Posted on 12/21/2011 8:31:11 AM PST by Nachum
Jewish Journal Reports: Israeli officials are stepping up their criticism of The New York Times, slamming columnist Thomas Friedman and arguing that the newspaper is an unfit venue for an Op-Ed from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a scathing letter first leaked last week to The Jerusalem Post, Ron Dermer, a top aide to Netanyahu, declined an invitation for the prime minister to write an Op-Ed for the Times. By way of explanation, Dermer cited what he alleged was the newspaper’s anti-Israel tilt.
“It would seem as if the surest way to get an Op-Ed published in The New York Times these days, no matter how obscure the writer or the viewpoint, is to attack Israel,” he said.
Dermer’s letter came just days after Friedman, a frequent critic of Israeli settlement policies, asserted that U.S. congressional support for Netanyahu was “bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”
Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), a top congressional appropriator, joined a chorus of commentators in decrying Friedman’s allegation. And Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, said Friedman had “strengthened a dangerous myth.”
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Sic ‘em.
NUM 24:9
The copy of the letter I saw to the NYTimes told them very “respectfully” to go pound sand up their know what.
Since a head of state told this newspaper to go eff themselves because of their rabid anti-Israel stance, would that qualify as a Dinosaur Media Deathwatch ping?
By Netanyahu declining the invitation to write an op-ed piece that is a big blow to the “prestige” of that rag.
What did that idiot Thomas “I wish we had a dictatorship” Friedman write this time?
Mark
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