discrimination to be objectionable the NYT rep parried that, “Well, we would, of course, not want anyone to feel prejudiced on the trip; we’d do our best for that not to happen. But, of course, anywhere we travel we can’t guarantee every factor.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The New York Times could not lead a tour to a country where they kill gays. And even if you aren&#8217;t gay, Iran has a history of arresting Western travelers for serious crimes like being a woman watching a soccer match.</p>
<p>But that probably won&#8217;t happen to you. And if it does, the New York Times just won&#8217;t report on it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA["The extension of civil rights protections to people with pedophilia must be weighed"]]></description>
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<p>Hey remember when crazy right wingers predicted that gay marriage would lead to legalizing polygamy? Well that happened. Also they predicted that the next step would be to seek the same civil rights protections for pedophiles.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s happening in no less a forum than the New York Times which couldn&#8217;t find any terrorists to slot into its op-ed page and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html?rref=opinion&amp;_r=0">went with pedophilia instead</a>.</p>
<p>How can you possibly make child rape sympathetic? Liberals always find a way.</p>
<blockquote><p>Think back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not.</p>
<p>By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is so dishonest on so many levels that if boggles the mind. Pedophilia isn&#8217;t some sort of delayed development. Like rape, it&#8217;s about power. It&#8217;s not a mental illness. No more than homosexuality is. Framing it this way suggests that it&#8217;s something everyone grows out of.</p>
<p>But this is the liberal playbook.</p>
<p>1. Make evil seem relatable and sympathetic</p>
<p>2. Project its actions as uncontrollable due to persecution</p>
<p>3. Suggest that understanding evil will prevent it from committing more abuses</p>
<p>All three are present here.</p>
<blockquote><p>A second misconception is that pedophilia is a choice. Recent research, while often limited to sex offenders — because of the stigma of pedophilia — suggests that the disorder may have neurological origins.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well if it&#8217;s not a choice, then it&#8217;s not a crime.</p>
<blockquote><p>Men with pedophilia are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous, a finding that strongly suggests a neurological cause.</p></blockquote>
<p>Gays are also more likely to be left-handed. But assuming that there&#8217;s a neurological cause confuses correlation with causation at best.</p>
<blockquote><p>Without legal protection, a pedophile cannot risk seeking treatment or disclosing his status to anyone for support. He could lose his job, and future job prospects</p></blockquote>
<p>We should make a sitcom to teach people to accept them.</p>
<blockquote><p>There’s no question that the extension of civil rights protections to people with pedophilia must be weighed against the health and safety needs of others, especially kids. It stands to reason that a pedophile should not be hired as a grade-school teacher.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh you kidders. Ten years from now they&#8217;ll have to hire them or be sued for discrimination. Twenty years later, Disney will punish employees who work in the boy scouts because they won&#8217;t let pedophiles become Scoutmasters.</p>
<p>We already saw this movie. We know how it ends.</p>
<blockquote><p>The direct-threat analysis rejects the idea that employers can rely on generalizations; they must assess the specific case and rely on evidence, not presuppositions. Those who worry that employers would be compelled to hire dangerous pedophiles should look to H.I.V. case law, where for years courts were highly conservative, erring on the side of finding a direct threat, even into the late 1990s, when medical authorities were in agreement that people with H.I.V. could work safely in, for example, food services.</p></blockquote>
<p>So we shouldn&#8217;t worry that courts will force schools to hire pedophiles as teachers because they forced cafeterias to hire workers with HIV?</p>
<blockquote><p>Arguing for the rights of scorned and misunderstood groups is never popular, particularly when they are associated with real harm.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s always popular when you&#8217;re a liberal. Unlike arguing for the rights of children abused by the liberal victim of the month.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibit discrimination against otherwise qualified individuals with mental disabilities, in areas such as employment, education and medical care. Congress, however, explicitly excluded pedophilia from protection under these two crucial laws.</p></blockquote>
<p>Okay I&#8217;m done. Will the last one still subscribing to the New York Times please use it to clean this up.</p>
<p>Now the New York Times chose to run this, but censored McCain&#8217;s op-ed when he was running against Obama. That says it all.</p>
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		<title>New York Times Fires 7.5% of Newsroom Because No One Reads Their Editorials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The poor grey lady. It takes the time to churn out tons of editorials in support of terrorists and provides op-ed space to terrorists, but nobody is actually reading its murdered trees.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/business/media/new-york-times-plans-cutbacks-in-newsroom-staff.html?_r=0">Or its virtual ones</a>. Now the New York Times is firing a whole bunch of people because no one is reading the New York Times. Read about it in the New York Times&#8230; which no one reads.</p>
<blockquote><p>The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>And if they still refuse to leave, the Times will send out Paul Krugman to read his latest tedious rant about the rich and income equality which making enough money to pay all those 100 salaries. If the hypocrisy doesn&#8217;t get them to leave, nothing will.</p>
<blockquote><p>Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper’s publisher, and Mark Thompson, its chief executive, said that in addition to the job cuts, NYT Opinion, a new mobile app dedicated to opinion content, was shutting down because it was not attracting enough subscribers.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s like nobody cares what the New York Times thinks anymore.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Thompson said that even with the cutbacks — 100 positions comprise about 7.5 percent of the newsroom staff — The Times would continue to expand and invest heavily in initiatives that supported its growth strategy, like digital technology, audience development and mobile offerings.</p></blockquote>
<p>And then fire everyone involved in them because they aren&#8217;t paying off.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Times’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, sent a separate note to the newsroom staff. “I will use this as an opportunity to seriously reconsider some of what we do — from the number of sections we produce to the amount we spend on freelance content,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Translation, the New York Times is a few years away from turning into clickbait written by freelancers like Salon and Slate.</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is no magic bullet for the current financial plight of the news business,” Mr. Baquet wrote in his note on Wednesday. “But the journalists of The Times, with all of their creativity and belief in the future, have helped guide this company through even more turbulent times.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re being fired.</p>
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		<title>Embracing the Obvious Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why courageous truth-tellers like actor Jon Voight are vital to Israel's cause against Hamas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/40482_pro.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-239657" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/40482_pro.jpg" alt="40482_pro" width="280" height="250" /></a></span><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-world-Embracing-the-obvious-truth-372428">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It isn’t hard to understand the truth about Israel and Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Four-year-old Daniel Tragerman was murdered on Friday afternoon in his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz by Hamas terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They shot him with a mortar launched from a school in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. At the time of the launch, the school was filled with civilians who had fled to the school for shelter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They fled to the school for shelter because they were forced to vacate their homes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They were forced to vacate their homes because Hamas terrorists were launching mortars and rockets at Israeli civilian sites, like Daniel Tragerman’s home, from their apartment buildings.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The moral and ideological divide between Israel and Hamas is so self-evident that the only way to ignore it is by embracing and cultivating ignorance.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week Richard Behar published an in-depth investigative report in Forbes documenting how the US media is doing just that. As Behar demonstrated, the media is collaborating with Hamas in its war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Behar cited example after example of how the US media, led by The New York Times have systematically ignored, obfuscated and downplayed Hamas’s war crimes while swallowing whole its bogus statistics and accusations against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The greatest threat to faux reporters like the New York Times Israel bureau chief Jodi Rudoren and her colleagues are people who refuse to accept their distortions and insist that the truth be told.