No news: Hitler as a role model

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Under the somewhat tortured title “Finding Fault in the Palestinian Messages That Aren’t So Public,” New York Times (NYT) correspondent Isabel Kershner reports that a “new book by an Israeli watchdog group catalogs dozens of examples of messages broadcast by the Palestinian Authority for its domestic audience that would seem at odds with the pursuit of peace and a two-state solution.”

Since at least half of the report is dedicated to “balancing” the evidence provided in the newly published book with anxious questions about the “political correctness” of reporting on the subject, Kershner doesn’t get around to mentioning one of the most widely discussed examples provided in the book: an essay in a youth magazine by a Palestinian girl who describes a dream encounter with various role models including a ninth-century Persian mathematician, an Egyptian Nobel laureate, the historic leader Saladin – and Adolf Hitler.

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1. Conclusion of article...

As I have often argued – for example when I wrote about a “nothing new” sleek YouTube clip that showed a group of cute kids putting on a polished musical performance about the desirability of being martyred for Palestine – the mainstream media are systematically filtering their news about the Middle East in a way that leaves their readers quite ignorant about the realities of which Israelis are only all too aware. That in turn enables the progressive punditocracy to sustain the illusion that it is primarily Israel’s inexplicable intransigence that prevents peace in the Middle East – after all, why not take some risks for peace when it’s "nothing new" when the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader praises Hitler as a tool of divine providence and a teenager dreams of Hitler as a role model, while stores all over the region sell Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”