The war against the Jews (20)
I have often referred to the baleful influence of Haaretz on Israel’s reputation through the writings of a number of its correspondents who promulgate the most vicious distortions about their country. Yet even I am left open mouthed by this account of the lies it published recently in a story by Gideon Levy about Palestinian children being deprived of swimming pools, to the extent that allegedly none of them could swim without life preservers. As you will see from the CAMERA article, a multitude of pictures in themselves (similar to the one above of a swimming pool in Jenin) tell a very different story, as did a previous piece in Haaretz itself:
As Levy's own colleague at Ha'aretz, Avi Issacharoff wrote on Aug. 8, 2007:
Nowadays, every city in the West Bank has a pool or a recreational complex: Bethlehem has one similar to Al-Khaluf [a clover-leaf-shaped pool in Dura, near Hebron], while Ramallah has more than 10.One of Jenin's swimming champs committed a suicide bombing at Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant in August 2001. Nablus has a pool reserved for women, and an Olympic pool. Another pool and recreation complex sits between Nablus and Tubas. Al Khaluf draws more than 2,500 people on an average weekend day, [lifeguard Ahmed] Rajoub says. (‘West Bank swimming pools help Palestinians brave the heat’).I really cannot fathom such journalistic wickedness and pathological national self-hatred as displayed by Haaretz, to the extent that its own output becomes totally incoherent and indeed absurd.