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most dangerous of the truth tellers are the non- Jews who stand up for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week, former British Labour MP Denis MacShane published an op-ed in Haaretz where he spoke to this point. MacShane argued that for Israel to win the information war being waged against it must cultivate non-Jewish defenders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “The British media&#8230; is awash with defenders of Hamas and Palestinian resistance. Hardly any are Muslims. In contrast, the prominent journalists – Jonathan Freedland, Daniel Finkelstein, Melanie Phillips, David Aaronovich – who support Israel are, well, Jews.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MacShane argued that because they are Jews, readers dismiss them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They “shrug their shoulders and think privately: ‘They would say that, wouldn’t they.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has an enormous reserve of support among non-Jews. But due to the mainstream media’s commitment to dishonesty and deliberate cultivation of public ignorance and moral blindness in their coverage of Israel, for many, the price of defending Israel is becoming prohibitive.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s enemies in the West do their best to reinforce this perception.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the case of Jon Voight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The celebrated Oscar-winning actor is an outspoken champion of Israel. Earlier this month, Voight published an open letter to Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in Variety where he harshly criticized the Spanish performers for their public statement condemning Israel and siding with Hamas in its war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “I am heartsick that people like Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem could incite anti-Semitism all over the world and are oblivious to the damage they have caused.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Voight was viciously attacked for speaking out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, two UCLA professors, Mark LeVine and Gil Hochberg, co-authored an article published in The Huffington Post assaulting him for his views and his temerity to suggest that Israel is a moral, embattled democracy fighting genocidal forces committed to its destruction.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The two Jewish academics are supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The principal aim of the BDS movement is to make it socially unacceptable to support Israel. In 2010 LeVine and Hochberg signed a petition calling for California state universities to divest from companies that do business with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Online Hollywood commentators, such as Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, opined that Voight, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in Showtime’s Ray Donovan series, was liable to lose his Emmy bid due to his support for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hochberg and LeVine’s assault on Voight was a long-winded voyage into the post-Zionist and anti-Zionist literary moonscape. Their principal criticism of Voight was that he refuses to accept this intellectual wasteland’s rejection of the known facts of history.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Voight is not an academic, nor has he ever claimed to be an expert on Middle Eastern history. He is a non-Jewish American concerned about the future of America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">That is why he stands with Israel. Voight recognizes that when Israel is under assault, and its right to defend itself is denied while terrorists are supported, the US is endangered. And so he feels compelled to speak out, regardless of the price.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his response to the threats to deny him the Emmy due to his support for Israel Voight told USA Today, “I’m not speaking to get awards. I’m speaking because I’m concerned about my grandchildren and the life they’re going to live, and the country they’re coming in to. I want to protect them.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Another non-Jewish champion of Israel is former US senator and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum. Both during his tenure in the Senate and since, Santorum has spoken out strongly against Iran’s nuclear program, insisting that it is a serious threat not only to Israel, but to the US itself.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like Voight, Santorum recognizes that the fate of the US is directly tied to the fate of Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For his trenchant support for Israel, and his outspoken concern about Iran’s nuclear program, as well as his support for domestic issues where he has not shied away from taking controversial, inconvenient position, Santorum’s critics have demonized him.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But undaunted, he continues to speak out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, Santorum led a solidarity mission to Israel. The majority of his colleagues were non-Jewish opinion shapers from Iowa, the first state to hold Republican presidential contests. Santorum explained that his goal in coming to Israel was not simply to show Israelis that the American people support us. It was to build support among Republicans in Iowa for a robust US engagement in foreign affairs based on supporting Israel, fighting America’s enemies and preventing the forces of hatred, like Hamas and Iran, from expanding their power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Santorum’s chief concern is that weary of foreign policy failures, more and more Republicans are embracing the isolationism most identified with Senator Rand Paul. Paul is currently polling well in Iowa.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Over the weekend Paul referred to Hillary Clinton as “a war hawk,” and said, “I think the American public is coming more and more to where I am.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Santorum is convinced that if Iowans are educated about the nature of the threats emanating from the region, and of Israel’s singular contribution to the cause of freedom and stability, their position can become the basis for a Republican foreign policy that rejects isolationism and embraces US leadership in world affairs as the only way to secure the US and strengthen its embattled allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, like Voight, Santorum’s support for Israel is rooted in his concern about America, and its future. Like Voight, Santorum recognizes that the growing penchant among elite opinion shapers to ignore truth in the pursuit of moral relativism and fake sophistication or isolationism constitutes a danger to America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week the New York Times descended to yet another low, reporting as fact totally unsubstantiated accusations by the son of a senior Hamas terrorist that Israel tortured him and used him as a human shield during a brief incarceration.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it appears that the jig may be winding down.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">More and more people are following the lead of men like Voight and Santorum, and insisting that the truth be told.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week more than 190 Hollywood luminaries followed Voight’s courageous lead and signed a public statement condemning Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Quin Hillyer, a reporter for National Review who accompanied Santorum on his mission, wrote Monday, “My visit to Israel last week confirmed that Iran and its fellow jihadists have good reason to see Israel and the United States in the same light. Israelis and Americans share the same humane, Western values&#8230;</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Israel is an oasis in a desert – in the physical, topographical sense but also metaphorically. It’s an oasis of reason, human decency and justice appropriately grounded in mercy.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MacShane is right. It is vital for more non-Jews, who refuse to deny the truth that screams out to be told, to stand up to the lies and publicly stand with Israel. It is the job of Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world to empower them by among other things, reducing the power of Israel’s enemies to make them pay a price for their decency.</span></p>
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		<title>Liberal Zionism Isn&#8217;t Dead, Liberalism Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism has been thoroughly cannibalized by the left.]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s another year and another war, which means it&#8217;s time for the mainstream media to run more essays on the death of Liberal Zionism which has been declared dead during every previous war.</p>
<p>Sensitive souls are taking to the pages to bemoan how Israel fighting terrorists violates their sense of morality.</p>
<p>Liberal Zionism isn&#8217;t dead. Liberalism is.</p>
<p>Liberalism has been thoroughly cannibalized by the left. It is thoroughly dominated by an instinctive Third World Nationalism and a distaste for Israel is part of the package. The left has a long history of hating Israel. It&#8217;s not a New Anti-Semitism, but a very old one, as even a cursory look at some of the rhetoric from the earlier part of the last century reveals.</p>
