Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Monday, April 04, 2011

NYT refused to publish Goldstone retraction?

Not only did Judge Richard Goldstone's words of regret fail to match the global resonance of his original report, it now comes to light that one of the most important newspapers in the world refused to publish his retraction.

Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday that a source close to Goldstone stated that in the past few days the judge had approached the editor of the New York Times opinion pages requesting to post the article he wrote in the paper – and was told his article was rejected.

The editor gave no explanation as to why the article was rejected, but the source believes this was due to the newspaper's political agenda.

The letter was ultimately published in the more conservative Washington Post over the weekend.

This makes sense, as David G has noted via email.

Goldstone had written 3 op-eds in the New York Times in 2008 and 2009, and none in the Washington Post. It strains credulity to think that he did not first go to the NYT for this op-ed as well.

Which tells you what you need to know about the New York Times and Israel.

UPDATE: Politico says that the NYT version was different than the one submitted to the WaPo. (h/t Zach)

Two good Passover videos

From Aish.com, a social media Exodus:

And from The Fountainheads in Israel:

(h/t Menachem, Yerushalimey)

Muslim student defends Israel at UN!

Amran Hussain spoke at the UN on behalf of the European Union of Jewish Students. It is very impressive!

(h/t אורי פלג)

Elder posters hit the front page of Canada's largest Jewish weekly!

From The Jewish Tribune of Canada, the largest Jewish weekly in Canada, March 31 edition (not yet online):

A full page!

And they nicely gave me credit:

I'm kvelling!

(h/t Wigg for the heads up and photos)

Egyptian foreign minister warns that peace with Israel will get colder

Al Arabiya reports that Nabil el-Arabi, Egypt's foreign minister, said said that his country would not be a "strategic treasure to Israel, as they said it was at the time of President Mubarak," and Egypt will only abide by treaties and no more.

He said that Egypt has the right to force the Israeli side to adhere to some of the issues that they claim Israel has not strictly kept from Camp David, "such as the part that said that Israel is committed to peace with the countries that wish it, and it did not happen with Palestine."

The commenters were of the "hell yeah!" type, although one of them definitely gets into the Great Moments of Autotranslation Hall of Fame. Google translates his comment like this:

I am an Iraqi, me proud to be an Arab.... We are tired of waiting for the vagina to defeat the Jews who planted the differences and hatred between us .. When the disease became ill Egypt Sadat and Mubarak sick all the Arabs and Hovoa Wayne got .. Today, Egypt is recovering ..Recover all of the Arabs and, God willing, the vagina soon.

A few links

J-Street Defends the Indefensible

Honest Reporting on Goldstone's about-face

Eichmann wasn't just "following orders"

Why do Arabs want to be citizens of that hated Zionist entity? (Where we learn an interesting fact - a Hamas leader's nephew serves in the IDF!)

FresnoZionism looks at American rabbis who love Palestinian Arabs. (He also has some great, original cartoons.)

A reform rabbi's response to Peter Beinart's thesis about young liberal American Jews.

Getty Images catches an idyllic scene from Gaza.

Hamas terrorists were in "The Playground of Death"

Here is the English-language press release from Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades after the IDF killed three Hamas terrorists on Saturday:

As Al Aqsa Intifada against the occupation assault on the Gaza Strip continues, Ezzeddeen Al-Qassam Brigades has its best men to be in the playground of death to defend their people from any attack by the enemy ... Today, Al-Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahedeen:

Ismael Ali Lubbad [35 years]

Beach refugee camp – Gaza city

Abdullah Ali Lubbad [24 years]

Beach refugee camp – Gaza city

Mohammed Mahdi Ad-Daya [31 years]

As-Sabra neighborhood – Gaza city

The Zionist fighters assassinated the mujahedeen while they were driving their car in Khanyounis city. They were martyred after a long bright path of jihad, hard work, struggle and sacrifice.

Al Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahedeen, reaffirms the commitment and determination to continue the resistance against the belligerent occupation forces.

Finally, may Allah (swt) accept him and his blessed efforts for the path of Jihad and may Allah grant his family patience and solace for his lose.

"To God we belong and to him we shall return."

Predictable: Anti-semites now attack Goldstone

From the nutty-far-left Salem News:

Many of us knew something wasn't right with Richard Goldstone from the beginning. His seeming honesty was too good to be true.

He is the experienced former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, who investigated the extended attack on Gaza's civilian population in the winter of 2008 and 2009 that left more than 1400 dead, most of whom were civilian, known as 'Operation Cast Lead'.

Considering the bond that ultimately exists between Zionist Jews, the selection of Goldstone as the man to head an investigation of Israel's Gaza War Crimes was a little like having Newt Gingrich investigate Republican wrongdoing.

...And this leads to the ultimate point about Goldstone and that is that no Zionist Jew from a country that practices apartheid so recently, should have been allowed to head the investigation.

Palestinian Arabs call to boycott Facebook. On Facebook!

Al Jazeera reports that a group of Palestinian Arabs, angry over Facebook taking down the "third intifada" page, are calling for everyone to boycott Facebook on April 15th.

And where are they organizing this campaign? Why, on Facebook, of course!

Western darling ElBaradei says he'd go to war if Israel attacks Gaza

Egypt's Masrawy and other Arabic media outlets are quoting Egyptian presidential hopeful Mohammed ElBaradei as saying that Egypt may go to war if Israel attacks Gaza.

He is quoted as saying that if he becomes President, in the event of any future attack on Gaza he would discuss ways to implement the joint Arab defense agreement, for all Arab atates to respond "in the face of Israeli aggression."

ElBaradei is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

He also is revealed in a new Wikileaks document as saying that if he becomes president he would restore Egyptian relations with Tehran that were severed after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Ma'an again quotes bogus "activists" in Hebron

On Friday, Ma'an wrote:

Israeli settlers burned a store in the center of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, activists said.

Protesters assembling ahead of a demonstration said settler tossed flammable materials that burned a storefront on Shalala Street.

Palestinian firefighters put out the blaze that caused damage to the stores and prevented it from spreading, onlookers said.

This sounded fishy to me, as Israelis are simply not allowed in most of Hebron. So I asked someone who lives in the area whether this was possible, and he responded:

It's an area behind Beit Hadassah where we have no access at all. I gave David Wilder a call to double check since it's up by him. He said no chance.

How many times must we document that anti-Israel "activists" lie before the media starts to show some skepticism on their wild and unfounded claims?

And when will Ma'an actually do some real reporting and verify facts instead of mindlessly repeating any anti-Israel drivel anyone claims? It is not hard to reach out to Jews living in Hebron.