THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST |
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. "( Zechariah 12: 2-4 )
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Dec 25 -- 2003 : Bloody day in Israel, Gaza-- Four people were killed and 13 wounded by a suicide bomber who struck a major intersection near Tel Aviv today, Israeli police said. It was the first suicide bombing in Israel since October. Just hours before the terror attack, six people, including the leader of the Al Quds Brigade, were killed in an Israeli helicopter strike in Gaza, Palestinian security and medical sources said. More
Dec 01 -- 2003 : Signing set for Mideast 'accord'
-- GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) -- Israelis and Palestinians are in Geneva for the scheduled signing of the so-called "Geneva Accord," an unofficial agreement aimed at pushing the Mideast peace process forward.
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Oct 20 -- 2003 : Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City-- Israeli warplanes and helicopters stage three airstrikes in Gaza city, killing at least three people and injuring at least 31 others, Palestinian and Israeli sources say.
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Oct 18 -- 2003 : Isreali Force shoots 4 people.. HAMAS vows revenge-- GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians in fighting on Saturday in the occupied territories, including a senior member of the Hamas militant group, a woman bystander and a teenager, medics said.
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Oct 14 -- 2003 : NY Times: Syria Activating Reservists
-- (IsraelNN.com) According to a New York Times report based on information from a diplomatic source, Syria is activating 300,000 army reservists as a result of rising tensions with Israel. There is no official verification of the report.
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Oct 10 -- 2003 : Israeli tanks move into Gaza --
Six reported killed as IDF targets weapons tunnels
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli tanks rolled into Rafah, in southern Gaza, overnight on a mission to shut down tunnels that Israel says are used for smuggling arms.
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Oct 8 -- 2003 : Syria Says Ready to Fight if Israel Attacks Again
-- JERUSALEM/MADRID (Reuters) - Syria's ambassador to Spain said on Wednesday Damascus would respond militarily against Israel if the Jewish state carried out new attacks on Syrian territory.
A senior Israeli security source swiftly dismissed the threat, saying Israel did not want to escalate tensions and believed Syria did not want to start a war. The source said the envoy's statement was mainly intended to impress the Arab world.
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Oct 7 -- 2003 : Israeli Soldier Shot Dead at Lebanese Border
-- JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army said shots fired from Lebanon killed an Israeli soldier on Israel's side of the border on Monday and that it held Syria responsible.
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Oct 5 -- 2003 : Fears over Israeli strike on Syria-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Concern is growing around the world that an Israeli air strike in Syria on what the Israelis said was a Palestinian training camp could heighten already-strained tensions in the Middle East
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Oct 5 -- 2003 : Israel 'strikes camp in Syria'
-- The Israeli military says it attacked a Palestinian terrorist training camp in Syria hours after a suicide bomber killed 19 people in Israel.
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Oct 4 -- 2003 : 10 die in Haifa suicide blast
-- A suicide bomber kills at least 10 people at a restaurant in the northern port of Haifa, Israeli police say.
Forces in Israel have been on high alert for terror attacks ahead of Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, which begins at sundown Sunday. More.
Sept 26 -- 2003 : Adult, infant die in attack on Jewish settlement
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An Israeli adult and a baby were killed and two others wounded Friday when a Palestinian gunman barged into a Jewish settlement in the West Bank and opened fire, Israeli medics said.
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Sept 10 -- 2003 : Hamas leader survives air strike-- An Israeli airstrike hits the home of senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, injuring him and killing two others, including a bodyguard, Palestinian and hospital sources say.
A witness says he saw an Israeli F16 jet drop a bomb on the house in Gaza City. The attack follows two suicide bombings in Israel that killed 15 people and two bombers.
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Sept 09 -- 2003 : Bombings in Israel kill 9
-- Two bombs have exploded in Israel killing at least nine people and wounding dozens, Israeli police say.
At least three people were killed and 32 injured in a bombing at an outdoor terrace of a cafe in West Jerusalem. Earlier, a suicide bomber set off a powerful explosion at a bus stop near an Israeli army base east of Tel Aviv, killing six Israelis and seriously wounding 15.
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Sept 07 -- 2003 : Israel closes West Bank, Gaza-- Israel ordered a full closure of the West Bank and Gaza, forbidding any Palestinians from entering Israel, after Hamas' spiritual leader threatened to continue the group's jihad against the Jewish state. More.
Sept 06 -- 2003 : Officials: Abbas submits resignation
-- Less than four months after his installation as Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas submitted his resignation today, his office said. Abbas will play a "caretaker" role of the position until a new prime minister is sworn in, Palestinian Legislative Council member Saeb Erakat told CNN. More.