<p>The sensitive souls complaining about the peril that Liberal Zionism is neither liberals nor Zionists. They&#8217;re generic leftists whose pro-Israel bio is a package of nasty reporting dating back decades or work for some Jewish organization, not for love but for money, and some family history of Zionism.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the same story over and over again.</p>
<p>Proclaiming the death of Liberal Zionism is just more leftist spin in its campaign against Israel. It assumes that if the proclamation is made often enough and loudly enough then it will become a self-fulling prophecy and anyone who combines the two will realize that supporting Hamas is the right thing to do.</p>
<p>Case in point is Antony Lerman&#8217;s crazed rant in the Sunday Times which begins by trying to sound reasonable and then devolves into something that sounds like a cross between a Marxist professor on acid and Norman Finkelstein.</p>
<p>We start out with &#8220;Liberal Zionists are at a crossroads&#8221; and then come to&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The only Zionism of any consequence today is xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism. It is carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization to be achieved through colonization and purification of the tribe.</p></blockquote>
<p>That probably sounded better in the original Russian. Or was it the original German? I have trouble keeping track. Is this a personal vendetta? Do Hamas terrorists defecate in tunnels?</p>
<blockquote><p>I used my position at the think tank to raise questions about Israel’s political path and to initiate a community-wide debate about these issues. Naïve? Probably. I was vilified by the right-wing Jewish establishment, labeled a “self-hating Jew” and faced public calls for me to be sacked. This just confirmed what I already knew about the myopia of Jewish leadership and the intolerance of many British Zionist activists.</p></blockquote>
<p>That probably sounded better when it was being shrieked by a mad scientist holding on to a large lever. &#8220;The fools! They mocked me in the 92th Street Y! They laughed at me in London! But now I&#8217;ll show them all!&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, neither the destruction wreaked in Gaza nor the disgraceful antics of the anti-democratic forces that are setting Israel’s political agenda have produced a decisive shift in Jewish Diaspora opinion.</p></blockquote>
<p>In summary, Liberal Zionism is dead&#8230; but most Jews are Liberal Zionists.</p>
<p>Everyone can meet back again in two years to write the same editorial about the death of Liberal Zionism.</p>
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		<title>New York Times Claims it Can&#8217;t Find any Photos of Hamas Fighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Can someone please help out the New York Times? While it has come up with 560,000 photos of ten different crying men covered in blood while holding someone&#8217;s dead children, it can&#8217;t seem to <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/07/31/news-opinion/nyt-on-why-no-photos-of-hamas-fighters-we-dont-have-any-1">find a single photo of a Hamas terrorist</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>After my piece Thursday morning asking why mainstream media outlets aren’t showing photos of Hamas fighters in Gaza, The New York Times offered me this response: We don’t have any.</p>
<p>Of the 37 images that make up the Times’ most recent three slide shows of photos from the conflict, there’s not a single shot of a Hamas rocket launch (though more than 2,800 rockets have been fired at Israel) or of Hamas fighters using mosques, schools or hospitals as bases of operation.</p>
<p>Here’s what Eileen Murphy, the Times’ vice president for corporate communications, says:</p>
<p>Our photo editor went through all of our pictures recently and out of many hundreds, she found 2 very distant poor quality images that were captioned Hamas fighters by our photographer on the ground.  It is very difficult to identify Hamas because they don’t have uniforms or any visible insignia; our photographer hasn’t even seen anyone carrying a gun.</p>
<p>I would add that we would not withhold photos of Hamas militants.  We eagerly pursue photographs from both sides of the conflict, but we are limited by what our photographers have access to.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why would I not believe Eileen?</p>
<p>Hamas terrorists are notoriously shy. It&#8217;s not like they run around waving guns and RPGs while wearing black masks and green headbands.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/massacre-israel1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-237585" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/massacre-israel1-450x307.jpg" alt="massacre-israel" width="450" height="307" /></a></p>
<p>Like Bigfoot, many think that Hamas might even be a legend. Certainly not even the most daring photojournalist has come away with a single photo of the elusive creature known as the Hamas terrorist.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hamas-in-gaza.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-237586" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hamas-in-gaza-450x318.jpg" alt="hamas-in-gaza" width="450" height="318" /></a></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t expect the New York Times to perform miracles. All they have are blurry creatures who might be Hamas terrorists or Bigfoot. There&#8217;s just no way to know.</p>
<p>And in all of Gaza, they haven&#8217;t even seen anyone carrying a gun. Not one person.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Palestinian_terrorism.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237587" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Palestinian_terrorism.jpg" alt="MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS" width="275" height="295" /></a></p>
<p>And since the New York Times, that glorious bastion of journalism, which claimed that Hitler was a moderate and there was no famine in the USSR, says so.</p>
<p>So it must be true. It&#8217;s impossible to find a single photo of a Hamas terrorist. But if you happen to come across a photo of a Hamas terrorist, please email them to eileen.murphy@nytimes.com or Tweet them to her at @NYTeileen.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hamas-rocket.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237588" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hamas-rocket.jpg" alt="A Hamas supporter carries a mock Qassam rocket during a demonstration against Israel at al-Yarmouk Camp" width="420" height="292" /></a></p>
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		<title>Khaled Al-Qazzaz, Member of Muslim Brotherhood, Lies in New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the New York Times silent about the churches that Khaled Al-Qazzaz's movement burned? ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://jonathanhalevi.blogspot.com/2013/11/canadian-khaled-al-qazzazplays.html">Khaled Al-Qazzaz</a> is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international theocratic terrorist front group influenced by Nazi Germany whose members have gone on to run everything from Al Qaeda to various terrorist charities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3524/mb-charm-offensive-courts-washington">Khaled Al-Qazzaz</a> was an associate of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/meet-egypt%E2%80%99s-next-prime-minister/">Khairat el-Shater</a>, who had been busted for terrorism before. Al-Qazzaz <a href="http://jonathanhalevi.blogspot.com/2013/11/canadian-khaled-al-qazzazplays.html">was allegedly part of El-Shater&#8217;s</a> international intelligence branch of the Brotherhood.</p>
<blockquote><p>While in office Khaled al-Qazzaz was quoted as saying that Egypt will not any longer cooperate with US in the war on terror and gave a green light to Egyptians to join the fighting in Syria. “All Egyptians entitle to enjoy freedom of travel,” said Khaled al-Qazzaz who added that the “the Presidency does not regard the Egyptians who fight in Syria as a threat to the security of Egypt.” Moreover, Khaled al-Qazzaz promised that “we will not become a centre for arresting or prosecuting Egyptians based on what they did in other countries.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Since Al-Qazzaz has Canadian citizenship, despite being a member of a foreign government, there have been rallies for him, his wife is all over the place, and there are attempts at viral campaigns by Muslim Brotherhood front group members in the West.</p>
<p>The New York Times, always eager to give an op-ed to a Jihadist, <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/06/nyt-prints-smuggled-letter-from.html">rolled out its editorial welcome wagon for him</a>.</p>
<p>The sheer dishonesty of the op-ed and the New York Times for running it can be measured in the fact that it never uses the brand &#8220;Muslim Brotherhood&#8221; in the text or even the bio, even though it&#8217;s all over Al-Qazzaz&#8217;s Twitter account.</p>
<p>This is the same New York Times which refused to run an op-ed by McCain when he was running against Obama because they disagreed with some of its content.</p>
<p>This situation is typical of the fact that Muslim Brotherhood members are allowed to run their editorials without mentioning what they are. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/foreign-policy-runs-op-ed-from-muslim-brotherhood-nobel-peace-prize-winner-in-support-of-morsi/">Foreign Policy Magazine did the same thing last year</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am an engineer by education and an educator by profession. After the Egyptian revolution in 2011, I became interested in politics. I joined the presidential campaign and then found myself chosen to be the foreign relations secretary to Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in July 2012,&#8221; Al-Qazzaz writes in the op-ed.</p>
<p>This is blatantly dishonest.</p>
<p><a href="http://jonathanhalevi.blogspot.com/2013/11/canadian-khaled-al-qazzazplays.html">Khaled Al-Qazzaz</a> had long been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He did not become &#8220;interested&#8221; in politics in 2011.</p>
