Mr. Feiglin is among the most unyielding of West Bank settlers. He has advocated Israeli withdrawal from the United Nations and the cutoff of water and electricity to the Palestinian areas. He says that there is no Palestinian people and that there will never be a Palestinian state, and that Israel will hold onto everything it has now. In a television interview on Wednesday, he advocated annexing the West Bank and paying Palestinians to leave.

The above is a quote from a story in today’s (December 11, 2008) New York Times on ultra right-wing Israeli Likud politician Moshe Feiglin. As the quote mentions this is a guy who favors ethnic cleansing (”paying” them is just a facade), wants to cut water and lights off for the Palestinians, and won’t even consider a two-state solution; even one that was incredibly favorable to Israel in land and water rights. Even the right-wing hawkish Likud party is worried that Feiglin on the Likud inventory of candidates might scare off moderate Israelis and lose them the election.

But what does the Times say about Feiglin’s extremism: he is “unyielding”. This is the type of crap one has to confront in the U.S. press on Israel-Palestine. Any Israeli official, no matter how extreme, is always humanized and moderated for American readers lest they (gush!) develop an unfavorable opinion of even one Israel.

Would the Times ever call a Palestinian politician who opposed a two-state solution and called for making Israelis suffer until the leave the land “unyielding in his support for the Palestinian cause”? No, he would be called extremist, fanatical and terrorist all in one paragraph.

There are numerous examples of U.S. media bias:

Recently illegal ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli settlers ran rampage in occupied Hebron not only against Palestinians, which is the norm, but also against Israeli troops who were ordered by the Israeli High Court to evict the settlers from a compound that had illegally - even by Israeli standards - settled in.

In its coverage the Times start off with a picture of a mother and children meant to evoke sympathy.

Every Israeli deserves sympathy, even those who selfishly push out more Palestinian off their land and into smaller and smaller open-air prisons. And even those who routinely attack Palestinians, as settlers in Israel do. The Times though makes sure that the reader only on occasion is made to feel a tinge of concern for the Palestinians, maybe when a whole convoy of school children are killed, maybe maybe.

The Times included this sub-headline: “Jewish settlers rampaged Thursday on the roofs of Palestinian homes in Hebron, responding in fury to the forced eviction of settlers from a disputed building.”

Israeli violence is always responding. Israelis are simply to civilized to initiate violence, they’re simple to kind and caring to every be the propagators of violence. No, their cute violence is also a response to what the Palestinians have done. No matter how savage Israeli action against the Palestinians is, it will always be molded into a fluff, sanitized, “understanding Israeli rage”, humanized violence. The U.S. press routinely seeks to lessen the vehemence of Zionist terror. Always crafting the truth to fit an image that the Israeli embassy would be proud of. Always making sure that Americans never lose any love for Israel and never gain any sympathy for the Palestinians. Nothing more than propaganda.

Unless you thought that such excellent, objective reporting was confined to the Times, you don’t know just how lucky we are to have so many such fine journalists. The Washington Post is one of our most respected papers. Check out their “fair and balanced” reporters: “Last spring, dozens of Jewish youths attacked two young Palestinians at the nearby mall, seriously wounding one of them.”

Unlike the Times, the Washington Post actually seeks to inform readers when Israelis attack Palestinians in paragraph 16!. The headline for this article is “Israeli Wall Fuels Migration”. If the attacks were reversed, it would be the front-page lead with “ATTENTION: Israeli Youth Attacked By Sand-Niggers!!!”

The Israeli embassy and consulates in the U.S. should just reprint U.S. media “reports” as propaganda, why waste money writing your own?