NYT Missing The Facts On Checkpoint Shooting
Reading the New York Times on a shooting of some Israeli settlers by a Palestinian policeman in the West Bank city of Nablus, which is under Palestinian Authority control, one can not find any good reason for the incident:
The shooting occurred outside Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus after three carloads of religious Israeli Jews visited the site to pray, without coordinating their plans through the Israeli Army. Twice-monthly trips to the tomb have been organized with army escorts for the past four years without incident.
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The Palestinian governor of Nablus, Jibril al-Bakri, told Israel Radio that the shooting was a result of lack of coordination between the worshipers and the Israeli Army. He said that Palestinian police officers who were on a regular patrol shot a warning into the air before firing at the cars. He stressed that the shooting was a mistake.
So was this a 'mistake' and just a policman on patrol gone crazy?
Of course not. But the Zionist NYT author Ethan Bronner, who's son is in the Israeli army and who lives in stolen former Palestinian house in Jerusalem, will not let you know that. Here is how Haaretz reported the incident:
Israelis shot in West Bank tried to break through Palestinian roadblock, probe showsPalestinian security forces opened fire early Sunday on three cars full of Israelis who entered the West Bank compound of Joseph's Tomb without permission and then tried to break through a local checkpoint, according to an initial investigation by the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinian Authority.
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A senior Israel Defense Forces termed the incident "a serious mishap caused by both sides." The army is refraining from referring to the shooting as a terror attack, but has called it an unjustified attack against civilians.
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Haaretz was not the only media reporting on the checkpoint. Here is the first Ynet News piece on the incident:
Initial details suggest that while driving back from prayers, around 6 am, they came across a flash checkpoint and then came under fire shot at them from a Palestinian jeep. The fire continued even after the vehicles began to escape. Two of the three Israeli cars sustained gunfire damage.
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Initial IDF investigation suggests the group may have failed to coordinate their arrival at the Tomb with the necessity authorities and may have been shot by Palestinian security forces.
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Since the end of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Joseph's Tomb has been under Palestinian control. The IDF allows organized groups to visit the premises at night, under heavy guard.
Three suspicious cars full of men breaking through a checkpoint from an area where they were not supposed to be at all is certainly a justifying reason for the policeman guarding the checkpoint to open fire. Israel soldiers certainly do such when they are suspicious about some Palestinian movement.
But the New York Times will not let you know that the checkpoint even existed, that the policeman was guarding it and that the Israelis tried to break through it. Bronner does not mention any of that at all.
The same NYT is now trying to get money from its online readers. What for? For reading fact free Zionist propaganda?
Posted by b on April 25, 2011 at 6:28 UTC | Permalink
the ynet article i read was titled 'Worshippers visit Joseph's Tomb every night'.so apparently they blow off the military order for permission and go there all the time.
This could be true and it's good to hear the other side of a story, but it is unverified and that source has a motivation to lie. Contrast this with b's original two articles which contained the information contrary to the biases and motivations of the sources. For all we know, this group of Israelis could have been terrorists, not worshippers.
Posted by: Tom | Apr 25 2011 17:40 utc | 2
my point was not whether they were worshipers or not. my point was that sneaking into area ay night is not an isolated event.
Almost every night, Jewish worshippers sneak into Palestinian territory, where Joseph's Tomb is located, without obtaining a permit.
furthermore i am not competing with anything b has written. if you choose to regard it as biased propaganda be my guest.
Posted by: annie | Apr 25 2011 18:20 utc | 3
ps, if you think ethan bonner of the nyt is contrary to the biases and motivations you either have rocks for brains or are completely uninformed. his bias is well documented and his son is in the idf.
Posted by: annie | Apr 25 2011 18:24 utc | 4
b, can we cross post this @ mondoweiss. full attribution and link of course?
Posted by: annie | Apr 25 2011 19:27 utc | 5
my point was not whether they were worshipers or not. my point was that sneaking into area ay night is not an isolated event.
Again, that "fact" came from a biased source. The people making those claims are the same people who vocally blame their government for not fully supporting their desire to place a religious claim on property. Those people hate the fact that the Israeli government is not as Zionist as they are.
ps, if you think ethan bonner of the nyt is contrary to the biases and motivations you either have rocks for brains or are completely uninformed. his bias is well documented and his son is in the idf.
I don't expect anyone here (least of all our moderator) to call you out for this unprovoked personal attack mingled with complete nonsense.
I did not say or imply that Bronner was b's source of info (you'd have to have rocks in your head to think I was saying that). Bronner was b's object of ridicule. His sources of info were Haaretz and Ynet are Zionist publications and they gave us info that made the Zionist entity look bad. Rarely will you see a biased source give false info making their friends look bad.
I'm obsessed with facts and reality. I'm not going to let shoddy research slide just because it conforms with my prejudices and neither should you.
Posted by: Tom | Apr 25 2011 20:08 utc | 9
Tom, the point of b's post was that the NYT reader is "protected" from disturbing details accessible in other parts of the world
Posted by: claudio | Apr 25 2011 20:39 utc | 10
The NYT printing Zionist lies? The NYT of Max Frankel, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Abe Rosenthal and William Safire?
Posted by: buford | Apr 26 2011 3:04 utc | 11
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thanks for writing about this b. i was reading about this earlier today but completely missed the NYT coverage.
the ynet article i read was titled 'Worshippers visit Joseph's Tomb every night'.
so apparently they blow off the military order for permission and go there all the time. they just throw a fit when the response is exactly what palestinians have to put up with.
Posted by: annie | Apr 25 2011 17:05 utc | 1