<p>You do not become &#8220;interested&#8221; in politics in 2011 and become the foreign relations secretary. Even the most naive liberal dupes know it doesn&#8217;t work that way.</p>
<p>&#8220;When the military ousted Mr. Morsi’s government, it was predictable that the president and his aides would pay a heavy price. I made the decision, along with eight other staff members, to wait with the president for the moment of his arrest on July 3, 2013,&#8221; Al-Qazzaz writes.</p>
<p>In fact Morsi was ousted by a populist uprising that Morsi and the Brotherhood met with brutal assaults and torture. The military came down on the side of the protesters.</p>
<p>&#8220;We set out a human rights agenda for Egypt that was spearheaded by the president’s office and that invited the United Nations to open a headquarters for UN Women Egypt in Cairo,&#8221; Khaled Al-Qazzaz writes.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Morsi&#8217;s boys were raping female protesters in broad daylight.</p>
<p>&#8220;We recommended legislative reforms to advance a new Egypt, and we met with all the local and international stakeholders we could to develop that agenda,&#8221; Khaled Al-Qazzaz writes.</p>
<p>By &#8220;agenda&#8221;, he means Islamic law, disenfranchisement of women, Christians, Bahai and anyone who wasn&#8217;t Brotherhood.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am facing this treatment because of what I represent. I represent a worldview that is built on a genuine exchange and understanding between civilizations and cultures,&#8221; Khaled Al-Qazzaz writes.</p>
<p>Khaled Al-Qazzaz represents the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization so foul that he won&#8217;t even mention it in his op-ed.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=1757">The Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s motto</a> is &#8220;Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur&#8217;an is our law. Jihad is our way.<br />
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”</p>
<p>Muslim Brotherhood thugs in Egypt burned churches, raped women and terrorized minorities. That was its &#8220;genuine exchange and understanding between cultures and civilizations&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mohammed Morsi, Khaled Al-Qazzaz&#8217;s boss, told US Senators that <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/morsi-told-us-senators-that-media-is-run-by-the-jews/">Jews run the media </a>and had given a speech urging Egyptians to <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/president-morsi-we-must-nurse-our-children-and-grandchildren-on-hatred-for-jews/">nurse their children and grandchildren on hatred for the Jews</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what Morsi and Khaled Al-Qazzaz and the whole Muslim Brotherhood stand for.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why are you so silent about me?” Khaled Al-Qazzaz asks.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a better question, why are Khaled Al-Qazzaz and the New York Times silent about the terrorist group that he belongs to? Why are they silent about the churches that Khaled Al-Qazzaz&#8217;s movement burned? Why are they silent about the women that his movement raped? Why are they silent about its violent bigotry and hatred?</p>
<p>Why is the New York Times giving a member of a hate group that makes the KKK look like Up With People a forum to lie about who he is and what he stands for?</p>
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		<title>Behind Robert Mackey’s Continued Assault on Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AMH_3230.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234426" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AMH_3230-450x300.jpg" alt="AMH_3230" width="314" height="209" /></a>The <i>New York Times</i> has distinguished itself as one of the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/PM-advisers-letter-to-New-York-Times"><span style="color: #0433ff;">most anti-Israel papers of today</span></a>. Its writers habitually skew events to fit a particular narrative, one that is misleading and often, <a href="http://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">devoid of any truth</span></a>. But among its cadre of writers, there stands one who is without a doubt heads and shoulders above the rest in terms of both his anti-Israel invective and propensity to engage in outright mendacity and that dubious distinction goes to Robert Mackey.</p>
<p>To say that Mackey’s coverage of Israel is reprehensible simply doesn’t do justice to the word. Consider his latest article, <a href="http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/israelis-start-bringbackourboys-campaign/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Israelis Start #BringBackOurBoys Campaign</i></span></a><i>. </i>An outpouring of sympathy for three Israeli youths kidnapped by Arab terrorists while hitchhiking prompted those supportive of Israel to take to social media in an effort to bring attention to their dire plight.</p>
<p>Here’s Mackey’s spin; “<i>A group of Israelis trained to promote their country online started a #BringBackOurBoys campaign last week after three teenagers disappeared on their way home from religious schools in the occupied West Bank</i>.” First, how does Mackey know for certain that Israelis created the site? The kidnapping produced a wave of both outrage and support throughout the international community, from <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/brazil-jewish-community-rallies-for-abducted-teens/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Brazil</span></a> to the <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/06/17/news-opinion/united-states/american-jews-take-up-cause-of-missing-israeli-teens-1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">United States</span></a>. The Facebook page that Mackey refers to could have therefore been created in any number of countries and by any number of people of varied nationalities.</p>
<p>Second, assuming that the page was created by Israelis, how does Mackey know that those who created the page were “<i>trained to promote their country online</i>”? Mackey embeds that part of the sentence with a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=260781"><span style="color: #0433ff;">link to an article</span></a> that talks about Haifa University offering an elective to students on ways to combat international deligitimization efforts by anti-Israel activists. But Mackey has no way of knowing that the creators of the page took such a course or even attended Haifa University for that matter and the leap is therefore beyond irrational. Indeed, Israelis are among the most prolific users of social media and are also among the most tech savvy so it’s not a stretch to imagine that some kid or a group of kids, devoid of any formal “training” commenced the campaign.</p>
<p>Here Mackey’s malevolence truly comes to the fore. He creates a moral inversion of sorts by linking grassroots Israeli efforts to free the kidnapped youths to automaton-like agents of government propaganda. This certainly is not the first time that Mackey has engaged in this sort of insidious yellow journalism.</p>
<p>Indeed, as <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/03/robert_mackey_hostility_undimi.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">CAMERA points out</span></a>, during operation Pillar of Defense, a private Israeli citizen had uncovered yet another <a href="http://www.idfblog.com/2012/03/12/photos-gaza-aerial-strikes-proven-false/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Palestinian hoax</span></a>, this one involving the wide dissemination of a photo of an injured child purportedly hurt by indiscriminate Israeli fire. However, the caption accompanying the photo was false. The child had been injured six years prior after falling off a swing. The Israel Defense Forces then published the true version of events on its Twitter account. But to Mackey, the story wasn’t about malicious and false propaganda disseminated against the Jewish State; the story was about how, in Mackey’s words, “<i>Israel’s military pursues enemies on Twitter</i>.” Mackey displays little or no interest in reporting on substantive lies against Israel; he chooses instead to obsessively focus on how Israel’s “propaganda machine” moves into high gear.</p>
<p>Third, whereas most commentators and writers have noted that the hitchhiking youths were kidnapped in the West Bank, Mackey stands out from the crowd by reminding his readers that the kidnapping occurred not in the West Bank but the “occupied” West Bank, as if the boys brought this upon themselves for being in a place they shouldn’t have been. Moreover, by adopting such terminology, which incidentally has officially and unequivocally been <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Aussie-clarity-355907"><span style="color: #0433ff;">rejected</span></a> by the government of Australia, Mackey has clearly picked sides leaving little doubt about where his sympathies lie.</p>
<p>Fourth, as blogger Yisrael Medad very astutely points out in a talkback, Mackey is besotted (in an unhealthy way) by social media aimed at freeing the captive youths but completely ignores the Arab &#8220;<a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/three-fingered-salute-new-low-even-for-palestinian-society/2014/06/17/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">three-finger salute</span></a>&#8221; campaign in which children and adults hold aloft three fingers to signify victory and identification with the terrorists who kidnapped the three Jewish children. We can deduce one of two things from this disparate treatment. Either Mackey identifies with the kidnappers or more likely, does not approve of the action but views gleeful Palestinian identification with it as harmful to the Palestinian cause and thus chooses to ignore it, much like the way the New York Times ignored <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA0NKQ0k6E"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cheering Palestinians</span></a> after 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9-11.</p>
