Yousef Munayyer
Maybe all the criticism of the
New York Times's coverage of Israel's massacres in Gaza is having an impact. Today's
news analysis, by David Halbfinger, is strikingly more balanced than the paper's previous reports. The article gives four paragraphs to Yousef Munayyer, who directs the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, who points out, accurately, that:
This is not a battle that protesters are coming to with guns. They're coming to it with their bodies and they're confronting very real policies of violent repression. The protesters paid with their lives to get people to question whether these policies are justifiable.
In this article, the
Times also stopped being the stenographer for the Israeli army. It notes that of the 20 Gazans killed by Israeli soldiers on March 30, the first day of the protests,
"Videos showed that some were shot as they had their backs turned to the fence."
Halbfinger also counters the Israeli contention that the Gazan demonstrators
plan to invade en masse. He noted that this past Friday, April 6, although ". . . many protesters threw stones or rolled burning tires toward the fence,
far more could be seen doing little more than standing around - chanting, singing and shouting."
The analysis does quote a retired Israeli general warning darkly that the barrier fence is "not as strong and robust as people might think." But then Halbfinger immediately adds his own rejoinder:
Israel's soldiers are still "aiming rifles at unarmed people."
Comment: Neither Weinstein nor Zuckerberg are honest enough to be examples to follow. Decades of MSM propaganda funded by the war-mongering financial elite, left-leaning educational system, instant gratification of social media technologies created an infantile and dumb society that is not prepared for the realities of the life. See also: