NY Times: Just Sit Back And Enjoy Its Nonsensical Reporting

The NY Times, Wed, July 16, ran the following piece on Page A6, "Gazans, Wanting Deep Change, Are Ambivalent on Egypt's Truce Plan."

Enjoy these exhibits of reporting by the NY Times:

" . . . . when Israel resumed airstrikes after a six-hour pause on Tuesday . . . ."  No mention of why airstrikes were resumed.  Could it be that Hamas took the initiative in resuming hostilities by firing more of its rockets?  For the NY Times, that's not relevant.

"Every time, they have a cease-fire, but then everything comes back: the siege, the closures," (a Gazan grandmother) is quoted as saying.  "Then they bomb again."

Who wants to press a kindly old grandmother for answers that everyone, other than this grandmother, seems aware of.  Namely, the resumption of rocket fire by Hamas.  The siege, the closures are instituted by the Israelis to keep Gaza free of the rockets supplied by Iran or other parties friendly to Hamas.

If the NY Times wants to replicate the Jay-Walk style of interviewing when  it speaks to people hostile to Israel, that's their business.  But, is this the best way of catering to the interests of their elite readers?

"Short, but devastating wars deepen the misery," reports the writer, Anne Barnard.  Okay, but who exactly is it that begins these wars?

"(Hamas) demands that Israel release prisoners, and, along with Egypt, lift border restrictions that have gutted a weak economy," reports the writer.

Terrorist organizations, which is what Hamas is, order suicide bombings of Israeli citizens.  When Israel manages to catch the perpetrators, it imprisons them.  The sentences are based on the culpability of the terrorist.  (Did the terrorist plant the bomb, or did he simply drive the bomber to where the bomb was to be set off.)  Why in the world should Israel release these criminals?

The restrictions on Gazans are unquestionably onerous.  But why are the restrictions put in place in the first place?  Maybe the Egyptians aren't happy to have Hamas offer aid and comfort to the Muslim Brotherhood.  Maybe the Israelis are puzzled as to why Hamas would expect Israel to act any differently towards them when the the Hamas constitution calls for its citizens to wipe out Israel and Israelis.  Do you think?

"Who would want to be bombed ?" asks a Gazan doctor.  Well, what about Hamas.  Hamas knows that they can't vanquish Israel militarily.  So, why fire rockets at the Israelis?  Is it possible that they would hope that the UN and their European supporters would issue edicts that would hobble Israel's efforts to protect itself?  Then too, it brings Hamas leaders bushels of money from sympathetic donors.  As it once enriched Arafat, and then Abbas, it now enriches the Hamas leadership.  This as their citizens suffer.  

"We have a right to defend ourselves against occupation," one Gazan is quoted as saying.

Really?  What occupation?  Ending the Israeli blockade is the simplest thing in the world.   Just end the Hamas campaign to destroy Israel.  Work cooperatively with the Israelis for the betterment of both peoples.  But, that's not really possible, is it?  Not while the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel and Israelis.

If the NY Times wishes to act as propaganda sheet for terrorist organizations, not a million letters to the editor will change anything.  So, just sit back and enjoy the show.