<p>Fifth, Mackey has a penchant for citing fringe, anti-Israel and often times, anti-Semitic bloggers in his posts. He has a particular fondness for the rabidly anti-Israel blogger Ali Abunimah who has created an online industry of vitriolic hate for the Jewish State. The instant article is no exception.</p>
<p>Mackey refers to a tweet by Abunimah in which Abunimah alleges that an Israeli Facebook page calls for the “<i>kill[ing] [of] a Palestinian every hour</i>.” Mackey accepts Abunimah’s translation of the page without reservation or equivocation, as if everything sputtered by Abunimah represents truth. In fact, the page translates as follows; “<i>Until our youth are returned, every hour we shoot a terrorist</i>.” Not exactly politically correct but a far cry from Abunimah’s deliberately skewed translation. That Mackey doesn’t even bother to double check the translation is reflective of either shoddy journalism or deliberate mendacity.</p>
<p>But ultimately, it is the vetters at the New York Times, those we trust to ensure that what we are reading is accurate, who are responsible for what we see in print. Unfortunately, the gatekeepers are  sleeping, or worse, complicit in Mackey’s deeply troubling reporting.</p>
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		<title>The New York Times Defends Al-Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Gray Lady” is always last to report on persecution of Christians—but always first to whitewash jihadis.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ny.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-233802" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ny.jpg" alt="ny" width="275" height="183" /></a><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4353/ny-times-al-qaeda">Gatestone Institute</a>.</em></p>
<p>Why are some of the biggest Western mainstream media outlets—especially the <em>New York Times</em> (NYT)—often apologetic, not only for radical Islamists, but for al-Qaeda, an organization responsible for, among other atrocities, killing nearly 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001?</p>
<p>A recent NYT report titled “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/abduction-of-girls-an-act-not-even-al-qaeda-can-condone.html?_r=0">Abduction of Girls an Act Not Even Al Qaeda Can Condone</a>” tries to exonerate al-Qaeda of the actions of another jihadi organization, Nigeria’s Boko Haram—when both groups are not only affiliated but remarkably similar in outlook and method. The report’s opening sentence summarizes its thesis: “As word spread like wildfire on Twitter and Facebook that Nigerian militants were preparing to auction off more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls in the name of Islam, a very different Internet network started quietly buzzing too,” one which, according to the NYT, reflects “the dismay of fellow jihadists at the innocent targets of Boko Haram’s violence”:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Such news [abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls] is spread to taint the image of the Mujahedeen,” wrote one dubious poster on a web forum used by Islamic militants whose administrator uses a picture of Osama bin Laden. “I have brothers from Africa who are in this group,” attested another, insisting that they were like “the Quran walking the earth [i.e., righteous and just].”</p>
<p>Boko Haram, the cultlike Nigerian group that carried out the kidnappings, was rejected long ago by mainstream Muslim scholars and Islamist parties around the world for its seemingly senseless cruelty and capricious violence against civilians. But this week its stunning abduction appeared too much even for fellow militants normally eager to condone terrorist acts against the West and its allies.</p>
<p>“There is news that they attacked a girls’ school!” another astonished poster wrote on the same jihadi forum …</p></blockquote>
<p>The NYT’s assertion that Boko Haram’s “stunning abduction appeared too much even for fellow militants” is strange indeed.</p>
<p>The fact is, this “stunning abduction” pales in comparison to the many other atrocities Boko Haram has committed, and as documented in Gatestone Institute’s <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january">Muslim Persecution of Christians series</a>, where not a month goes by without numerous atrocities committed by the Nigerian jihadis, including the bombing or burning of hundreds of churches, especially on <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christmas-holiday-islamic-horror/">Christmas Day</a> and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/death-to-churches/">Easter Day</a>, which have left hundreds of worshippers dead or dismembered in the last few years.</p>
<p>Indeed, Boko Haram’s jihad has resulted in <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130520121457.htm">more Christians killed than in the rest of the world combined</a>.</p>
<p>As for the recent abduction, there is certainly nothing “stunning” about it. In fact, back in 2012, Boko Haram warned that it would do just this, <a href="http://www.kkms.com/11666938/">declaring</a> that it was preparing to “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women.” Before and since then it, has kidnapped, raped, and/or converted countless Christian girls.</p>
<p>Perhaps the only thing “stunning” is that this latest raid on schoolgirls, the <a href="https://barnabasaid.org/Over-200-schoolgirls-kidnapped-from-Christian-town-in-Nigeria.html">majority of whom are Christian</a>, was widely reported and managed to reach the Western mainstream.</p>
<p>Thus it’s not the act of abduction itself that, as the NYT puts it, is “too much even for fellow militants”—but rather that the world heard about it. Hence why Muslim clerics and the NYT had to respond—the former with formal disavowals of Boko Haram, the latter with articles like this.</p>
<p>Next the NYT quotes a supposed al-Qaeda expert saying, “The violence most of the African rebel groups practice makes Al Qaeda look like a bunch of schoolgirls.”</p>
<p>This is strange indeed. Is the incineration of nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11 the act of a “bunch of schoolgirls”? (For a long list of atrocities committed by al-Qaeda and the Taliban before September 11, 2001—many which make the recent Nigerian abduction seem like child play—<a href="http://www.usembassy.it/file2001_11/alia/a1112310.htm">click here</a>.)</p>
<p>The NYT also fails to mention that most African Islamic groups waging jihad to enforce Islamic law—from Nigeria’s Boko Haram to Somalia’s al-Shabaab—are closely affiliated to al-Qaeda, often seen as regional branches of the terrorist organization.</p>
<p>The NYT is never the first to report on atrocities committed by jihadis against Christians and other minorities, but it is always first to try to whitewash and apologize for the jihadis&#8217; role whenever news of jihadi atrocities appears from other media outlets. The article, by <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/nigerias-christmas-present-blown-up-christians/">Adam Nossiter</a> and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/other-matters/the-new-york-times-propaganda-war-on-egypt/">David Kirkpatrick</a>, continues with information that is simply false:</p>
<blockquote><p>Its [Boko Haram’s] violence is broader and more casual than Al Qaeda or other jihadist groups. Indeed, its reputation for the mass murder of innocent civilians is <em>strikingly inconsistent</em> with a current push by Al Qaeda’s leaders to avoid such deaths for fear of alienating potential supporters (emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p>All this is nonsense. For example, in 2012—after it had decapitated countless Christian men and women on the accusation of apostasy as well as any number of other atrocities—far from being ostracized, Somalia’s al-Shabaab was <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/africa/al-shabaab-and-al-qaeda-post-joint-video">heartily welcomed</a> into the al-Qaeda fold by Ayman Zawahiri.</p>
<p>As for Boko Haram, it too has <a href="http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/pdf/AQList.pdf">deep connections to al-Qaeda</a>. According to the United Nations Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee, Boko Haram is affiliated with the core leadership of al-Qaeda as well as its nearby Maghrebi branch.</p>
<p>Next the NYT declares that Boko Haram’s extreme violence “was the subject of the dispute that led to Al Qaeda’s recent break with its former affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”</p>
<p>This invention seems meant to distance al-Qaeda from yet another brutal savage Islamic organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], which has also been committing any number of atrocities—including crucifying people, bombing churches, and raping non-Muslims. In reality, &#8220;atrocities&#8221; are hardly the reason for the conflict between ISIS and al-Qaeda. ISIS was committing atrocities even when it was connected to al-Qaeda. The dispute was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/al-qaeda-disavows-any-ties-with-radical-islamist-isis-group-in-syria-iraq/2014/02/03/2c9afc3a-8cef-11e3-98ab-fe5228217bd1_story.html">about power politics</a>.</p>
<p>Why is the NYT trying so hard to make al-Qaeda and other Islamists look better—to exonerate them of the widely exposed crimes of Boko Haram and ISIS?</p>
<p>If people started to connect the dots and understand that <em>all</em> Islamists (al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS, al-Shabaab, al-Nusra Front, etc.), when they commit atrocities against non-Muslims, do it simply out of religious hate, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/why-the-media-doesnt-cover-jihadist-attacks-on-middle-east-christians/">the narrative that Western governments and mainstream media so stubbornly uphold</a>—that al-Qaeda&#8217;s terrorism, including 9/11, is based on &#8220;grievances against the West and Israel,&#8221; and not Islamic supremacism and religious hate—would quickly unravel.</p>
