Just when I think that New York Times can't possibly sink any lower, they do.
Less than a week after publishing Ian Lustick's lurid fantasy in which a massive bloodbath is the precursor to the end of the world's only Jewish-majority state, the Times has printed what I suppose is its attempt to appear unbiased in the form of MK Danny Danon's Op-Ed titled "Israel Should Annul the Oslo Accords."
Danon is, of course, correct that, in hindsight, Oslo brought more bloodshed and not the peace it promised. Anyone familiar with the facts, however, knows that Danon's proposed course of action, i.e., that Egypt and Jordan should take control, respectively, of Gaza and the West Bank, is a non-starter, as those two countries have made it clear that they are not willing to regain sovereignty over the areas that they controlled prior to 1967.
What is astounding, however, is the vitriolic comments, almost all of which condemn Israel, especially with regard to Israel's settlement building in the West Bank. Granted I did not read all 246 of them, but I did not see any that mentioned Israel's demonstrated willingness to dismantle settlements, as it did in 2005 when it sent its 18- and 19-year old girls and boys, also knows as "soldiers," to remove its own citizens, by force, from their homes in Gaza. Or any that mentioned that, if Arafat had taken the 2000 offer that Danon mentions, or if Abbas had taken the 2008 offer, there would be no settlement construction going on in those areas today. Or any that mentioned that the steep decline in terrorist attacks in the past few years corresponds to Israel's building of the so-called "Aparthied Wall."
For a minute I wondered why the comments seemed so one-sided, but it did not take me long to see the reason. The piece was published on the second day of Sukkot, going in to Shabbat, times when most observant Jews do not use computers (or phones or ipads). Conveniently, the comments section was closed before Shabbat ended on the East Coast.
So, in an attempt to show how unbiased it is, the Times ran a nonsensical right-wing Op-Ed and posted it for its already brainwashed readers to read and respond to, right at a time when Jews would not be able to speak up.
