N.Y. Times the paper of broken records
N.Y. Times "alternate universe" update:
Their editorial advising Likud to keep Sharon includes this paragraph:
Make no mistake: Ariel Sharon is no peacenik. It was Mr. Sharon, as defense minister, who orchestrated the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which cost more than 17,000 lives, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese. It was Mr. Sharon who - in posts like minister of trade and industry, minister of housing, and minister of national infrastructure in various Likud governments - expanded and fortified Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, building roads, negotiating water rights and defending clearly illegal settlements. And Mr. Sharon was again the defense minister when Israeli soldiers stood by and did nothing as Christian Phalangists raided the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, killing hundreds of civilians.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31wed2.html
After handing over Gaza and parts of the West Bank, how does the Time's (diminishing relevant) editorial writers define "Peacenik"? - Hugging Hamas? Sharon has proven he's moved far beyond all the history the Times chronicles which makes it hardly relevant.
For Israel and the Right, you can never do enough to satisfy a Leftist philosophy.
Their editorial advising Likud to keep Sharon includes this paragraph:
Make no mistake: Ariel Sharon is no peacenik. It was Mr. Sharon, as defense minister, who orchestrated the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which cost more than 17,000 lives, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese. It was Mr. Sharon who - in posts like minister of trade and industry, minister of housing, and minister of national infrastructure in various Likud governments - expanded and fortified Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, building roads, negotiating water rights and defending clearly illegal settlements. And Mr. Sharon was again the defense minister when Israeli soldiers stood by and did nothing as Christian Phalangists raided the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, killing hundreds of civilians.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31wed2.html
After handing over Gaza and parts of the West Bank, how does the Time's (diminishing relevant) editorial writers define "Peacenik"? - Hugging Hamas? Sharon has proven he's moved far beyond all the history the Times chronicles which makes it hardly relevant.
For Israel and the Right, you can never do enough to satisfy a Leftist philosophy.
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