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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-873515
New York Times Lies about Israel Spreading among U.S. Jews
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - On a recent American lecture tour I found that most Jews - and Americans - remain with Israel. Still, many echo the stinging Israel critique pushed by the New York Times and their most radical kids or peers. I kept encountering these questions and misconceptions: "The war was too brutal." Wars are brutal. Urban warfare, with terrorists hiding behind civilians, is even harsher. But the critics fail to offer realistic alternatives for an Israel threatened with Iran's seven-front ring of fire. Israel's formidable legal infrastructure assesses the morality of targets repeatedly, risking our soldiers' lives by warning Gazans of impending strikes or aborting missions to save civilians. "Why didn't Israel free the Palestinian 'Mandela,' Marwan Barghouti?" What an insult to Mandela's nonviolence! Marwan Barghouti headed the armed Tanzim. Accused of 30 murders, judges convicted him of five, including the murder of Greek Orthodox monk Father Georgios Tsibouktzakis. The Palestinian national movement remains pathologically addicted to antisemitism, Israel-exterminationism, and terrorism - because Western dupes keep validating their violence. The writer, a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University, is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute.