By 449 QUENTIN on 2/15/07
On Tuesday February 13, 2007 I held my nose and bought the New York Times. I am politically allergic to the newspaper and it’s left wing, anti American, anti Israel, anti western cultural bias. Usually I can last a good two or three weeks before I break down and buy a copy. But after flipping through the New York Post and seeing more of Brittany Spears thighs than I cared to and tiring of the minute details of Anna Nicole’s low rent departure from this earthly realm, I broke down and bought the hated commie rag.
Page one was uneventful and I was beginning to relax. Page two was a walk in the park with nary a word about the astro loon or her diaper clad journey to find love and happiness in the American heartland. It was page three that seized my heart with a grip of steel that would not let go.
There it was, a photo in living subliminal black and white. Seven Israeli soldiers armed to the teeth and one inoffensive Palestinian lad, (sans bomb belt). The tyke was right out of central casting. He radiated a wholesome decency, which was odd since most of the locals give their kids hand grenades when they graduate kindergarten.
Hollywood you see views the Palestinian people from afar. There are no burned out buses smoldering along Rodeo Drive. Out In Malibu Barbara Streisand is not wailing over the body of her child and Steven Spielberg is not picking shrapnel out of what is left of his mortally wounded wife. There is a direct correlation between distance and the ability to overlook atrocities committed by terrorists.
The Palestinian boy on page three of Pinch Sulzberger’s newspaper is cringing as he rides his bicycle past the heavily armed Israeli’s. His posture and demeanor cry out at the injustice of an innocent youth having to cope with this barbarity as he cycles off to work for world peace and to feed the hungry. The lad is a veritable Mother Teresa on wheels. One can almost see the Leper‘s embracing him as he rides in bringing the lord’s word, after running the Israeli gauntlet.
This picture is worth the proverbial thousand words. Israeli’s bad, Palestinian’s good. Simplistic enough so that even the folks in Los Angeles can get it. In fairness though the Times should give us another photograph showing the progress of say and Israeli boy riding his bicycle through a Hezbollah neighborhood in say Lebanon. Which of the boys would you wager completes his little journey? The Palestinian lamb may have cringed but not a hair on his head was touched. This is called acting in a civil manner as opposed to being barbaric.
The article went on to inform us that riots were breaking out in Jerusalem’s old city because the Arabs were upset that there was construction going on at a walkway to the holy site that the Jews call the Temple Mount and the Arabs call the Noble Sanctuary. Arabs do not debate in a genteel manner like the faculty at Princeton, they riot. When a riot occurs most governments tend to call out the police. The Article does not mention that during the time the Arabs controlled the holy sites they did not allow the Jews to visit the area. However since the 1967 war when the Jews won control of the area they have allowed the Arabs access and respect.
The Times is a noble and prestigious newspaper, run by people that are busy doing wonderful things for those of us that they consider to be intellectually challenged. They all own American Express Platinum cards and they know how to use them. They dine in the finest restaurant’s to keep their strength up. After all there is a world out there to be brainwashed. When you live in that kind of rarified atmosphere you do not have the time or the need for the truth.
