New York Times to Israel: Let Terrorists Be

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This is typical of the enemedia: relentless anti-Israel propaganda, no matter how fact-free. No one should read the New York Times expecting to find actual news, and the only people who still do are leftist lemmings.

“New York Times to Israel: Let Terrorists Be,” by Daniel Pomerantz, Honest Reporting, March 28, 2017:

In his New York Times Op-Ed, the discredited, fringe Israeli columnist Larry Derfner (more on his dubious career below) argues that the only reason terrorists attack Israel is because Israel defends itself from them, and won’t, “simply let them be.”

Think about that for a moment.

In one example of his characteristic, twisted reasoning Derfner claims:

Hezbollah and Syria are well and truly deterred, and if Israel were to simply let them be, they would have to be crazy to strike first….But if Israel keeps rubbing their noses in their weakness…national honor at some point will compel them to hit back with force. The “inevitable” next war will begin.

Even the terrorists disagree

Larry Derfner

Mainstream Israeli society roundly disagrees with Derfner, yet even more tellingly, so do the terrorists themselves.

Hamas and Hezbollah, the main focus of Derfner’s column, are designated as terror organizations by nearly all of the Western world, including the United States and the European Union.

Both Hamas and Hezbollah proclaim that one of their primary reasons for even existing is the total annihilation of Israel within any borders. Hamas adds to its platform the additional goal of murdering all Jews in the world.

This isn’t just idle talk: both organizations back up these goals by working tirelessly to acquire (and frequently to use) enormous arsenals of highly destructive weapons: such as major shipments from Iran to Hamas in Gaza, and the numerous convoys from Iran to Hezbollah via Syria, to which Derfner himself refers in his column.

Derfner misstates objective factsDerfner attempts to support his nonsensical argument with a number of “facts” that are simply untrue. For example, he states that Syrians and Hezbollah are “not attacking Israel” and “don’t dare bomb…Israeli military figures,” even though they sometimes do exactly that, in one case killing two Israeli soldiers.

 

An utterly discredited journalist

With his “Alice in Wonderland” style logic, and tendency to utterly misstate objective facts, Derfner managed to destroy his own career as a mainstream journalist in Israel. His final crash came in 2011 when Derfner defended a Palestinian terror attack as “justified,” saying that Palestinians had the “right” to carry out such attacks.

This event proved the “nail in the coffin” of Derfner’s reputation as a mainstream Israeli journalist. In firing Derfner from his position at the mainstream newspaper, the Jerusalem Post’s then editor-in-chief Steve Linde explained that the wayward columnist had crossed the line into “hate speech.” Though Derfner later penned a partial apology for his statements, Linde responded that:

He used ludicrous logic to defend his position, repeating the same obscene sentiments that made many readers sick to their stomachs in the first place.

Derfner has since been relegated to writing for left leaning, non-mainstream venues such as the Haaretz newspaper, (which accounts for only 3.9% of Israel’s newspaper readership), the agenda driven advocacy web site +972 (which is read by about 0.1% of Israel’s population), and his own blog.

Why is this in the New York Times?

All of which begs the question: why did the New York Times print Derfner’s column at all, or at least without proper context?…

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Victor Passenheim

7 years ago

I wonder how Larry Derfner would feel about other people “happening” on him. I mean, I’m certain he wouldn’t object, so let it rip folks!

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Ebayer

7 years ago

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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Fromafar

7 years ago

This guy can be summed up with the classic:
USEFUL IDIOT.

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enubus

7 years ago

I think part of his angst is he is terribly ugly and that drives hatred. I am sure that he has no mirrors in his apt, because they are all broken. With that said tongue-in-cheek, this hominid should be institutionalized along with the NYT.

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Daddyo

7 years ago

The Jerusalem Post, for which Derfner wrote weekly articles for several years, finally sacked him 2 years ago, due to the large outcry over the increasingly blatant seditious content of his writings. This is saying something, as the JPost has steadily moved to the left over the last half decade, taking stances on several issues that are indistinguishable from those of its extreme left wing Israeli rivals YNet and Ha Aretz. For those who wish to read English language versions of Israeli dailies that have sensible writing, I can only recommend Arutz Sheva and Israel HaYom, as the rest are the Israeli versions of the NY Times, the Guardian, etc., i.e., demented lefty rags, all.

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IzlamIsTyranny

7 years ago

Reply to  Daddyo

It’s amazing these leftists can lie about the vile, violent, Jew hating nature of islum even in Israel — considering Israel has suffered non-stop islamic terrorism for the past 70 years (just like India, but that’s another story).

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bannedquran20

7 years ago

Another Dodo Bird..a descendant of haman. LOL!!

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marlene

7 years ago

The NYT doesn’t deserve our attention, or our money. Neither does the FAKEstream media.

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Simba

7 years ago

Proves once again that Liberalism is a mental illness.

What is being expressed by these blokes is the essence of Islam.Submission.Bow to us or we will kill you.

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Mal M

7 years ago

I envy the US media and politicians about foreign affairs reactions. I’d like to see what will be the response of shooting a missile over N.Y. or LA.

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Ed Heavner

7 years ago

every group in the west has it lefty, even Israel.

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Scorpio

7 years ago

I’ve always wondered how intelligent people can hate themselves so much that they will agitate for their own destruction.

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IzlamIsTyranny

7 years ago

Israel should deport this SSOS to Gaza — let him commune w/his muslum buddies up close and personal.

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