{"id":65768,"date":"2015-11-02T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=65768"},"modified":"2015-11-02T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T12:39:00","slug":"new-york-times-ignores-root-cause-of-violence-in-palestine-dismisses-israeli-state-terror-against-an-entire-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/11\/new-york-times-ignores-root-cause-of-violence-in-palestine-dismisses-israeli-state-terror-against-an-entire-population\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Ignores Root Cause of Violence in Palestine. Dismisses Israeli State Terror against an Entire Population"},"content":{"rendered":"

29 Oct 2015 – Honest observers know longstanding Israeli occupation harshness is the root cause of current violence \u2013 instigated by Israel, responded to courageously by Palestinians, largely youths and children, putting their lives on the line for freedom, deserving universal support in their struggle against pure evil.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not according to Times Jerusalem correspondent Jodi Rudoren<\/a>, discussing what she calls \u201cdueling narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

One honest one alone exists. Times correspondents, columnists, contributors and editors don\u2019t explain it \u2013 one-sidedly supporting outrageous Israeli claims, Big Lies, calling Palestinians knife-wielding terrorists, ignoring their longstanding persecution at the hands of a ruthless occupier.<\/p>\n

Rudoren\u2019s attempt to portray ongoing violence in terms of two sides with opposing views fell flat \u2013 willfully suppressing hard truths, substituting disgraceful misinformation, giving credence to Israeli Big Lies.<\/p>\n

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Nowhere in her article, or any she writes, is an explanation of decades of oppressive occupation, Palestinians denied fundamental human and civil rights guaranteed under international law, Washington\u2019s full support for Israeli high crimes, both nations partnering in each other\u2019s viciousness.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t discuss longstanding Israeli military raids into Palestinian communities, mostly pre-dawn, homes broken into violently, ransacked, families terrorized, children traumatized, arrests made for political reasons only.<\/p>\n

Nor Palestinian land stolen, their homes bulldozed for wanting to live free or no reason at all \u2013 to facilitate exclusive Jewish development, no Arabs allowed, not on Occupied Palestinian land Israel wants or in its own Jews-only communities.<\/p>\n

Mass arrests, detentions, and grueling interrogations amounting to torture and other forms of abuse aren\u2019t discussed \u2013 nor an entire population collectively punished for not being Jews.<\/p>\n

Israel is a belligerent, racist, apartheid state worse than South Africa \u2013 doing to Arabs what Hitler did to Jews. Nothing on Times pages explains it, instead one-sided support for Israeli high crimes, calling them self-defense.<\/p>\n

Children and youths armed with stones, their bare hands and immense courage, threatening one of the world\u2019s most powerful military forces? The self-styled newspaper of record is a lying machine \u2013 on the wrong side of virtually every issue that matters, supporting might over right.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s war on Palestinians rages \u2013 Tuesday into Wednesday another five Palestinians murdered in cold blood, the toll now at least 66, certain to rise from seriously wounded victims likely to die, plus more fatalities from continued daily carnage.<\/p>\n

The story Times and other media ignore is raging Israeli state terror against an entire Palestinian population \u2013 including dozens murdered, hundreds kidnapped, either disappeared or imprisoned, thousands injured, and millions terrified about what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

On October 28, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) representative Hanne Sorine Sorensen commented on how \u201clife will never be the same for children wounded during\u201d Israel\u2019s 2014 summer aggression on Gaza.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll never again live normal lives \u2013 crippled, wheelchair-bound, copying with shattered bodies, traumatized by Israeli ruthlessness.<\/p>\n

The same scenario is now playing out throughout Occupied Palestine \u2013 short of tanks, artillery and F-16s so far involved, maybe coming, Israel holding nothing back to brutalize an entire population, unrestrained in its ruthlessness.<\/p>\n

Palestinians are dying daily, many others seriously wounded. A handful of Israelis died \u2013 for Western officials and media scoundrels the only ones that matter.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Lendman<\/em> lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>. His new book as editor and contributor is titled <\/em>Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III. http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a>\u00a0 Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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29 Oct 2015 – Honest observers know longstanding Israeli occupation harshness is the root cause of current violence \u2013 instigated by Israel, responded to courageously by Palestinians, largely youths and children. Not according to Times Jerusalem correspondent Jodi Rudoren, discussing what she calls \u201cdueling narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}