(CAMERA) Gilead Ini - Since May 10, as Israeli civilians were under attack by Hamas rockets and Jews around the world were being harassed and assaulted, the New York Times opinion editors published 9 anti-Israel Guest Essays, 3 evenhanded Guest Essays, and not a single Guest Essay that was primarily critical of Hamas or Palestinian behavior in the conflict. Beyond trying to steer people toward the Palestinian narrative, Times opinion editors are guilty of curating a lack of empathy for Israeli Jews. Even as Israeli families were traumatized by emergency runs to bomb shelters as Hamas strove to kill them, their experiences and emotions were largely missing from the Opinion pages. Readers got to know to Gaza resident Refaat Alareer, his wife Nusayba, and their children, 6-year-old Amal and 8-year-old Lina. They were intimately introduced to Laila Al-Arian's grandfather, Abdul Kareem, and her grandmother, Inaam. They were told of Diana Buttu's 82-year-old father and her 7-year-old son. Israelis, on the other hand, had no ages and no faces. No brothers or sisters. No Holocaust-surviving grandparents. Nameless victims, but mostly oppressors, attackers, shooters, racists - and generally heartless. Readers of the country's most influential paper learn that Hamas rockets are "legitimate" and that Israel's efforts to stop that rocket fire aren't really an effort to stop the attacks, but rather to arbitrarily oppress Palestinians.
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