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Jews v. Arabs: It’s war, even if the ‘Times’ tries to avoid calling it that

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Al Jazeera reporting on the war in Gaza

Will somebody please call this a war?

You won’t find the word “war” in this morning’s lede story in the New York Times on Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza.

Is the Times afraid of offending New York’s Jews, especially the right-wing Jewish establishment? Is it fearful of provoking a slew of accusations from that hawkish establishment that the paper is antisemitic? Probably.

But that’s nuts. The word pops up several times in the city’s main Jewish newspaper, the Daily Forward, which is definitely not a lefty publication.

For example, the Forward‘s lede story this morning is from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (the Chosen People’s wire service), for whom Dina Kraft writes:

Just as in the summer of 2006, when the northern part of the country huddled in bomb shelters during the Second Lebanon War and the rest of the country carried on with its business, a new war has come that affects Israelis — at least in part — according to geography.

Practically all of the U.S. mainstream press goes through gyrations to avoid calling what’s going on in the Middle East a “war.”

That’s why if you want to read the un-P.C. skinny about the current war between Arabs and Jews and about the complex, murky, often slimy world of American-Israeli politics, you have to read the Forward. Or at least the press in other countries.

Depending on your political or gastronomic persuasion, order another bagel or sfiha and click on these stories…

NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

N.Y. Post: ‘CAR FUMES KILL LOVERS’

Wall Street Journal: ‘Israel to Discuss Gaza Cease-Fire’

A high-ranking Israeli delegation was scheduled to arrive in Egypt to discuss the possibilities of a cease-fire in the Jewish state’s 12-day assault on the Gaza Strip.

N.Y. Post: ‘MAN FATALLY STABS HIS PIT BULL’

Wall Street Journal: ‘Job Test Spawns Culture of Cheating’

Online personality tests have helped retailers to automate hiring. But the tests are also creating a culture of cheating and raising questions about their fairness.

Jewish Daily Forward: ‘Dovish Jewish Groups Break Ranks, Call for Cease-Fire’

N.Y. Post: ‘UNEMPLOYMENT OUTAGE’

Department of Labor, please hold. A rush of out-of-work New Yorkers overwhelmed the state’s unemployment system yesterday, forcing the program’s automated phone banks and…

Wall Street Journal: ‘Obama Pushes States to Cover More Unemployed’

Village Voice: ‘Mayor Mike and the Yanks: City Hall gift-wraps another present for baseball’s richest team’ (Tom Robbins)

N.Y. Post: ‘New York City animal shelters scramble after strep outbreak kills dogs’

N.Y. Times: ‘Obama Seeks to Mend Rift Over Panetta’

N.Y. Post: ‘OY VEY, WHAT A ‘SNATCH’: GEM BANDITS USE FILM-STYLE HASID DISGUISE’

N.Y. Times: ‘Facing Losses, Billionaire Takes His Own Life’

N.Y. Daily News: ‘You don’t scare me, thug’

A Queens grandmother who fought off a prowler said she wants to confront her attacker.

Jewish Daily Forward: ‘As Bush Exits, Four High-Profile Felons Hope For Pardons’

…Public campaigns have been launched on behalf of Jonathan Pollard, the Navy analyst who was sent to jail for spying on behalf of Israel, and Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a leading neoconservative and former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. Jewish philanthropist and former junk-bond king Michael Milken had his application for pardon submitted by Washington bigwig Ted Olsen.

N.Y. Post: ‘YANKEE PANKY: NEW SLUGGER’S SMOOCHY COUP’

N.Y. Daily News: ‘Free perking for ex-MTA official’

N.Y. Times: ‘Israel Puts Media Clamp on Gaza’

N.Y. Daily News: ‘B’klyn stops being polite: The Real World comes to Brooklyn for its 21st season’

ABC: ‘The Burris Circus and the Politics of Race’

Onion: ‘Terror Experts Warn Next 9/11 Could Fall On Different Date’

Wall Street Journal: ‘India Outsourcer
Rocked by Fraud’

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju Wednesday resigned admitting to falsifying company accounts and inflating revenue and profit figures over several years, sending the company’s shares plunging 78%…..

Satyam’s clients include General Electric Co., General Motors Corp., Nissan Motor Co., Applied Materials Inc., Caterpillar Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Sony Corp.

N.Y. Post: ‘45% FAVOR CAROLINE’

Forty-five percent of Americans want Gov. Paterson to name Caroline Kennedy to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a poll released yesterday.

N.Y. Times: ‘Cuomo Aide Is Said to Try to Slow Kennedy Bid’

Jewish Daily Forward: ‘Israel’s Stark Choice in Gaza: Cease-Fire or Regime Change?’

N.Y. Post: ‘”EX” SEX EXTORT ARREST’

N.Y. Times: ‘Specter Attacks Choice for Attorney General’

N.Y. Post: ‘POL BUS KILLS KID: CANDIDATE DEVASTATED’

A campaign bus for a candidate in the City Council’s special election killed a 9-year-old Queens boy scampering home from school yesterday…

N.Y. Observer: ‘Palm Beach Ponzi Pique: Why Did Madoff Bilk Own Mishpocheh?’

Wall Street Journal: ‘Madoff Tried to Stave Off Firm’s Crash Before Arrest’

Ten days before his arrest, Bernard Madoff received $250 million from a man who helped give him his start on Wall Street, a move that shows how the investment manager tried to raise cash to stave off his firm’s collapse.

Mr. Madoff received $250 million around Dec. 1 from Carl Shapiro, a 95-year-old Palm Beach, Fla., philanthropist and entrepreneur who is one of Mr. Madoff’s oldest friends and biggest financial backers, according to people familiar with the matter.

N.Y. Post: ‘SEC GAL FIRES BACK’

Former SEC exec Meaghan Cheung, who oversaw a 2006 probe of swindler Bernard Madoff’s firm, defended herself yesterday against claims that she and others blew it by not uncovering his huge…

N.Y. Post: ‘NYU “BERNED” FOR $94 MILLION’

New York University lost as much as $94 million when a hotshot money manager, against the school’s wishes, invested the cash with swindler Bernie Madoff, its lawyers told a judge yesterday…

 

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