Sept 01 -- 2003 : At least 2 dead in Israeli strike
-- An Israeli helicopter attack Monday in Gaza City killed at least two people, including a member of the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, Palestinian sources said.
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Aug 30 -- 2003 : Palestinians: At least two killed in Gaza strike
-- GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- At least two Palestinians were killed Saturday in an Israeli helicopter missile strike in central Gaza, Palestinian security officials told CNN Saturday.
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Aug 29 -- 2003 : Palestinian gunmen kill Israeli in West Bank ambush
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car in the West Bank carrying an Israeli couple Friday morning, killing the husband and seriously injuring the wife, according to Israeli medical sources.
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Aug 27 -- 2003 : Israeli missile strike kills 1, wounds others in Gaza
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli helicopters fired at least three missiles Tuesday at a car near a refugee camp north of Gaza City, killing an elderly man and wounding 23 bystanders, Palestinian hospital sources said.
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Aug 24 -- 2003 : Israeli rocket attack kills 4
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli helicopters fired at least two missiles at a Palestinian security installation Sunday night in Gaza City, killing four people, witnesses told CNN.
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Aug 21 -- 2003 : Hamas ends cease-fire
-- Hamas declares an end to its cease-fire with Israel shortly after one of its leaders and two others were killed in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.The missile strike came two days after a deadly blast in Jerusalem killed more than 20 people, including several young children, and wounded more than 130.
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Aug 20 -- 2003 : Israel: Peace process might be at an end
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- As the Israeli Cabinet met Wednesday to consider its response to a deadly suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus, a Foreign Ministry official warned that the peace process is at a "critical junction" and might be at its end. More.
Aug 19 -- 2003 :
Jerusalem bus blast kills 20
-- A powerful suicide bombing aboard a Jerusalem bus kills 20 people, children among them, and injures more than 86 others, rescue workers and police say."It's one of the worst scenes," said one official. "Although we have been to many scenes in the past three years, it is so hard to get used to. But to see the young babies and children, it's absolutely terrible."
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Aug 12 -- 2003 :
Suicide bombings in Israel, West Bank
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Less than an hour apart, a pair of suicide bombings Tuesday killed two Israelis and wounded at least a dozen others. The two bombers also died in the attacks.
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July 25 -- 2003 :
Gaza attack wounds 7
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- A rocket-propelled grenade struck the main Gaza prison Thursday, critically wounding seven people in what Palestinian military intelligence sources are calling a failed assassination attempt against Musa Arafat, the chief of the Palestinian Authority's military intelligence.
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July 08 -- 2003 :
Suicide bomber blamed for Israel blast
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An explosion which killed an Israeli woman in her home Monday was described by police as a suicide bombing
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June 24-- 2003 :
Hamas suspects arrested
-- In response to recent suicide attacks, the Israeli army overnight arrested 130 suspected Hamas activists in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Israel Defense Forces said today. Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization, has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
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June 19-- 2003 :
Suicide bomber kills Israeli store owner
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A suicide bomber detonated inside an Israeli grocery store early Thursday, killing himself and the store's owner, according to Israeli police and medical sources.
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June 13-- 2003 :
New helicopter strike in Gaza-- Two Israeli Apache helicopters have fired a missile at a car in Gaza City, killing one person and wounding 25, Palestinian sources told CNN. Israeli media said the target was a Hamas cell that earlier in the day had fired homemade Qassam rockets into Israel. Following a week of escalating violence, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is pressing militant groups to "abandon terror."
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June 12 -- 2003 :
7 dead in new Gaza strike
-- For the third time in 24 hours, Israeli helicopter gunships have fired missiles in Gaza, this time killing two members of Hamas and five others, according to Palestinian sources. The strike follows an Israeli Cabiniet meeting in which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would continue to pursue terrorists, and comes a day after a Hamas-claimed suicide bombing killed 16 people on a Jerusalem bus More.
June 11 -- 2003 :
Police: Suicide bomber kills 16 in Jerusalem-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The fledgling road map to Middle East peace was put to a bloody test Wednesday, when a Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem and Israeli forces attacked Hamas militants in Gaza, leaving more than two dozen people dead and 100 others wounded.
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June 10 -- 2003 :
Hamas official injured in Israeli strike-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas called Tuesday's Israeli helicopter strike against a senior Hamas leader in Gaza a "criminal and terrorist" attack.
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June 8 -- 2003 :
Attack kills 4 Israeli soldiers
-- Four Israeli soldiers were killed and four others wounded today in an attack by Palestinian gunmen at an Israeli military checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Three Palestinian groups claimed responsibility for the attack at the Erez crossing in northern Gaza. Three Palestinian gunmen, dressed as Israeli soldiers, were killed by Israeli soldiers who fired back, the IDF said.
