Tali and Yitzhak Ames with five of their children
Posted on 09/02/2010 6:02:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tales From The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post
Four young civilians — human beings, fathers, mothers, one of whom was also pregnant, collectively the parents of seven children — were brutally gunned down by armed, masked terrorists. Their murders were openly celebrated in the streets by their attackers and by thousands of their supporters.
You would think that the world would recoil in horror — or that those who report the news, worldwide, would do so. Think again. These four precious souls were Israeli “settlers” and, as such, have already been so demonized that they are now seen as having provoked their bloody, pitiless deaths.
First, they came for the settlers. Then, they came for the secular Israeli pro-peace demonstrators in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Tel Aviv. And then they came for ….you and me.
Predictably, sadly, my three local area New York City newspapers present this tragic news in very different ways.
Tali and Yitzhak Ames with five of their children
Kochava Even-Chaim
Avishai Schindler
Allow me to first quote from the Bible of the intelligentsia, aka the New York Times, which presents this incident on page 4, not on page 1; the early pages are usually reserved for all incidents in which Israelis fight back so that Israeli “evil” is seen immediately and framed as among the most “important” world news of the day. The accompanying Times headline? Unbelievably, it is this: “Killing of 4 Israeli Settlers on the Eve of Peace Talks Rattles Leaders on Both Sides.” It’s really not clear who killed the “settlers.” What is clear is that “both sides” are “rattled.” The piece opens with a paragraph that made me see red, both literally and metaphorically. It reads as follows:
“The killing of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank on Tuesday evening rattled Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of peace talks in Washington and underscored the disruptive role that the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the already fragile negotiations.”
Note: This opening paragraph literally blames the past and future peace failures on the Israeli settlements. The Times neither blames nor characterizes Hamas accurately. It does not say the Arab Muslim terrorist group, Hamas — the Palestinian version of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, probably also backed by Iran and Hezbollah, and the group which is claiming responsibility for the attack — is also responsible for a deadly civil war with the not-so-moderate President Abbas; an Islamist war on Palestinian women, homosexuals, and dissidents; and a jihadic war against the Jews, which began a long time ago and which will never stop until either such terrorist leaders and their propaganda are utterly vanquished militarily or until the Jews have been driven out of the Holy Land once again.
On the contrary. The piece also positions President Mahmud Abbas as the “good” guy who, like his negotiating partner, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has “condemned” the attacks. Yes — even as Abbas is busy honoring the Palestinian terrorist who planned the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games, Amin Al-Hindi, as well as the Palestinian terrorist Omar Muhammad Ziyada, who murdered an Israeli civilian in a human bomb homicide in 2002.
The Gray Lady does not even tell us the names of the Israeli civilian victims, nor are they in any way humanized. Their histories are not presented. They are only “particularly militant settlers”: faceless, shadowy figures. We are not supposed to care about them. We do learn what Hamas said about the attack, namely that it was a “natural response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its settlers.” We also learn that “hundreds” of Hamas supporters “took to the streets … to celebrate the news of the attack.”
Shame on you, Isabel Kershner and Mark Landler (who share this byline of infamy), and shame on your editors.
As usual, the Wall Street Journal does better. Their headline reads: “Hamas Attacks Israelis on Eve of Talks.” At least they tell us who the perpetrators are and who their victims are. According to Charles Levinson, “multiple gunmen” were involved; the “victims” included “two men, ages, 25 and 40, and two women, also ages 25 and 40, one of whom was visibly nine-months pregnant, according to Israeli officials.”
Why do Kershner and Landler consider such facts irrelevant to their piece? Are these facts too hard to find — or are these facts too dangerous because they would begin to humanize the Jewish, “settler” victims?
However, the august WSJ does not name the victims either. For that, I had to turn to the New York Post, which places the terrorist act on its cover with a picture of a fully head-and-face masked Palestinian gunman. The title? “Peace, Hamas Style: Terrorist fiends kill 4 Israelis on the eve of DC talks.” Their reporter, Andy Soltis, begins this way:
“Hamas terrorists yesterday murdered four innocent Israelis, one of them pregnant, in a twisted attempt to derail President Obama’s peace summit in Washington … the soulless thugs sprayed a car on the West Bank with dozens of bullets, leaving behind a gruesome scene on a blood-stained road.”
The Israeli media is filled with the facts which humanize this terrorist act but here, in my home town, I can only find such facts in the New York Post.
The victims were Yitzhak and Tali Imes, who had six children, including a year-and-a-half old infant; and Kochava Even-Haim and Avishai Schindler. One of the members of the Israeli rapid response medical team discovered that his own wife (!) Kochava was one of the victims. Kochava was a “married schoolteacher” who struggled for many years to have a child and finally succeeded. She leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter.
The victims' funeral on September 1, 2010 (Reuters)
The Post also tells us that the terrorists may have videotaped the assault, that Hamas claimed responsibility for this “heroic” operation, and that Hamas also “launched a sickening celebration that drew 3,000 people in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.”
I am purposely remaining silent about the “politics” involved.
My point here is simply this: If American journalists, professors, scholars, and teachers read and trust only the New York Times, they will continue to view “militant Israeli settlers” as more blameworthy than Islamist Palestinian terrorists. This view is confirmed by articles, editorials, and op-eds which appear in their pages almost daily, often two or three in each issue. In edition after edition, this point is made over and over again.
Worse: Those who read the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are viewed as rabid, right-wing conservatives, racists, “Islamophobes,” non-intellectuals, anti-progressives, anti-feminists, etc., and their views, and the views of the WSJ and the NYP, are easily dismissed — demonized — just as the “militant settlers” have been.
