Today’s New York Times has a long report explaining that “Palestinian leaders” are hoping Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump. So far, though, there’s no Times article that shows that Israel’s leaders, along with a crushing majority of Israeli Jews, actually support Donald Trump.
The gist of today’s Times article is that a Biden administration
would give the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, a face-saving chance to reverse a self-inflicted economic hardship that has been punishing his people for months.
This is astonishing bias. To protest Israel’s threat to annex large chunks of the West Bank under Trump’s “peace plan,” Abbas stopped accepting “millions of dollars in taxes that Israel collects on the Palestinian Authority’s behalf,” which meant salary cuts for Palestinian civil servants.
Abbas’s move may have been a mistake, but average Palestinians (people the Times article ignored) surely would have complained more bitterly about Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and the siege of Gaza as the more important causes of their “economic hardship.”
But who do Israeli Jews support for U.S. president? Luckily, there’s no doubt here: a poll in Israel showed that Trump is backed more than three to one by Israeli Jews — 77 to 23 percent among those with an opinion. The American view of Israel as some kind of liberal, progressive beacon has long passed its sell-by date.
Whitewashing Israel’s true right-wing nature today is a key feature in biased coverage by the New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media. You will rarely, for instance, read hair-raising accounts of the open racism among Israeli Jewish “settlers” and others. Covering up the Jewish Israeli enthusiasm for Donald Trump is only the latest example of this bias.
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