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June 6 -- 2003 :
Arafat: Sharon offers nothing -- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel will begin dismantling unauthorized Israeli settler outposts in a few days and will eventually remove all of them, an Israeli diplomat said Thursday.
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May 25 -- 2003 :
Israel OKs road map -- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Israeli Cabinet voted Sunday to accept the U.S.-supported "road map" to a Mideast peace agreement -- clearing the way for a series of steps that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state within three years.
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May 19 -- 2003 :
New suicide attack reported in Mideast
-- Israeli Army Radio is reporting that a suicide bomber killed three people today in an attack in the northern Israeli town of Afula, according to The Associated Press. It would be the fifth terror attack in the Mideast over the past two days.
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May 19 -- 2003 :
Israel closes West Bank
-- The Mideast peace process appears on hold after a weekend of suicide bombings killed nine Israelis and prompted the Israeli military to close off the West Bank. The violence continued today, as a Palestinian suicide bomber slightly injured three Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has postponed a meeting with President Bush in Washington.
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May 18 -- 2003 :
Sharon postpones trip to U.S. after suicide bombings
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has postponed a planned visit to the United States after a suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem commuter bus killed at least seven people and wounded 19 others. The bombings were the latest in a string of violent incidents coming within hours of a meeting between Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem.
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May 01 -- 2003 :
Gaza deaths follow Mideast peace plan launch
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- At least 10 Palestinians were killed -- including a 2-year-old and a teenager -- and 47 injured after Israeli forces entered Gaza City early Thursday and destroyed the house of a Hamas activist, according to Palestinian security sources. More.
April 30 -- 2003 :
Peace plan to be handed over after terror attack kills 3
-- RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- An international plan setting out a "road map" for Mideast peace will be handed to Palestinian and Israeli leaders Wednesday -- just hours after a suicide bomber killed three people in Tel Aviv.
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April 24 -- 2003 :
Suicide bomber kills 1, wounds 14 in Israel
-- KFAR SABA, Israel (CNN) -- A Palestinian teenager blew himself up outside Kfar Saba's new train station early Thursday, killing an Israeli security guard who prevented him from entering the station, and injuring 14 other people -- two seriously, according to Israeli police and medical relief services.
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April 20 -- 2003 :
Six dead after Gaza gun battle
-- RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- Fierce fighting during an Israeli military operation in Gaza has left six people dead and more than 100 injured.
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April 15 -- 2003 :
Three Israelis die in Palestinian terrorist attacks Tuesday
-- Zachar Chanukayev, 39, forklift driver from Sderot, Ahmed Kra, 20, truck driver from Shoefat, were killed when Palestinian Hamas terrorist opened automatic fire, tossed grenades at Karni terminal on Gaza Strip border. Another seven Israelis injured, two seriously, before gunman killed.
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Mar 30 -- 2003 :
Suicide bomber wounds at least 20 in Israel
-- NETANYA, Israel (CNN) -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosion that left at least 20 people injured -- five seriously -- at a busy cafe Sunday afternoon in this northern Israeli coastal town, according to Israeli police and ambulance services.
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Mar 27 -- 2003 :
SYRIAN WAR THREATS
-- Reinforcing growing concerns in government circles in Jerusalem that a wider regional war may be brewing, Israeli officials are assessing war threats issued by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, whose oppressive Baath political party is related to Saddam Hussein's ruling party. His alarming remarks were published in the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir earlier today. Syrian troops have occupied Lebanon since 1976.
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Mar 17 -- 2003 :
Palestinians say 9 dead in Gaza clashes
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- At least nine Palestinians were killed and 20 injured Monday during Israeli operations in Gaza, Palestinian security and medical sources said.
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Mar 15 -- 2003 :
Mid-East peace plan welcomed
-- The latest moves by the United States to seek an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been broadly welcomed around the world.
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Mar 08 -- 2003 :
Hamas says one of its top leaders killed
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Four Hamas members -- including a top commander of the Islamic militant group -- were killed when Israeli rockets hit their car Saturday morning, according to Palestinian security and Hamas sources.
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Mar 06 -- 2003 :
VIOLENCE IN THE MIDEAST -- Eleven Palestinians are reported killed in an Israeli incursion into Gaza, a day after a suicide bomber killed 15 Israelis. More.
Mar 05 -- 2003 :
Bomb blast kills 15 in Israel -- A terror attack by a suicide bomber aboard a bus in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa killed at least 15 people today, Israeli police sources said. Dozens more were seriously hurt in the blast, the first such attack in two months. More.
