In a brilliant article published earlier this year, the Jerusalem writer P. David Hornik carefully examined the opinion writing in Haaretz over a one?week period. He demonstrated and gave proof to what many people in Israel intuitively knew, that Haaretz is a radically biased extreme left?wing, often anti-Israel, newspaper.
Yet another example of this, more infuriating than most, was given in the February 27 edition of the paper. One of the worst Israel-bashers, Yoel Marcus, condemned the Israeli Foreign Office and the terror victims' families who demonstrated outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the Palestinian demand to halt the building of the security fence. The proceedings in The Hague are, by their very existence, discriminatory and prejudicial against Israel. This does not concern Marcus. Nor does the evil of the suicide-bomber people in indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians. These are the kind of realities the fifth-columnists always choose to ignore.
Instead, what worries Marcus is that the Israelis, in demonstrating, show themselves to be "pathetic" when, in fact, Israel is the "strongest state in the Middle East." What one thing has to do with another is, of course, one side of the absurdity of Marcus' remark. But there is something else even more important. He has no sympathy for the Israeli families. He doesn't understand that they emotionally need to be there to cry out their pain and outrage at these inhumane murderers of their loved ones. He demonstrates in spades the real sin of the radical left in Israel - that they really do not care for the injuries, the hurt, the suffering of their own people.
Any one of the terror victims murdered this past month in Jerusalem is, in my opinion, worth more than the whole Palestinian army of immortal terrorists taken together (including Israeli Knesset members, Tibi, Barakeh and Bishara; ah, the hypocrisy of it all). I would remind Marcus that more than eighty percent of the Palestinian Arabs support suicide-bombings. The wonderful, humane Palestinians were again passing out sweets last week, as they do whenever Jews are murdered.
Marcus, of course, had praise for the Palestinians because they presented their case on the basis of what he regards as realistic parameters: the 'occupation', the inconvenience of roadblocks, the expropriation of land. He does not consider the possibility that the people of Israel might have some legitimate claim to the land of Israel. He also does not understand that Palestinian Arab cry-babying has succeeded in creating the greatest wave of anti-Semitism in the post-war era; and that those Israeli demonstrators were there to counter it. He also neglects to mention that demonstrating with the Palestinians were European anti-Semites, neo-Nazi skinheads and the same people who at Durban, when Israelis did not demonstrate, won a great propaganda victory. He also does not seem to understand what any three?year old by this time understands - that the Palestinian aim is to destroy Israel and that the opposition to the security- fence is their opposition to something that will make this more difficult for them.
What Marcus wrote was both insensitive and hypercritical of Israel. It perfectly fits the line Amos Schocken has dictated through the years, condemning Israel for being, in his words, "an apartheid state". It is a line that the new Haaretz editor David Landau has promised to continue.
Woe to the people whose "most important paper" is run by those who show more sympathy for enemies than they do for their own people.
Yet another example of this, more infuriating than most, was given in the February 27 edition of the paper. One of the worst Israel-bashers, Yoel Marcus, condemned the Israeli Foreign Office and the terror victims' families who demonstrated outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the Palestinian demand to halt the building of the security fence. The proceedings in The Hague are, by their very existence, discriminatory and prejudicial against Israel. This does not concern Marcus. Nor does the evil of the suicide-bomber people in indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians. These are the kind of realities the fifth-columnists always choose to ignore.
Instead, what worries Marcus is that the Israelis, in demonstrating, show themselves to be "pathetic" when, in fact, Israel is the "strongest state in the Middle East." What one thing has to do with another is, of course, one side of the absurdity of Marcus' remark. But there is something else even more important. He has no sympathy for the Israeli families. He doesn't understand that they emotionally need to be there to cry out their pain and outrage at these inhumane murderers of their loved ones. He demonstrates in spades the real sin of the radical left in Israel - that they really do not care for the injuries, the hurt, the suffering of their own people.
Any one of the terror victims murdered this past month in Jerusalem is, in my opinion, worth more than the whole Palestinian army of immortal terrorists taken together (including Israeli Knesset members, Tibi, Barakeh and Bishara; ah, the hypocrisy of it all). I would remind Marcus that more than eighty percent of the Palestinian Arabs support suicide-bombings. The wonderful, humane Palestinians were again passing out sweets last week, as they do whenever Jews are murdered.
Marcus, of course, had praise for the Palestinians because they presented their case on the basis of what he regards as realistic parameters: the 'occupation', the inconvenience of roadblocks, the expropriation of land. He does not consider the possibility that the people of Israel might have some legitimate claim to the land of Israel. He also does not understand that Palestinian Arab cry-babying has succeeded in creating the greatest wave of anti-Semitism in the post-war era; and that those Israeli demonstrators were there to counter it. He also neglects to mention that demonstrating with the Palestinians were European anti-Semites, neo-Nazi skinheads and the same people who at Durban, when Israelis did not demonstrate, won a great propaganda victory. He also does not seem to understand what any three?year old by this time understands - that the Palestinian aim is to destroy Israel and that the opposition to the security- fence is their opposition to something that will make this more difficult for them.
What Marcus wrote was both insensitive and hypercritical of Israel. It perfectly fits the line Amos Schocken has dictated through the years, condemning Israel for being, in his words, "an apartheid state". It is a line that the new Haaretz editor David Landau has promised to continue.
Woe to the people whose "most important paper" is run by those who show more sympathy for enemies than they do for their own people.