I guess this is appropriate here, but the New York Times is officially on my never read again list. I really hate the press. I just don't understand the idiotic decision that was made. If you don't think there is an Anti Israel Bias in the USA, you are wrong. The paper just printed an obvious Hamas propaganda piece that puts some truly incredulous claims about Israel and is backed with only sources that any reasonable person would say are questionable. On top of that, it comes out 1 day before the October 7th report dealing with some horrendous abuses suffered by the hostages/captives that IS backed by reliable source reporting and hard evidence. I am sorry, but this is flat out wrong, immoral and grossly inhumane. I am not regurgitating all of the details here, independent research will take you if you are interested in this item. I will say the author of the Times piece is a controversial one sided human who has been accused of a lot of agenda and bias in the past. The sad thing is that the paper is defending him and they are spouting off a lot of legalese. I hope they are sued for libel in this case and they deserve everything coming to them. Granted, this is labeled as an OPED, BUT there is still a responsibility in reporting.
Once again, this is not free press and I would have hoped that one of the most respected papers in the world (even with a liberal bias) would have the guts to not print something so egregious and frankly disgusting to me. There is no excuse for this, this is not political , it is immoral. How you can print garbage that is sourced by known terrorists and a propaganda machine in the USA is again, another thing that is beyond me. What a load of garbage.
That is why the USA should not take their foot off the neck of Iran. Once and for all, this regime needs to be put to sleep permanently. In the words of my deceased 98 year old WW2 Veteran Grandfather - make it a parking lot and start over.(He said that over 20 years ago) With them will certainly go away a lot of sympathizers. There is no other solution.
TD