<p>The NYT article even manages to invoke the grievance paradigm when discussing Boko Haram&#8217;s terror: &#8220;Boko Haram tapped into growing anger among northern Nigerians at their poverty and lack of opportunity as well as the humiliating abuses of the government&#8217;s security forces.&#8221; Boko Haram may well have tapped into a poverty level— most people in &#8220;developing countries,&#8221; including southern Nigeria, are poor—but the NYT totally disregards that many noted jihadis are doctors, engineers, well-educated and often affluent, including al-Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohammed Atta, and Major Nidal Hasan.</p>
<p>A recent <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/denmark-muslims-218-percent-more-criminal-in-2nd-generation-than-first">Danish statistical study</a> of immigrant families even finds that &#8220;Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first,&#8221; despite the fact that the second generation are more prosperous and educated than their first generation parents.</p>
<p>Yet the NYT insists on portraying terrorists as victims.</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda itself already <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/an-analysis-of-al-qaidas-worldview/">put this question of grievances to rest</a>. The late Osama bin Laden, in a private letter to Saudi Muslims, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/offensive-jihad/">rhetorically asked</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them <em>ultimately</em> revolve around one issue&#8230; Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam&#8230; Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>New York Times Writer Complains About What the New York Times Does</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>First comes the usual snark about Twitter and new media degrading news.</p>
<blockquote><p>Something happens, and before the facts are even settled, the morals are deduced and the lessons drawn. The story is absorbed into agendas. Everyone has a preferred take on it, a particular use for it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Then finally Frank Bruni admits that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/sunday/bruni-full-screed-ahead.html?_r=1">this is how the New York Times does things</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>To write for The Times and to know the principal players was to see this for the oversimplification that it was and to note that we were getting a taste of our own medicine: How often had some of us here emphasized one story line to the exclusion of others in sizing up a candidate or corporation?</p></blockquote>
<p>But then he backtracks and blames social media.</p>
<blockquote><p>News has always been paired with analysis, and a certain degree of assumption and conjecture rightly enters into the laudable attempt to make sense of things. What has changed over recent years are the platforms and the metabolism of the process. Twitter and other social media coax rapid-fire reactions from a broad audience&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sorry Frank, but it&#8217;s not about Twitter. Yes Twitter makes things worse, but it makes things worse that were already bad.</p>
<p>The root of the problem isn&#8217;t Twitter. It&#8217;s the pathology of liberal activist journalism presented infamously as &#8220;Explaining America to itself.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eventually the graduates of the New Left saturated everything with agendas. They politicized everything until you couldn&#8217;t write a restaurant review without discussing locally grown food, fair trade and the representation of Latino female chefs at steakhouses.</p>
<p>An informed reader&#8217;s job 1 when processing anything these days is to ask what the agenda is. Analysis is agenda. Explaining is propaganda.</p>
<p>The old fashioned reporter is dead. He was replaced by a social justice warrior with a press pass. And social justice warriors eat their own. That&#8217;s what happened to the New York Times.</p>
<p>Frank Bruni states the obvious, but offers no proposal to return to another way of doing things. Instead he concludes by blaming Americans for the sins of their media.</p>
<blockquote><p>Americans have seemingly grown accustomed to this. They may even hunger for it. With just a few clicks of the mouse or taps on the remote, they find something to confirm their prejudices, to validate their perspectives. And the gratification is almost instant.</p></blockquote>
<p>Americans would like to turn on the news and read the paper and get reliable information. Poll after poll shows that they don&#8217;t believe they can do that anymore.</p>
<p>Twitter didn&#8217;t polarize America and its media institutions along sharp political lines. Outlets like the New York Times did. And then you ended up with articles written to match White House talking points and the erosion of the line between the front page and the editorial page.</p>
<p>The social media that Bruni complains about has vulgarized this perversion of journalism. It took away its pretense of high-mindedness and threw in &#8220;We need to talk about X&#8221; to set the political profit motive for every scandal.</p>
<p>But they&#8217;re just doing what the New York Times had been doing. Only without shame.</p>
<p>The New York Times writes gun control pieces after a shooting. They write, &#8220;The NRA is a blood death murder machine&#8221; pieces.</p>
<p>The difference is in the style, not the substance.</p>
<p>Both are telling a particular story. They&#8217;re exploiting a tragedy for the sake of their political agenda. It didn&#8217;t start yesterday, but what has changed is the near absence of non-agenda reporting especially on the national stage. If everything is biased, then everyone is entitled to their own biased citizen journalism.</p>
<p>Twitter isn&#8217;t the problem here. It&#8217;s the solution to the bad journalism of the New York Times.</p>
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		<title>The New York Times’ Propaganda War on Egypt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Death-toll-up-to-14-in-massive-Egypt-protests-Morsi-given-deadline.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226092 alignleft" alt="Death-toll-up-to-14-in-massive-Egypt-protests-Morsi-given-deadline" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Death-toll-up-to-14-in-massive-Egypt-protests-Morsi-given-deadline-450x345.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>A recent </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/world/middleeast/egypt-religious-minorities.html?hpw&amp;rref=world&amp;_r=0">article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> exemplifies why the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> simply cannot be trusted.  Written by one David Kirkpatrick and titled “Vow of Freedom of Religion Goes Unkept in Egypt,” the article disingenuously interprets general truths in an effort to validate its thesis.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Much of this is done by omitting relevant facts that provide needed context.  For example, Kirkpatrick makes Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the military—widely recognized as the heroes of the June 2013 revolution that toppled former President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood—appear responsible for the poor state of religious freedom in Egypt, when in fact the military has no authority over the judicial system, which is independent.</span></p>
<p>Even so, there is much evidence that Egypt, while far from becoming a Western-style democracy, is on a better path—certainly than under the Muslim Brotherhood.  But these are seldom mentioned in the NYT report.  Most recently, for example, the military-backed government jailed a popular Islamic scholar for contempt against Christianity—something that never happened under Morsi, when clerics were regularly and openly condemning and mocking Christians.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Similarly, Sheikh Yassir Burhami, the face of Egypt’s Salafi movement, is facing prosecution for contempt against Christianity for stating that Easter is an “infidel” celebration and that Muslims should not congratulate Christians during Easter celebrations.  Previously under Morsi, Burhami was free to say even worse—including issuing a fatwa banning taxi drivers from transporting Christian priests to their churches.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some positive developments are twisted to look as attacks on religious freedom.   Kirkpatrick complains that “The new government has tightened its grip on mosques, pushing imams to follow state-approved sermons,” as if that is some sort of infringement on their rights, when in fact, mosques are the primary grounds where Muslims are radicalized to violence, especially against religious minorities like Coptic Christians.  This is amply demonstrated by the fact that the overwhelming majority of attacks on churches and Christians occur on Friday, the one day of the week when Muslims congregate in mosques and listen to sermons. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“State-approved sermons” are much more moderate and pluralistic in nature and the government’s way of keeping radicals and extremists from mosque podiums.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If Kirkpatrick truly cared about the religious freedom of Egypt’s minorities, he would laud this move by the government, instead of trying to portray it as an infringement of the rights of the radicals to “freely” preach hate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Another positive development overlooked by the article is that Egypt’s native church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, was involved in drafting the new, post-Morsi constitution, and was allowed to voice its opinion over controversial Article Two, which deals with how influential Islamic Sharia will be in governing society.  The Church accepted a more moderate version than the previous one articulated under Morsi, which the Church as well as millions of Egyptian Muslims, were against due to its draconian, Islamist nature.