Comments on: The Economist chastises the NY Times for its Israel/Palestine coverage

By: om

om — Thu, 31 May 2018 14:40:50 +0000

About The Economist – Peterson interview

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/30/jordan-b-peterson-triggers-host-over-female-aggres/

By: om

om — Wed, 30 May 2018 14:14:11 +0000

Jordon Peterson had a long interview earlier this month with a senior editor of The Economist. She isn’t Cathy Newman, although tried to play the same game, but didn’t have Cathy’s good points either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QRQjrsFnR4&t=2476s

By: Frog

Frog — Wed, 30 May 2018 14:04:06 +0000

I am pleased to see The Economist recognized here as just another media Leftist shill. I ceased subscribing after two years, about 15 years ago, for this very reason. Not very much useful economics in The Economist. It is just another version of Time magazine, which I am glad to report from supermarket inspection is a very thin version of its former self.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 30 May 2018 09:34:40 +0000

That should be “nature reserves”….

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 30 May 2018 03:59:06 +0000

Wheat AND corn. And nature preserves.

It’s very dry down there and the prevailing winds are west-to-east.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 29 May 2018 23:35:05 +0000

Hundreds of 'Incendiary Kites' Have Assaulted Israel from Above Since Mid-April (VIDEO)

warms? Squadrons? The correct grouping designation is unclear, but what is clear is that hundreds of flaming kites have been flown over the fence into Israel in the last month causing millions in damage and endangering civilians. These kites, which have caused hundreds of fires, have been flown mainly under cover of ongoing "protests" in Gaza. Such protests have been cover for other violence in the last month, as previously noted in this space. Ynet reports that "the 'aerial terror offensive' against the Gaza border communities has continued with greater vigor, including some 300 incendiary kites flown into Israel's territory, 100 fires and more than 3,000 acres of wheat destroyed, causing millions of shekels worth of damage to the farmers of the area."

What journalist is going to confront Hamas about this? :)

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 29 May 2018 21:36:05 +0000

I read one reference to the Pali fence demonstrations being
“non-violent.” Yeah , right. “For the most part, non-violent?”

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:59:17 +0000

Here’s a hypothesis:

Israel as a collectivity and Israelis as individuals tend to be brash and speak with a frankness which can border on the brutal. The British chatterati is shot through with people who are weasely by nature when they’re not being snide and supercilious. They don’t like eachother, and one of them is right not to.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:56:48 +0000

Those who lie, slander and foment hate are not on the side of the angels. Some are wolves in sheep’s clothing, some are cowards seeking to appease those they fear. Some are fanatical ideologues who dismiss contrary facts as meaningless. Some justify the sacrifice of righteousness in the name of a rationalized “greater good”.

“Woe to those who call evil, good and good, evil…” the prophet Isaiah 5:20

“By their fruits shall ye know them” a then unknown* 1st century Jewish carpenter and itinerant preacher…

* in the ‘civilized’ world

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:33:28 +0000

“The article from the Economist about the weasel voice is actually an entire weasel article.”

Precisely.

And quoting Glenn Greenwald should have given the game away immediately; as if Greenwald was truly capable of anything unweasely, when it comes to Israel, at least.

And yes it works.

Curious, though, how the Economist is so concerned with language…as though picking up the mantle from Orwell.

Disgusting in every sense of the word.