Note: I did not write this. I agree with it, but I don't want the credit for something I do not deserve.What would you say if I told you that a major newspaper printed a cartoon in
which a headless, jack-booted figure marching in a goose step with a sword
in one hand and pushing a Star of David on a wheel with the other, a Jewish
Star with fangs no less, that is chasing after a woman carrying a child,
labeled "Gaza."? Would you guess it was printed by the Hamas? Or perhaps
one of Achmadinejad's favorite newspapers?
Or maybe in Hugo Chavez's home town? Maybe you'd think it was from one of
those Nazi skin-head internet sites. That would be reasonable.
It would be reasonable. But you'd be dead wrong. Because actually,
heartbreakingly, it was published yesterday in the New York Times. The
demonization of a brave, young army trying to protect its women and children
from ruthless, bomb-lobbing terrorists is thus accomplished. And we all
know what the process of demonization leads to. Or we should.
Never again? Well, maybe. But not if we sit back and let these people get
away with it.
Please write to the New York Times to express your outrage. Please find the
time to cancel your subscriptions, and to let their advertisers know how you
feel. This is really the last straw.
http://www.nytimes.com/membercenter/formf.html