(Jerusalem Post) Melanie Phillips - The New York Times is entitled to criticize Israel as it would any other country. But it doesn't treat Israel like any other country. It singles it out for demonization based on falsehoods, distortion and selective reporting which makes no attempt at objectivity, fairness or truth. Last weekend, it published a 4,700-word story on the life and death of Rouzan al-Najjar, who was killed during the riots on the Gaza border last June. The story described the rioters as "protesters," obscuring their leaders' aim of storming the border to murder Israelis. Israelis were portrayed as trigger-happy killers whose snipers deliberately shot Gazan civilians in the back. Only towards the end did the story reveal that she was in fact killed accidentally. But they still dressed it up as a likely war crime. Yet they didn't suggest that Hamas was guilty of war crimes thousands of times by setting out to murder innocent Israelis. They skated over the missile attacks from Gaza, the terror tunnels, the fact that Israelis were forced to live in bomb shelters. Instead, the paper produced a radically slanted version to obscure the fact that Israel was defending itself against a genocidal onslaught, and wickedly depicted it instead as a criminal aggressor. The writer is a columnist for The Times (UK).
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