NYT Not Even Trying to Pretend to Be Objective Any More
This is the kind of soppy, sentimental hackjob you rarely find outside of college newspapers that assign activists to cover their own protests:
Israeli Apache helicopters were hovering overhead, firing heavy machine guns down toward Palestinian militants nearby, and Mahmoud Abu Eid could only talk about his son, Izzedine, 4 years old. "He sleeps holding onto my arm, hanging onto me," Mr. Eid said. "How did he sleep last night?" Mr. Eid got up and mimed. "Hanging on to my shoulder. I couldn't sleep at all." Izzedine is frightened, Mr. Eid said, frightened of the gunfire, the sonic booms in the darkness without electricity, the buzzing of the surveillance drones overhead. "Normally he's very peaceful," said Mr. Eid, 30, a primary school English teacher who grew up in this southern Gaza area of farms and open fields. "I know psychologically he's very upset, and it's making us all upset. As an adult, we don't cry for our lives, but how can you see a child screaming and shaking?" Mr. Eid stopped and smiled shyly, running a hand over his short-cropped beard.
Apparently he has no trouble sleeping through the boom of rockets taking off toward Israeli schoolhouses, but the "buzzing of surveillance drones" keeps him awake all night. Indeed, his insomnia seems strictly limited to Israeli self-defense measures. Psychologically, it makes them all "very upset". At least he has the sympathy of the New York Times.
UPDATE: Wow! We didn't even see this part in the middle of the article:
"I don't think the Israelis know where he is," Mr. Eid said, then grew angry. "Will the sonic booms find the soldier? It's something crazy and cheap." Then he apologized again. "It's my passion speaking," he said, but "everyone is very anxious, and I fear for my son. Resistance comes from the womb of suffering."... He thought for a moment, then said: "It's not that we want to fight. It's because they are killing us and we need to defend ourselves and we are helpless."
Ladies and gentlemen, there you have it - Palestinian resistance comes from the suffering that the Israelis inflict on them. That Israel wasn't actually in Gaza when this new round of "resisting" started in the form of attacks on Israeli army bases and rockets at Israeli schoolhouses is beside the point according to the gentle, shy, sympathetic Mr. Eid. Just remember what the New York Times wants you to know: Palestinian resistance (read: vicious terrorism) only happens because of all of the suffering that Israel puts them through.
Israeli Apache helicopters were hovering overhead, firing heavy machine guns down toward Palestinian militants nearby, and Mahmoud Abu Eid could only talk about his son, Izzedine, 4 years old. "He sleeps holding onto my arm, hanging onto me," Mr. Eid said. "How did he sleep last night?" Mr. Eid got up and mimed. "Hanging on to my shoulder. I couldn't sleep at all." Izzedine is frightened, Mr. Eid said, frightened of the gunfire, the sonic booms in the darkness without electricity, the buzzing of the surveillance drones overhead. "Normally he's very peaceful," said Mr. Eid, 30, a primary school English teacher who grew up in this southern Gaza area of farms and open fields. "I know psychologically he's very upset, and it's making us all upset. As an adult, we don't cry for our lives, but how can you see a child screaming and shaking?" Mr. Eid stopped and smiled shyly, running a hand over his short-cropped beard.
Apparently he has no trouble sleeping through the boom of rockets taking off toward Israeli schoolhouses, but the "buzzing of surveillance drones" keeps him awake all night. Indeed, his insomnia seems strictly limited to Israeli self-defense measures. Psychologically, it makes them all "very upset". At least he has the sympathy of the New York Times.
UPDATE: Wow! We didn't even see this part in the middle of the article:
"I don't think the Israelis know where he is," Mr. Eid said, then grew angry. "Will the sonic booms find the soldier? It's something crazy and cheap." Then he apologized again. "It's my passion speaking," he said, but "everyone is very anxious, and I fear for my son. Resistance comes from the womb of suffering."... He thought for a moment, then said: "It's not that we want to fight. It's because they are killing us and we need to defend ourselves and we are helpless."
Ladies and gentlemen, there you have it - Palestinian resistance comes from the suffering that the Israelis inflict on them. That Israel wasn't actually in Gaza when this new round of "resisting" started in the form of attacks on Israeli army bases and rockets at Israeli schoolhouses is beside the point according to the gentle, shy, sympathetic Mr. Eid. Just remember what the New York Times wants you to know: Palestinian resistance (read: vicious terrorism) only happens because of all of the suffering that Israel puts them through.
