Casualty Count: 794 Palestinians, 7 Israelis—NY Times Obsesses on Israeli Victims

Richard Edmondson:
October 12, 2015

All the news that’s not fit to print–that by definition would be anything critical of Israel. Apparently being Jewish and having a son serving in the Israeli Army is a requirement of all New York Times reporters covering Israel.

Originally posted on TimesWarp:

Isabel Kershner in The New York Times tells us that Palestinians are running amok, lashing out at Israelis not only in the West Bank but now in Israel as well. Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to quell this “wave of terrorism,” she reports, and Israelis are “unnerved” by the spread of incidents.

Kershner describes three alleged stabbing attempts, dwelling at length on one of them; recaps an earlier incident that left two Israelis dead; and in the final paragraphs of her story informs us that “at least two” Palestinians were killed, one of them a 13-year-old boy “described as a bystander.”

Nowhere do we learn that the major victims of violence in this turbulent conflict are Palestinians, not Israelis, as revealed in a recent United Nations report: In one week, ending Oct. 5, Israeli security forces injured 794 Palestinians, while Palestinians injured a total of seven Israelis. (As of…

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