(BLOG) It’s About`Time” For An Apology To Israel

"I have long been a defender of the general media to pro-Israel supporters who believe the press – from the New York Times to the television networks – is biased against Israel. But I’m having a harder time of it these days.

I have tried, over the years, to suggest that our community tends to be less than objective in our assessment of Mideast coverage, that we engage too much in conspiracy theories about media motives when it comes to Israel, and that critics should consider that most Americans consistently favor Israel – even though they get their foreign policy news from the same media said to be anti-Jerusalem.

But a report in the New York Times last week on the terrorist raid that killed four Israeli civilians was disturbing in that its lead paragraph framed the attack as proof of the contentiousness of the Jewish settlements for the renewed peace talks. What about the murderous acts of Palestinian terrorists as an obstacle to peace?"