A recent editorial in the New York Times stands out even amid the paper’s usual Israel-bashing. Not only do the editors repeat the canard that Israel is building new settlements and thereby limiting the size of a prospective Palestinian state, they also, writes Elliott Abrams, display classically flawed moral reasoning:
Note the way the Times refers to the recent Gaza war: it seems that “violence will keep recurring.” How nasty of Violence to do that. The Times does not consider that Hamas deliberately started this conflict, and by burying this sentence in an editorial censuring Israel makes it clear that Israel is really to blame. This is ludicrous, considering the barrages of rockets and missiles and mortars Hamas shot into Israel, but it is of a piece with the Times’ general view: Israel is the problem.
Read more on Pressure Points: http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2014/10/15/the-new-york-times-and-israel-again/