Jodi Rudoren, the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief whose reporting is heavily slanted toward the Palestinian cause and hostile toward Israel, made the off-lead spot in Sunday's edition with "East Jerusalem, Bubbling Over With Despair – The Frustration Behind a Series of Stabbings," which blamed Israel-fueled "frustration and alienation" for the "uprising."
Rudoren's twisted priorities are evident both in the headline and her tone. As if the real tragedy was not the stabbing of a Jewish man in the back -- or at least that's what "the police said,"according to Rudoren -- but that the murder-minded Palestinian college student will lose her residency. Israel is revoking her residency and that of 16 other attackers, which means they would lose welfare benefits, a horrific turn in the mind of the liberal Times.
East Jerusalem, long the emotional heart of Palestinian life, is now the fiery soul of its discontent.
It is not just that most of the young people suspected in this month’s spate of stabbing attacks came from within the city borders, like the 18-year-old college student whose residency is being revoked by Israel after the police said she stabbed a Jewish man in the back.
It is that her neighborhood of 18,000, Sur Baher, is also home to people like Fuad Abu Hamed, a successful businessman who condemns the wave of violence but shares the frustration and alienation underlying this new uprising.
Mr. Abu Hamed, 44, is a lecturer at Hebrew University who runs two clinics in Israel’s health system, and lives in a comfortable home among Sur Baher’s tangle of crowded hills. The view from his balcony is of sprawling Jewish enclaves that he said were “built on our lands,” and the ugly barrier Israel erected that splits Sur Baher from the occupied West Bank.
The same "ugly barrier" that keeps Jews safe from Palestinian terror, Rudoren forgot to mention.
Rudoren, in her typical fashion, shifted the blame away from individual Palestinians and onto the Jewish state.
For Israeli Jews, the outbreak of seemingly random attacks by Palestinians is both a vexing challenge to contain and a reminder of the inherent conundrum in their vision of a united Jerusalem.
For many of the 320,000 Arab residents, the violence is a consequence of years of feeling like the neglected stepchildren of both City Hall and the Palestinian Authority, which is headquartered in the West Bank and is barred from operating in Jerusalem. They do not feel wanted here, or part of what is happening there.
Civic and cultural institutions decamped years ago for the West Bank city of Ramallah. In Arab East Jerusalem, there are too few classrooms, and too many dropouts. It is difficult to get a permit to expand a home; 98 illegal structures were demolished last year. Three-quarters of the population lives below Israel’s poverty line.
Rudoren made sure every potential positive of Israeli life for Palestinians must instantly be squelched.
Even as they benefit from Israel’s robust economy, many seethe as they pump gas or stock shelves for better-off Jewish peers.
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The uptick in aggression did not begin with the two dozen attacks that have killed seven Israeli Jews, five of them in Jerusalem, since Oct. 1. (At least 16 suspected assailants have been shot dead by Israelis, including four Saturday, along with more than 20 other Palestinians in clashes with security forces). East Jerusalem has been a hotbed since July 2014, when Jewish extremists kidnapped and murdered Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old from the Shuafat neighborhood. The police reported 1,594 stone-throwing incidents in East Jerusalem over the next three months, up from 1,216 during 10 months of 2013; more than 700 people were arrested for rioting in Jerusalem during that period in 2014. The police said they had detained 380 between Sept. 13 and Oct. 15 of this year, 171 of them minors.
How could the Times leave out what happened a few weeks earlier: the murder of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinian terrorists? The paper's coverage of Jews murdered by Palestinian terrorists has always been more dutiful and less heart-felt than Palestinians killed in retaliatory attacks. The Times celebrates stone-throwing Palestinians, who have caused several car crashes with fatalities, and marked the release of Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar, who killed two toddler girls while on a kidnapping mission, by letting him deny his culpability.
Rudoren devoted a total of two paragraphs to the Israeli side of the situation, with a former agent for Israel's Shin Bet blaming “toxic incitement” in Palestinian schoolbooks.
Israel captured it all from Jordan in the 1967 war, and expanded Jerusalem’s boundaries to 27 square miles from 2.3. Israel’s annexation was rejected by the United Nations, and most of the world considers the territory occupied. Today, 200,000 Jews live beyond Israel’s original border, most in new developments -- widely considered illegal settlements -- like those Mr. Abu Hamed can see from his balcony, 2,000 scattered amid the Palestinian enclaves.
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Palestinians are outraged that no such punishment was considered for the three Jewish men on trial for the grisly killing of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, who was burned alive last year. Nor were checkpoints established in their neighborhoods.
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Mr. Abu Hamed, too, said he was delayed. But his complaints are more fundamental than a temporary checkpoint.
A couple and their two children died in a fire last year, he said, because engines are dispatched to Sur Baher from another Palestinian neighborhood rather than from the closer Jewish ones. He petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court in 1999 to demand a girls’ school in Sur Baher, and won, but says the neighborhood now needs 20 schools, not the current 13. The trash hauling bins down the road are overflowing, something he never sees when he goes to pay taxes on the other side of town.
CAMERA's Alex Safian notes that trash bins overflow in Jewish neighborhood as well, and had this to add about the "ugly barrier":
Since September 2000, more than 1200 people were killed in Palestinian attacks against Israel, the vast majority before the security barrier was built. Both Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouq and Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah admitted that what the Times calls an 'ugly barrier' has made it much harder for Palestinian terrorists to carry out attacks inside Israel....The bottom line ignored by the Times and Mr. Abu Hamed: no ugly Palestinian terrorism, no 'ugly barrier.'
The Times buried a short, related story on A13: "Anger Spreads With 5 Attacks On Israelis."
