So Israel is suing the New York Times. Not before time, if you ask me. Particularly since October 7 – the sexual depravities of which were revealed this week in a stomach-churning independent report – America’s paper of record has preoccupied itself with magnifying the most grotesque stories about the Jewish state, giving Hamas the incentive to persevere in their bloodthirsty propaganda strategy.

The liberal media is providing the oxygen for the very people it most affects to loathe

The liberal media is providing the oxygen for the very people it most affects to loathe

This week, it was a column by two-time Pulitzer prize winning journalist Nick Kristof, who in the distant past once retweeted a post describing a pro-Israel group as “pigs”. Headlined “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians” – you see what they did there? – it relied upon the testimony of an NGO with well-documented links to Hamas, various anonymous sources and Sami al-Sai, a Gazan “freelance journalist” who appears to have shifted his story. In spite of these questionable sources, Kristof and the New York Times stand by the allegations.

Upon this foundation it wove a tissue of the obscenest allegations against Israel, culminating in a claim as ludicrous as it was lurid, that IDF (Israel Defense Forces) personnel managed to train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. (Few things have been more tragic recently than the sight of beleaguered Jews making zoological arguments about canine penises........

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