Mar 03 -- 2003 :
Eight dead in Israeli-Palestinian clashes
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- During an incursion into central Gaza overnight, Israeli troops clashed with Palestinians in the Al-Bureij refugee camp, Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian officials said Monday. At least eight people were killed and about 40 injured. More.
Feb 23 -- 2003 :
Palestinian sources: Five killed in Gaza clashes
-- BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (CNN) -- At least five Palestinians were killed and 25 injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers operating in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza early Sunday, according to Palestinian security sources.
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Feb 19 -- 2003 :
11 killed in Israeli operation in Gaza City
-- GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- In Israel's latest action against the Islamic militant group Hamas, troops entered Gaza City overnight, killing 11 Palestinians in what military sources called a targeted mission against the "terror infrastructure" responsible for killing four Israeli soldiers in Gaza last weekend.
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Feb 15 -- 2003 :
4 Israeli soldiers dead in attack on tank
-- DUGIT, Gaza (CNN) -- Four Israeli soldiers were killed Saturday when their tank ran over an explosive device, the Israel Defense Forces said.
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Jan 26 -- 2003 :
Palestinians: Gaza sweep kills 12
-- GAZA CITY (CNN) -- The Israeli army said Sunday it had withdrawn its forces from a Gaza City neighborhood after a major anti-terror sweep that sources said left at least 12 Palestinians dead.
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Jan 24 -- 2003 :
Israeli Copters Shell Gaza City Targets
-- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli attack helicopters fired 11 missiles at Gaza City early Friday, hitting a hospital chapel and several metal workshops. Islamic militants retaliated by firing three crude rockets at an Israeli desert town.
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Jan 13 -- 2003 :
11 Dead in Mideast Clashes
-- Clashes Sunday between Israelis and Palestinians have left at least 11 people dead.
Israeli officials say two Palestinians shot and killed an Israeli in a village near the West Bank in an attack claimed by the militant group Islamic Jihad. Hours later, Israeli troops killed the two attackers.
Source: VOANEWS.
Jan 12 -- 2003 :
Rockets hit Israeli town
-- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Three Palestinian Qassam rockets were fired Sunday from Gaza and hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Source: CNN.
Jan 06 -- 2003 :
Israel retaliates for suicide blasts
-- TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- Israeli forces launched operations in the West Bank and Gaza early Monday, hours after two nearly simultaneous suicide bombings killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100 others in central Tel Aviv.
Source: CNN.
Jan 05 -- 2003 :
Explosions rock Tel Aviv -- Two large explosions rocked central Tel Aviv today, witnesses reported. The blasts caused numerous injuries and there were "some bodies" at the scene, witness Eudi Friedman told CNN. The explosions occurred about 6:30 p.m. (11:30 ET) at a former bus station, Friedman said. Source: CNN.
Jan 01 -- 2003 :
Israeli tanks enter refugee camps. -- JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel's military rolled into refugee camps in central and southern Gaza Wednesday night, deploying soldiers, tanks and engineering forces equipped with bulldozers, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday.
Source: CNN.
ANTI-ISRAELI NEWSCOVERAGE ?
I received the following email from 'The Temple Institute' the other day: A(nother) case of anti-Israeli newscoverage ?
The New York Times exposed.
You need to look at the attached picture before you read this!
Subject: To the Editor
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:15:07 -0500
From: aaronnoach aaronnoach@21stcentury.net
To: letters@nytimes.com
Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son , Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while travelling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and stabbed.
That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob.
Aaron Grossman, M.D.
6737 N Richmond
Chicago, IL 60645
(773) ###-####
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:54:39 EDT
From: Heshygiss@aol.com
To: letters@nytimes.com
CC: aaronnoach@21stcentury.net, JPeditor@aol.com
Dear Editor,
Even the typically biased and slanted NY Times middle east reporting has hit a new low. Since the Times wishes to convey the belief that the Palestinians are all innocent lambs being tormented by an aggressive oppressor, it can not even conceive that the wounded and injured are NOT Palestinians. The current case in point is very personal to me. In the Saturday's Times on page A6, the picture of the "wounded Palestinian" is, in fact, my nephew, Tuvia Grossman, an AMERICAN Jewish student learning in Israel. His only crime was being Jewish. He was not in "crossfire" but merely the target of Palestinian lambs who stoned his cab, dragged him from the vehicle, smashed his head with stones and stabbed him in the leg. The Israeli soldier, whom you obviously wished to portray as victimizing the poor, wounded Palestinian was actually saving my nephew's life. A casual look at the background of the picture can tell anyone that it's not the Temple Mount at all. I believe that a retraction, in a prominent position in the paper, is necessary and an apology to the parents, forthcoming.
Howard Gissinger
2809 Avenue S
Brooklyn, New York 11229
718-###-####
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