In a tribute to the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, the New York Times yesterday featured a glowing obituary that blames Israel for Palestinian terrorism, ignores major violent incidents, contradicts historical accounts of certain events, whitewashes viscous propaganda on Palestinian TV, and hails Arafat as a "statesman" and the only Palestinian leader who could make "painful compromises for peace."
In the 5,265 word obituary by writer Judith Miller, readers are introduced to Arafat only as "the wily and enigmatic father of Palestinian nationalism who for almost 40 years symbolized his people's longing for a distinct political identity and independent state ... No other individual so embodied the Palestinians' plight: their dispersal, their statelessness, their hunger for a return to a homeland lost to Israel."
n the most direct reference to Arafat's terrorism, which has involved the massacre of...
Rev. Armen Thomassian | 11/17/2015