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Speaking of the Copts—who are Egypt’s litmus test concerning religious freedom—a closer examination of them alone demonstrates the disingenuous nature of Kirkpatrick’s observations. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Early in the report, and in the context of stating that “the new military-backed government has fallen back into patterns of sectarianism that have prevailed here for decades,”  Kirkpatrick asserts that “Prosecutors continue to jail Coptic Christians …. on charges of contempt of religion.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Interestingly, while this suggests Christians are being jailed under the current government on charges of blasphemy, a close reading reveals that that is not the case.  Rather, Kirkpatrick is referring to the many Copts who were incarcerated under Morsi’s reign, some of whom still remain in jail. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Kirkpatrick seems to think that those not yet freeing Christians—due to the chaos it would likely cause among the already highly aggrieved Islamist/Salafi population—are as religiously intolerant as those who threw them in prison in the first place.   </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, back then under Morsi, when the full extent of “legal” persecution of Christian Copts in the context of “blasphemy” </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/arab-spring-egypts-legal-persecution-of-christians/">was revealed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the NYT and Kirkpatrick were remarkably silent. </span></p>
<p>The dissembling continues.  Writes Kirkpatrick: “Many Coptic Christians and other religious minorities cheered the military takeover <i>because they feared</i> the Muslim Brotherhood, a religiously exclusive movement whose leaders have a history of <i>denigrating</i> non-Muslims” (emphasis added).</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Christians did not “fear” the Brotherhood because their leaders have a long “history of denigrating non-Muslims,” but rather because their leaders have a long history of inciting violence and hate against Christians, leading to countless attacks and atrocities on Copts and their churches over the decades. </span></p>
<p>Under Morsi, Coptic Christianity’s most symbolic church and papal residence, St Mark Cathedral, was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/the-siege-of-egypts-st-mark-cathedral-an-insiders-account/">savagely attacked</a> by an Islamist mob, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/scandal-morsi-government-permits-savage-attack-on-st-mark-cathedral/">aided and abetted by state security</a>.  Then, Coptic Pope Tawadros <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/an-islamic-declaration-of-war-on-christianity/">said</a> that Morsi had “promised to do everything to protect the cathedral but in reality we don’t see this….  We need action not only words… There is no action on the ground…  This flagrant assault on a national symbol, the Egyptian church, has never been subjected to this in 2,000 years.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Kirkpatrick also fails to inform his readership that due to Muslim Brotherhood incitement against the Copts for “daring” to participate in the June revolution against Morsi, in “retaliation,” some 80 churches in Egypt were bombed, burned, or simply attacked by Brotherhood supporters. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Also left unsaid by the NYT is that it was Sisi who pledged that the armed forces would rebuild and renovate the destroyed churches. According to church officials, the army will be done renovating and rebuilding 16 of the churches destroyed by the Brotherhood by the end of June, at which point they will begin phase two of renovating the rest of churches.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Far from pointing this out, Kirkpatrick implies Sisi is indifferent to the Copts, writing for example that “unlike a rival presidential candidate, [Sisi] declined to attend Mass” at the Coptic cathedral during Easter.   The fact is, due to Brotherhood assassination attempts—which the rival presidential candidate need not worry from—Sisi has had to decline many public events, not just Easter. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">From here one can understand why Kirkpatrick’s next assertion makes perfect sense, even as he offers it with some puzzlement: “But the complaints about continued sectarianism have not deterred church leaders from firmly supporting Mr. Sisi as their protector against worse treatment by the Muslim majority.  The Coptic pope, Tawadros II, has hailed Mr. Sisi as overwhelmingly popular, ‘a competent patriot’ on ‘an arduous mission,’ and ‘the one who rescued Egypt.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In short, when it comes to religious freedom and tolerance, the current government, although far from perfect, is also better than its Brotherhood predecessor.   Hence why, not only the Coptic Church, but the majority of Egypt’s millions of Christians, support Sisi.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Needless to say, that is not the impression that Kirkpatrick gives, as he quotes an unknown Copt calling the pope’s statements which were supportive of Sisi “stupid and myopic.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thus it is only in the most general of ways that Kirkpatrick’s NYT article is accurate—in that, yes, religious freedom is still very problematic in Egypt, especially for minorities such as the Copts.  It is true that police and security often do little to protect the Copts and their churches from Islamists–but this is partially because police stations are also under attack.  Pope Tawadros recently confirmed that, in light of the circumstances, the police and government in general are doing better than under Morsi.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Overlooked and ignored are the true culprits of radicalization—the Muslim Brotherhood and allied Islamists, who, through the mosques and satellite stations, have been radicalizing Egypt for decades.  It will take a long time, if ever, to eradicate their influence, but the post-Brotherhood government is a first step in the right direction—despite the NYT’s nonstop propaganda to whitewash the Muslim Brotherhood and sometimes </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/africa/abduction-of-girls-an-act-not-even-al-qaeda-can-condone.html?_r=0">even al-Qaeda</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
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		<title>Robert Mackey: Portrait of a Propagandist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 04:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel radicalism on display at the New York Times. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AMH_3230.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225996" alt="AMH_3230" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AMH_3230-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>There was a time when the New York Times could be considered a respectable daily, when featured articles were both informative and engaging. When prolific writers such as A.M. Rosenthal and William Safire presented balanced Op-Eds that were not necessarily goose-stepping with upper elitist echelons of the Times’ editorial board and when articles could be relied upon to present facts and not </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2010/03/remember-this-picture.html">base propaganda</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/05/10/ny.times.reporter/">fabricated nonsense</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. That time has long since passed. Today’s New York Times is a mere shell of its former past and has sadly degenerated into a propaganda outlet whose news articles feature a convoluted blend of radicalism and yellow journalism.</span></p>
<p>Consider Robert Mackey’s recent column in “<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/video-shows-killing-of-palestinians-on-nakba-day/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;ref=world&amp;_r=0"><i>The Lede</i></a>” concerning a violent Palestinian protest where two demonstrators were killed. A video, released by the pro-Palestinian group “<a href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/israeli-forces-shoot-and-kill-two-palestinian-teens-near-ramallah">Defence (sic) for Children International Palestine</a>” purports to show the killing of two seemingly innocent people moseying along on a placid street. The article’s headline says it all; “Video Shows Killing of Palestinians on ‘Nakba Day.’” There you have it, Israel is guilty and the video proves it. Of course no one has scrutinized the heavily edited video and it still has to undergo an authentication process but Mackey, turned judge, jury and executioner, accepts the Palestinian narrative without reservation or equivocation and has turned an allegation into fact. By contrast, other publications that covered the incident featured headlines that treated the story as an allegation or claim that had yet to be proven.</p>
<p>Mackey attributes the video to “Defense (sic) for Children International.” Here Mackey demonstrates his subtle mendacity. He forgets or rather neglects to add “Palestine” after “International.” By omitting “Palestine,” Mackey is attempting to lull the unsuspecting reader into believing that this is an impartial group when, in fact, it is as partisan as they come. Interestingly, the group features Mackey’s article, or more appropriately, propaganda piece, on its website presenting a good example of propaganda feeding off propaganda.</p>
<p>The screed continues with Mackey stating that in 1948 “hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes into exile.” Driven from their homes? Really? Most mainstream scholarly sources who have studied the matter of the Palestinian refugees have concluded that for a variety of reasons, including economic hardship, low morale, general fear and a call by the Arab leadership to vacate pending an invasion, the majority of Palestinians <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFrefugees.html">fled on their own volition</a>. Yet Mackey again adopts the debunked Palestinian narrative by making it appear as though at least as many were expelled (by Israel) as fled.</p>
