By Jonathan S. Tobin
www.jns.org
The contrast was glaring. One week after The New York Times put a horrifying yet completely misleading picture of a Palestinian Arab child on its front page to illustrate a story that lent weight to the false claim that Israel was deliberately starving people in the Gaza Strip, it had an opportunity to put an equally awful photo in the same spot. Hamas released a video depicting two of the remaining Israeli hostages they are still holding and who look as if they are actually starving, in addition to other mistreatment at the hands of their kidnappers.
But the Times chose not to highlight this atrocity on their front page, though it was front-page news in Israel as well as in the New York Post, one of the few pro-Israel daily newspapers in the United States. While it was shown in a Times piece about the emaciated men that was published online, that story was not considered significant enough to warrant inclusion in the print edition of the paper. Nor did it mention that the video showed one of the Israelis being forced to dig what was said to be his own grave. It also cited such criminal abuse of hostages solely as part of an argument claiming that most Israelis believe that their plight was somehow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fault, rather than that of Hamas.
The treatment of these two images is not an isolated example.
It not only demonstrates the editorial judgement that the Times employs when covering the conflict, but it is typical of most legacy print, broadcast and cable outlets in the United States and throughout the West. Such bias shows their determination to mimic Hamas talking points and to trash Israel and its government, even when the story’s main focus is the atrocious behavior of the Palestinians…
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