Buildings Went Up
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A Times dispatch from Jerusalem reports: Over the last decade, scores of cheap apartment buildings, many a dozen stories high, have sprung up in several Palestinian neighborhoods like Ras Khamis, lying just within the Jerusalem city limits but isolated by the barrier that Israel has built along or through parts of the West Bank with the stated purpose of keeping out suicide bombers. The buildings went up without planning permission, safety regulations or proper infrastructure.
The use of the language that the buildings "sprung up" or "went up" oddly omits the question of who built them. Arabs? Jews? The article doesn't say who the unscrupulous slumlords are, and it's almost as if the reporter is bending over backwards not to find out.
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SodaStream
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A Tweeter points out that a Times news article about the Israeli company SodaStream and the actress Scarlett Johansson reports, "The dispute over the ad, scheduled to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday, has pitted pro-Palestinian activists against people and groups who support Israel unreservedly."
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Palestinian Anonymouse
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At the conclusion of today's installment of the Times' thousand-part series on the evils of Israel's settlement policies in the West Bank comes this passage: The latest Israeli settlement plans were "a stab in the back for everyone who has worked to have negotiations," said a Palestinian official involved in the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It legitimizes the fears everybody had that the negotiations are just a smoke screen."
This looks to me like a violation of the Times policy on the use of confidential sources, which states:
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Always the Inequality
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A dispatch from Jerusalem in today's New York Times reports: "Although Israel's economy is regarded as relatively strong and stable, having weathered the global economic downturn, the growth of recent years has directly benefited a small percentage of the population, living costs are high — perhaps because of a lack of competition, experts say — and the gap between the rich and the poor has been increasing."
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Buildings Went Up
smartertimes.com
A Times dispatch from Jerusalem reports: Over the last decade, scores of cheap apartment buildings, many a dozen stories high, have sprung up in several Palestinian neighborhoods like Ras Khamis, lying just within the Jerusalem city limits but isolated by the barrier that Israel has built along or through parts of the West Bank with the stated purpose of keeping out suicide bombers. The buildings went up without planning permission, safety regulations or proper infrastructure.
The use of the language that the buildings "sprung up" or "went up" oddly omits the question of who built them. Arabs? Jews? The article doesn't say who the unscrupulous slumlords are, and it's almost as if the reporter is bending over backwards not to find out.
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SodaStream
smartertimes.com
A Tweeter points out that a Times news article about the Israeli company SodaStream and the actress Scarlett Johansson reports, "The dispute over the ad, scheduled to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday, has pitted pro-Palestinian activists against people and groups who support Israel unreservedly."
Read More...
Palestinian Anonymouse
smartertimes.com
At the conclusion of today's installment of the Times' thousand-part series on the evils of Israel's settlement policies in the West Bank comes this passage: The latest Israeli settlement plans were "a stab in the back for everyone who has worked to have negotiations," said a Palestinian official involved in the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It legitimizes the fears everybody had that the negotiations are just a smoke screen."
This looks to me like a violation of the Times policy on the use of confidential sources, which states:
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Always the Inequality
smartertimes.com
A dispatch from Jerusalem in today's New York Times reports: "Although Israel's economy is regarded as relatively strong and stable, having weathered the global economic downturn, the growth of recent years has directly benefited a small percentage of the population, living costs are high — perhaps because of a lack of competition, experts say — and the gap between the rich and the poor has been increasing."
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New York Times Draws Anti-Israel Lesson From Palestinian Attack
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What does a terror attack against Israel teach us? According to the New York Times, it's that Israel is being disruptive. In its recent coverage of two deadly attacks against Israelis, the newspaper demonstrated an especially flagrant abandonment of journalistic standards, spinning coverage so as to deflect culpability for the violence away from the perpetrators.
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The New York Times and Itamar
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The murder of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar prompted familiar circumlocutions and evasions by The New York Times where the killing of Jews is concerned. Rather than call it a terrorist attack— the family was said to have been killed by intruders.
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