<p>Mackey, who refers to Israel as the “occupation authority,” engages in a transparent effort to pile on malicious criticism. He embeds twitter posts by an obscure, fringe blogger named Gershon Baskin who unsurprisingly condemned Israel for both the deaths and the so-called “occupation,” which he termed “immoral and unjust.” Baskin’s positions are regarded as well to the left of Israel’s left and are similar to the repugnant views expressed by the likes of Roger Waters and Richard Falk. That Mackey sees fit to mainstream Baskin’s odious views speaks volumes about his pernicious agenda.</p>
<p>Mackey then takes the opportunity to take a swipe at respected Times of Israel correspondent Avi Issacharoff, who was <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/yes-my-life-was-in-danger-no-i-wont-stop-doing-my-job/">nearly lynched</a> by an enraged Arab mob while covering the violent demonstration. Mackey fails to note that Palestinian journalists betrayed their profession and actually aided and abetted in the assault by alerting the thugs to Mr. Issacharoff’s nationality. This gross deviation of journalistic norms strangely doesn’t seem to faze Mackey the journalist. Instead Mackey questions the validity of Mr. Issacharoff’s claim by introducing posts featured in the notoriously unreliable and rabidly anti-Israel blog, Electronic Intifada. Regrettably but predictably, Mackey’s dubious sources easily passed muster through the Times’ vetting process.</p>
<p>Throughout the article, Mackey goes to great lengths to buttress Palestinian narratives while attempting to discount and deflate Israeli claims. Mackey’s views as expressed in this story are unsurprising. His past history suggests a visceral hate for the State of Israel, <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/03/robert_mackey_hostility_undimi.html">evidenced</a> by <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2013/05/robert_mackey_moral_inversion_1.html">well-documented</a> <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&amp;x_article=2465">anti-Israel bias</a> <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&amp;x_article=2410">compiled</a> by the media watchdog, CAMERA.</p>
<p>Mackey has even been known to discount Israeli positions when those positions are supported by UN findings as was the case in November 2012 when an errant Palestinian rocket fell short (of its intended civilian target) and landed on a Palestinian house killing an infant. Israel was initially blamed but in one of those rare instances of UN lucidity, a subsequent UN investigation revealed that the cause of the blast was likely Palestinian rocket fire. Mackey went through <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/u-n-report-reframes-debate-over-searing-image-of-a-fathers-agony-in-gaza/?comments">torturous lengths</a> to cast doubt on the UN report. Despite overwhelming evidence exonerating Israel, Mackey gives credence to the notion that Israel was to blame and this proved too much to bear for many of his readers who, in the talkback section, offered scathing criticism of his skewed take. In fact, one commentator, noting some glaring omissions in Mackey’s reporting, actually forced Mackey to revise the article and include the omitted material. Aside from the noted correction, Mackey struck a defensive tone when responding to his detractors and attributed the criticism to petty partisanship. Now if that’s not the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.</p>
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		<title>Statistics Show 4% of NY Times Reporters Are Serial Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 04:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/save_troy_davis_poster.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226029" alt="save_troy_davis_poster" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/save_troy_davis_poster-356x350.png" width="249" height="245" /></a>The New York Times has been touting a study purporting to show that 4 percent of death row inmates have been &#8220;falsely convicted.&#8221; &#8220;Falsely convicted&#8221; is not &#8220;innocent.&#8221; But after being processed through the lawyer-to-journalist telephone game, &#8220;insignificant procedural errors&#8221; quickly becomes &#8220;27 guys didn&#8217;t do it!&#8221;</p>
<p>What the study actually shows is that those sentenced to death are more likely to have their convictions overturned than those sentenced to prison.</p>
<p>Yeah, we knew that. Anti-death penalty fanatics fight every execution tooth and claw. Sometimes they get lucky. What the statisticians have proved is that it&#8217;s very difficult to be executed in this country.</p>
<p>Most of the media cited this pointless study to proclaim that &#8220;statistical analysis&#8221; proves that 4 percent of people on death row are innocent. They just have to be! And if you disagree, you must hate science.</p>
<p>Whether innocent people have been executed is not a matter that lends itself to statistical analysis. We have the names of every person who has been executed &#8212; 1,373 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.</p>
<p>A few dozen lawyers could each take home a stack of case files for the weekend and find the innocent guy &#8212; if there were one. But despite years of searching by single-minded zealots, they still don&#8217;t have the name of one innocent person executed in at least the last half-century.</p>
<p>Identifying the innocent has lead to embarrassments in the past. In this week&#8217;s and next week&#8217;s columns, we&#8217;ll review the left&#8217;s last few poster boys for &#8220;innocence.&#8221;</p>
<p>First: Troy Davis.</p>
<p>The day of Troy Davis&#8217; execution, MSNBC and CNN went live until midnight to cover it, much like the 9/11 terrorist attack. Rachel Maddow posted an article claiming there was &#8220;persistent doubt that the death-row inmate is guilty of the crime of which he was convicted,&#8221; under the headline, &#8220;Georgia plans to kill Troy Davis tomorrow.&#8221;</p>
<p>(This was a delightful change from Rachel&#8217;s usual nightly smirk-fest.)</p>
<p>A reporter for the British Guardian claimed Davis was &#8220;very possibly innocent.&#8221; Amnesty International issued a statement after the execution, announcing that Georgia had &#8220;executed a person who may well be innocent.&#8221; (In the same sense that I &#8220;may well be&#8221; an astronaut named Smitty.)</p>
<p>The New York Times editorialized about &#8220;A Grievous Wrong&#8221; being done to Troy Davis, citing &#8220;reports about police misconduct, the recantation of testimony by a string of eyewitnesses and reports from other witnesses that another person had confessed to the crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>In all criminal appeals, defense lawyers roll out claims of &#8220;police misconduct,&#8221; preposterously unbelievable &#8220;new&#8221; witnesses and a surprise &#8220;confession&#8221; by someone else.</p>
<p>In fact, that&#8217;s a single typewriter key at the Times, used for all reports on criminal convictions. I have my own typewriter key to describe Times&#8217; editorials on executions: &#8220;reports about extreme self-righteousness, excessive moral preening, obliviousness to the facts, and lies from a string of journalists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Always check to see if the person suddenly confessing to a crime will face any penalty for doing so. You will find that surprise confessions invariably come from those already serving the maximum sentence or that the statute of limitations has run.</p>
<p>(The Times editorial didn&#8217;t mention the police officer murdered by Davis. A few days later, an article on the execution did mention the victim in the fifth paragraph &#8212; and then spelled his name wrong.)</p>
<p>Those of you who follow my work assiduously know that Davis shot and killed an off-duty cop, Mark MacPhail, in a busy Burger King parking lot in front of dozens of witnesses, including people who knew him, as well as a van full of Air Force airmen. (He didn&#8217;t recant.)</p>
<p>After shooting the cop once, Davis sauntered up to the cop&#8217;s body and shot him again, directly in the head. As one of the airmen told the jury in identifying Davis: &#8220;You don&#8217;t forget someone that stands over and shoots someone.&#8221;</p>
<p>The much-ballyhooed &#8220;recantations&#8221; in Davis&#8217; case were typical, which is to say: nothing of the sort. Years after the trial, defense lawyers trick witnesses into making small, inconsequential alterations to their testimony. Then the lawyers rush to the press claiming the witness has &#8220;recanted.&#8221;</p>
<p>For example, Davis&#8217; lawyer prepared an affidavit for the girlfriend of the homeless man Davis was beating when MacPhail intervened and got shot. The affidavit was consistent with her trial testimony in all respects &#8212; including identifying Davis as the killer &#8212; except that the lawyer altered her description of events to say that Davis had been &#8220;arguing&#8221; with her boyfriend before shooting the cop.</p>
<p>The girlfriend would have had no way to know &#8212; years later &#8212; that this was any different from her original trial testimony. She signed the lawyer-drafted affidavit, but didn&#8217;t consider it important enough to get notarized. Then she died.</p>
<p>Out of 34 witnesses for the prosecution, that was one of the five purported &#8220;recantations.&#8221; Normal people hear that and say, &#8220;ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THAT&#8217;S WHAT YOU&#8217;RE CALLING A &#8216;RECANTATION&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>One begins to see why the criminal lobby has turned to statistics, rather than specific cases, to claim that America executes the innocent.</p>
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