More Times 'neutrality'
The New York Times 'balances' allegations of torture and mistreatment of Gilad Shalit and the 'Palestinian' terrorists exchanged for him yesterday, once again attempting to reach a moral equivalence. Each side accused the other of mistreating its prisoners. Sergeant Shalit, who was denied Red Cross visits throughout his imprisonment, was pushed into an uncomfortable interview on Egyptian television before being handed over to Israel, and Israelis watched his measured responses and labored breathing with fury.One look at the gaunt, pale Shalit, as compared with the robust-looking terrorists, should put the lie to that claim.
Hamas officials said their members had been subject in Israeli prisons to “torture, compulsion and revenge.”
For the record, Israel Television reported on Tuesday night that Shalit is suffering from a Vitamin D deficiency (one of the very few details about his health that was reported) as a result of lack of sunlight for the last five years and four months. The 'Palestinians' obviously got their hour per day to walk around the yard.
The Times' description of Amna Muna was also rather amusing: The first passenger off the plane was a middle-aged woman wearing a white coat, and 10 men followed her.Muna is 31 - hardly middle aged.
Labels: Amina Mona, moral equivalence, New York Times, terrorists for Gilad trade
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:21 PM
2 Comments:
Just outrageous!
What this government has done is to sin against G-d and the Jewish people.
Its not a sin that will be erased any time soon and those responsible for it will face their day of reckoning, which will come soon enough for them!
The NYT knows that all Palestinian prisoners are regularly visited and checked up on my the IRC and other groups. They can check the dates and information themselves.
So unless the NYT believes the anti Israel IRC is actually an Israeli front group I would have to say their claims are off base. Or they are crazy. Or stupid. The fact that Shalit was kidnapped and hidden and not allowed to be seen by the IRC goes to the heart of what kidnapping IS. No such twisted insane pseudo reality exists for Palestinian convicts in Israeli prisons.
If the NYT is really going to be a mouthpiece for Hamas, as they turned over their op-ed pages to Hamas just yesterday, they're going to have to be a little more polished and subtle. This kind of blunt antisemitic raving may work for the BBC, Guardian, Reuters and the Arab press but the NYT readership demands a higher level of brie-munching pro terrorist culpable deniability.
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