WALL STREET JOURNAL SAVAGES NEW YORK TIMES OVER GADHAFI OP-ED
January 25th 2009 08:50
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAVAGELY ATTACKS THE NEW YORK TIMES OVER ITS COLONEL GADHAFI OP-ED ON ‘ISRATINE’
The Wall Street Journal has run an interesting attack on the New York Times, with a sub had which reads, “Why did the Libyan Jews cross the road--and why won't the New York Times tell its readers?”
The Journal’s James Taranto writes, “The New York Times op-ed page has an interesting new contributor today: Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's dictator. Gadhafi, whose name the Times spells Qaddafi styles himself Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Arab Libyan Popular and Socialist Jamahiriya,’ but the Times’ author bio blandly says, ‘Muammar Qaddafi is the leader of Libya.’
“Gadhafi's subject is the territory formerly known as Palestine, now divided between the nation of Israel and the disputed territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which were occupied by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, after the Arabs rejected a UN resolution calling for Jewish and Arab states in Palestine, and which came under Israeli occupation after the Six Day War in 1967.
“The common view is that the ultimate resolution of this conflict is the ‘two-state solution,’ in which Israel would cede all or most of the disputed territories to a new Arab state called Palestine.
“…Anyway, Gadhafi rejects the two-state solution in favour of a one-state one, an 'Isratine’ that would allow the people in each party to feel that they live in all of the disputed land and they are not deprived of any one part of it."
“Gadhafi writes: ‘Assimilation is already a fact of life in Israel. There are more than one million Muslim Arabs in Israel; they possess Israeli nationality and take part in political life with the Jews, forming political parties. On the other side, there are Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli factories depend on Palestinian labour, and goods and services are exchanged. This successful assimilation can be a model for Isratine.’”
The Journal publishes more of Gadhafi’s writing, and then vigorously refutes his arguments.
The Journal article dramatically concluded, “At the time of Colonel Qaddafi's coup in 1969, some 500 Jews remained in Libya. Qaddafi subsequently confiscated all Jewish property and cancelled all debts owed to Jews. By 1974 there were no more than 20 Jews, and it is believed that the Jewish presence has passed out of existence.
In fairness to Gadhafi, he did not begin the persecution of Libyan Jews. But isn’t there some rule of journalistic ethic that could have compelled the Times to disclose to its readers that its author is the man who, in his own country, finished what Hitler started?”
The Wall Street Journal has run an interesting attack on the New York Times, with a sub had which reads, “Why did the Libyan Jews cross the road--and why won't the New York Times tell its readers?”
The Journal’s James Taranto writes, “The New York Times op-ed page has an interesting new contributor today: Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's dictator. Gadhafi, whose name the Times spells Qaddafi styles himself Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Arab Libyan Popular and Socialist Jamahiriya,’ but the Times’ author bio blandly says, ‘Muammar Qaddafi is the leader of Libya.’
“The common view is that the ultimate resolution of this conflict is the ‘two-state solution,’ in which Israel would cede all or most of the disputed territories to a new Arab state called Palestine.
“…Anyway, Gadhafi rejects the two-state solution in favour of a one-state one, an 'Isratine’ that would allow the people in each party to feel that they live in all of the disputed land and they are not deprived of any one part of it."
“Gadhafi writes: ‘Assimilation is already a fact of life in Israel. There are more than one million Muslim Arabs in Israel; they possess Israeli nationality and take part in political life with the Jews, forming political parties. On the other side, there are Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli factories depend on Palestinian labour, and goods and services are exchanged. This successful assimilation can be a model for Isratine.’”
The Journal article dramatically concluded, “At the time of Colonel Qaddafi's coup in 1969, some 500 Jews remained in Libya. Qaddafi subsequently confiscated all Jewish property and cancelled all debts owed to Jews. By 1974 there were no more than 20 Jews, and it is believed that the Jewish presence has passed out of existence.
In fairness to Gadhafi, he did not begin the persecution of Libyan Jews. But isn’t there some rule of journalistic ethic that could have compelled the Times to disclose to its readers that its author is the man who, in his own country, finished what Hitler started?”
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