{"id":7866,"date":"2009-01-10T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2009-01-10T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T02:39:09","slug":"israels-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7866","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/pageroute.do\/37720\">Jason Maoz &#8212; the most underrated writer in the Jewish media &#8212; writes for The Jewish Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  It takes a time like this for the full fury of Israel&#8217;s leftists to erupt in the face of their own country and government. While it&#8217;s true that, at least for now, Israel&#8217;s anti-Hamas offensive has garnered widespread domestic support, that&#8217;s hardly been the case among the country&#8217;s left-wing elite.  <\/p>\n<p>Many of the Monitor&#8217;s readers may have read some of the op-ed pieces that have appeared in Haaretz since the Gaza operation began, and it&#8217;s not exactly news that the Israeli daily is a hothouse of far-left sensibilities (hence its popularity among foreign journalists and pro-Palestinian bloggers).   <\/p>\n<p>But to truly get an appreciation for the depths of pathology routinely exhibited by Haaretz&#8217;s opinion columnists, one needs to look at several days&#8217; worth of their work product. Drowning out the occasional token centrist or rightist perspective are waves of anti-Israel invective of which the following is just a representative sampling. 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