If I want to profile the recent and powerful conference on global anti-Semitism at Yale, in which I participated, if I cannot do so in the New York Times, or better yet, in the Times of London, academics will not take a word I write seriously. They will not even bother to read my words.
Quo vadis, my friends?
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I know I’m seeing red after pondering this article.
When do our hearts stop breaking and the heads of the perpetrators start breaking.
IMHO our current occupant in the White House has blood on his hands.
That said, it’s time for Israel to JUST SAY NO...
No more concessions
No more turning the other cheek.
NO MORE NO MORE NO MORE innocent deaths.
Back to the top.
See, took down the barrier just last week( State Dept and Obama ordered) and this week dead innocent Jews. Obama has so much blood on his hands for being so stupid. This is sickening, SICKENING because that barrier was proactive and now what?
The One thinks that Jewish life is cheap as long as he gets another Nobel Prize
Every president bar noneas far back as the early 20th century anyway has thought the same about Jews, or had funky people on their staff( ala Kissinger, Weinberger, Dulles, Forrestal etc ad nauseam that contuned being the enemy of israel. Everytime I hear Obama speak Reverunt( only G!D is reverand(argh sp?))Wright’s hate the Jews words echoing like a demonic ventriliquist through Ozero.
Welcome to Weimar-on-the-Potomac.
when the SHTF Day comes guess who will get blamed along with the evil rich, the bosses and tea party members...It wont be pretty...
This is tragic. What I do not understand is why the vast majority of Jews support a liberals who believe that by appeasing evil they will have peace. The Jewish community had better wake up before their appeaser friends explain to them why it is their duty to step into the gas chamber; so the rest of the world can be at peace with Islam.
the same that lets good Catholic support anti-life politicians, who then claim to be "good catholics,
the same that makes conservatives hold their nose then vote and fund Rinos, all because the rino can "win" in the general election... we got ourselves in a heap of trouble team..
All we are saying
Is give piece a chance...
this tool literally never ran a gas station, Taco Bell or Kool-aid stand but yet no one got to question him on that.
His records from his high school transcripts to his mothers passport have been conveniently lost, hidden or suppressed, but he supposed to be something fresh and new
HE has always been a community organizer, which in my time meant rabble-rouser, communist thug or dope smoking maggot infested hippie. Since he is under 50 we can skip the hippy part, of course.
I am not a "birther" but all these items smack more of conspiracy rather than coincidence...As a fellow traveler, with terrorists, revolutionaries and rebels, his attitudes towards life, especially Jewish life should not surprise anyone...He will be judged on that also..
A very easy way to get a pass for these things is to PLAY at being naive or stupid. IMHO oBummer is neither and this is a very carefully played out plan in order to strategically weaken our sole ally in the middle-east and thereby start the long anticipated war against Israel.
I think you'll see a drop in support for Obama as you did for Carter, but unless it's based on issues other than Israel, it won't necessarily last. The Democrat party isn't anti Israel, they're simply pro appeasement, whether it's Israel or the US. Younger voters particularly, Jewish or not, I think they're more concerned about economic issues, that's where the focus should be.
I suggest you spend some time lurking at DU when the subject is the Gaza Flotilla. The thinly veiled anti-semitism permeates the conversation, and the number of deleted messages is unusually high. The Palestinians are always portrayed as the victims, and the Israeli military as soulless killers of innocent women and children.
I personally think he's book smart, shrewd and devious but way over his head. He's read all the seceret documents, probably leaked a few, has hatred written all over his face and been in Wright's church for way too long for him to change his stripes. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe he is "common sense" smart but I just don't see him or have heard much common sense come from him. Then again he's the kind of kid I would have loved to have slgged in High School, heh but I didn't fight, just a pipe dream. I'd rather believe( probably somewhat true, and all the alphabet soup companies have all their own agendas so whatever he's reading and then acting on looks bassackward, as to you and so many it's planned) the people around him are making him dance but it doesn't matter whether you or i are right in this, the damage is done, is being done daily and in rapid fire succesion so much so that it is indeed becoming so biblically "prophetic" that I wake up, turn on the TV and wonder what happened overnight that just blew up, who was killed, what country did what; argh how to explain?
Maybe this analogy, for years and years there's been no time limit really on the chess board of international( and national) dealings. Presently, events are moving so rapidly in a vortex of entropy one cannot even see the color of the chess pieces as our world and our country is sucked into the demonic fingers of a huge tornado with a foundation of years and years of dirty dealings. Best I can do.
No sense talking as to whether the guy is smart, more to the point would be what he is doing with his intelligence and why. This guy is either deeply disturbed or just plain rotten to the core. More to the point is how long does America have and can anyone but the true emerging false prophet make the dirty tornado "look" clean and all the chess pieces "seem" as if there will be more than 1260 days of peace sometime soon before the real "smart evil" guy takes over the whole game( NOT saying Obama is THAT smart)comes riding into a newly built Jewish Temple on a pig; hasn't been built yet; but it'll happen. I just can't see him being smart; devious, yes, full of crap, yes, book smart, yes, but what he is doing is not even shrowding his moves anymore; everyone in the world can see him for who he is, it's now up to dummies like me and a lot of the rest of us to try and figure how to stop it,or maybe repair a little shred here and there or if it is indeed harpazo time.
Allow me to first quote from the Bible of the intelligentsia, aka the New York Times, which presents this incident on page 4, not on page 1... "Killing of 4 Israeli Settlers on the Eve of Peace Talks Rattles Leaders on Both Sides."
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