Anti-Americanism Dangerously Misunderstood
While Israel is Still Expected to do all the Heavy Lifting

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 4, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/230/anti-americanism-dangerously-misunderstood

Excerpt:

Why-oh-why does the mainstream media keep tacking on "The Israeli-Palestinian crisis" where it does not belong? This has become a mindless mantra meant to inflame not inform people and more important, meant to affirm the "goodness" and "fairness" of the journalists who espouse precisely such rank propaganda.

Today, the New York Times included the above phrase in their editorial titled "Selling America." The editors believe that they know how to–and how not to–"sell" America. In their view, President Bush's "waging preventive war in Iraq, redefining torture, repudiating the Geneva Conventions, establishing illegal detention camps, and refusing to grapple with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis" has created "new enemies every minute" and has "soured allies."

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