{"id":151713,"date":"2015-05-17T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=151713"},"modified":"2015-05-17T17:31:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T17:31:22","slug":"new-york-times-endorses-israeli-mass-slaughtering-palestinians-refusing-condemn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/new-york-times-endorses-israeli-mass-slaughtering-palestinians-refusing-condemn\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Endorses Israeli Mass Slaughtering Palestinians by Refusing to Condemn It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; The Times supports Israel&#8217;s worst crimes &#8211; wrongfully blaming them on victims. It outrageously calls Hamas a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Palestine&#8217;s legitimate government &#8211; democratically elected in January 2006. Claiming it wants Israel destroyed is false.<\/p>\n<p>It long ago expressed willingness to sacrifice 78% of historic Palestine in return for remaining land within June 1967 borders &#8211; with East Jerusalem its exclusive capital.<\/p>\n<p>It justifiably wants control over its borders, air space, offshore waters and resources. It wants diaspora Palestinians able to return.<\/p>\n<p>It wants peace, stability, mutual cooperation with all nations and fundamental international law enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The Times fails to hold Israel accountable for horrific high crimes against peace. It considers its naked aggression self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Institutionalized racism worse than apartheid South Africa&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t matter. Nor other forms of vicious police state persecution.<\/p>\n<p>A previous article discussed Israel&#8217;s new coalition government. It combines hate-mongering racists, neocon fascists and religious fundamentalist zealots.<\/p>\n<p>MK Ayelet Shaked is new justice minister. Palestinians are assured none with her in charge &#8211; more racist persecution than already.<\/p>\n<p>During Israel&#8217;s summer 2014 cold, calculated, premeditated aggression on Gaza, she openly called for genocidal slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>She declared &#8220;the entire Palestinian people\u2026the enemy, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian mothers give birth to &#8220;little snakes,&#8221; she blustered. Genocidal war is morally right, she believes.<\/p>\n<p>She wants Palestinians entirely exterminated. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/16\/world\/middleeast\/ayelet-shaked-israels-new-justice-minister-shrugs-off-critics-in-her-path.html?_r=1\">New York Times Jerusalem correspondent Jodi Rudoren <\/a>interviewed her &#8211; downplaying her extremism, failing to condemn her racist hatred.<\/p>\n<p>She quoted her saying &#8220;(t)hey say that I&#8217;m very calculated and not very sensitive\u2026&#8221; She doesn&#8217;t want &#8220;emotions\u2026disturb(ing) her work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She wants &#8220;Jewish identity&#8221; strengthened\u2026&#8221;to have a democratic, Jewish, strong state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rudoren calls her &#8220;disciplined, a doer\u2026pragmatic\u2026a quick study\u2026&#8221; She quotes TV host Oded Ben-Ami saying &#8220;(t)here is a very clear order in the things she is talking about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a vicious, hate-mongering genocide supporter Rudoren dismissively says once danced ballet, was &#8220;active in the Scouts and excelled at math.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a former Golani Brigade instructor. Rudoren ignored its ruthless history. It was founded in 1948 to help ethnically cleanse Palestine during Israel&#8217;s so-called War of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Sharon was one of its first commanders. In 1953, he established the infamous Unit 101. It included lawless cutthroats responsible for numerous massacres. Golani is a ruthless killing machine to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Its sordid history includes mass murder, rape, torture and other high crimes. It specializes in terrorizes defenseless civilians. Its ranks include the most criminal elements in Israeli society.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified soldier once said they include &#8220;psychopaths, the poor, orphans, Israelis who live in small towns, immigrants, illiterates, people with mental problems, drug and alcohol abusers, and people with criminal records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shaked fit right in. In 2006, she began working for Netanyahu. She later supported Naftali Bennett, radicalized like herself.<\/p>\n<p>Rudoren waited until deep into her article before discussing Shaked&#8217;s call for mass murder &#8211; giving it short shrift instead of outright condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>She was dismissive quoting Shaked saying &#8220;I&#8217;m doing a lot of mistakes, like every human being.&#8221; Endorsing genocide can&#8217;t be dismissed as a simple mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Shaked said nothing about her plans in office. For sure it includes persecuting Palestinians viciously &#8211; denying them fundamental rights everyone deserves.<\/p>\n<p>Rudoren didn&#8217;t explain. She follows longstanding Times tradition, especially for Jerusalem correspondents &#8211; one-sidedly supporting Israel&#8217;s worst crimes, blaming Palestinians for defending themselves against its ruthlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/p>\n<p>His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/p>\n<p>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/p>\n<p>It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Lendman (RINF) &#8211; The Times supports Israel&#8217;s worst crimes &#8211; wrongfully blaming them on victims. It outrageously calls Hamas a terrorist organization. It&#8217;s Palestine&#8217;s legitimate government &#8211; democratically elected in January 2006. Claiming it wants Israel destroyed is false. It long ago expressed willingness to sacrifice 78% of historic Palestine in return for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}