Tuesday, July 01, 2014

The NYTimes Hosts Pro-Pal. Apologia

Can you imagine this conversation?

“The whole issue of who did this, we don’t know, really, even though the Israel police managed to punish everybody,” Baruch Marzel, a member of the banned Kach movement's executive committee, said in an interview. “Hilltop youth say they have nothing to do with it. The hilltop youth have never been self-effacing. Whenever they carried out an operation, they always declared it and took responsibility.”

“In every society you have people who commit crimes, you have people who do things outside the law,” Mr. Marzel added. “They may have taken a local initiative, even the Palestinian Authority is saying that.”

No, you can't.  But it really went like this:

“The whole issue of who did this, we don’t know, really, even though Israel managed to punish everybody,” Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee, said in an interview. “Hamas says it has nothing to do with it. Hamas has never been self-effacing. Whenever they carried out an operation, they always declared it and took responsibility.”

“In every society you have people who commit crimes, you have people who do things outside the law,” Ms. Ashrawi added. “They may have taken a local initiative, even Israel is saying that.”

Amazing, eh?

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