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What’s the point of their comment anyway?
It’s all well and good to follow standard journalistic practices and let both sides have their say—but then it would only be appropriate to actually do that as a matter of course, which is unfortunately not the case at all in the NYT’s coverage of Israel’s crimes, because, objectively speaking, there can be no doubt whatsoever that Israel is committing genocide and is guilty of the most egregious crimes against humanity. An article like this is the absolute exception in U.S. reporting.
To believe that Israeli officials would have anything to contribute on this matter other than the usual lies and threats is pure mockery. You could might as well ask Donald Trump about Epstein...
This is just an opinion piece, though Kristof does have a history of doing pretty solid reporting for his opinion pieces. He’s the one who exposed all the illegal and exploitative shit on mainstream porn sites years ago, which led to a serious overhaul of content. So opinion pieces can still matter, though they’re usually not meant to have this big an impact.
All that to say opinion pieces are not subject to the same journalistic rigor as a standard article, though proper NYtimes journalism leaves a lot to be desired, especially when discussing the genocide in Palestine.
Unfortunately, one sees such articles far too rarely in Western media.
Usually, all the atrocities are glossed over in order to somehow give the impression that Israel is a civilized state—even though the ICC has had arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and some of his cronies for ages, and UN bodies have determined that Israel is committing genocide long ago.
All this is still possible solely because the U.S. shields Israel from international condemnation, with many other Western countries aiding and abetting this—including Germany, where I’m from; especially given our history, I am ashamed of our unscrupulous politicians.
This also explains why these unspeakable crimes are not being adequately reported, why they are portrayed as a military conflict when they are, in fact, a barbaric slaughter of defenseless people.
The only positive thing I can see in this coverage is that the atrocity is so obvious that this article even made it into the NYT. That is certainly to the author’s credit, and the concessions he had to make in order for it to be published at all are completely understandable.
I just bought a copy of How to Sell a Genocide, which talks about western media's complicity in the atrocities, you may be interested. It goes hard on the NYT.
Thanks for the tip—I'll check it out.