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Channel 10 news editor admits he celebrated beating of Jews in 'Palestinian' village

The editor of one of Channel 10's most popular news magazines admits in an op-ed in Maariv that he celebrated the beatings of Jewish youth in the 'Palestinian' village of Kusra.

The degree to which Israel's mainstream media openly identifies with leftist politics was displayed Wednesday morning in an opinion piece by Dror Zaresky, the editor of Channel 10 television's London and Kirshenbaum, a daily news interview show.

The article in Maariv-NRG, where Zaresky is a frequent contributor, is devoted to Zaresky's confession that he was happy to see young Jews badly beaten by Arab villagers at Kusra, in Samaria, last week.

"The reports in the media and around some of the water coolers,” he wrote, “ran the gamut from just-the-facts to awarding a prize for courage to the Palestinian residents of the village near Shechem who settled a long debt with the youths of the right wing specifically, and with Israel the occupier in general.”

"I will admit the truth: I, too, had to fight the smile that spread on my face when I heard the reports from the village,” Zaresky added. “When I first heard about the 'price tag' action gone bad in the wadis of Samaria, I could not hide my smile. Unlike many of my friends in the media, I do not see these actions as disastrous for the country; proportionality was abandoned long ago, in the way we report these incidents of graffiti and flat tires. And yet, there is no doubt in my mind that the right wing criminals are trying to disrupt the lives of many Palestinians – and on the way, they may just succeed in setting fir to our calm neighborhood in the Middle East.”

Zaresky went on to compare the event to a group of thugs from an organized crime gang who come to collect protection money from shop owners, somewhere in the desert – and instead are ambushed by their victims, who beat them up. “I imagine that you get my point. The schadenfreude toward those who came to hurt is natural and understandable and has nothing to do with political views of one kind or another,” he opined, adding that he “understands” people who say it is wrong to take the law into one's own hands, but wishes to “confer a blessing” on those who “teach criminals a lesson” regardless.

As I have reported previously, the teenagers and young adults involved in the incident were not trying to carry out a 'price tag' attack.

At least Channel 10 isn't being paid by the government to be Leftist. Still Zaresky ought to be fired.

Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Israel's suicidal Left, Israeli media bias, liberal media bias, media bias, Palestinian terrorism, price tag attacks

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:04 AM