- Dear Rense Readers:
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- As a journalist and writer, I have never in 40 years
encountered such subterfuge and censorship as I have recently on the Internet.
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- As part of researching for a larger article, I have been
completely stymied at accessing an article by the Israeli writer Ari Shavit,
re-published in The New York Times, May 27, 1996. The following is the
most detailed and complete reference to it that I can find:
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- "This confirms the accuracy of an essay -- reprinted
from the Israeli paper H'aaretz -- that appeared in the New York Times,
May 27, 1996. In it, Ari Shavit, an Israeli columnist, commented on the
wanton killing (April 1996) of more than 100 Lebanese civilians: "We
killed them out of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude
that ... with the White House, the senate, and much of the American media
in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own"
("In Our Hands," Midnight Messenger issue #69, September/October
1996)."
- from
- http://www.midnight-emissary.com/Phony%20War%20MM%20100%20Tract.htm,
- home page
- http://www.midnight-emissary.com/
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- There is another reference by Joseph Sobran: "In
an essay reprinted in the May 27th issue of The New York Times, Ari Shavit,
an Israeli columnist, reflected sorrowfully on the wanton Israeli killing
of more than 100 Lebanese civilians in April: "We killed them out
of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude that now,
with the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in our
hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own..." at
http://www.giwersworld.org/holo/sobran.html
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- Other than these, I find it impossible to retrieve the
original article. It may be available from its source, the H'aaretz newspaper.
If so, I would greatly appreciate a copy.
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- Many thanks,
- Joseph E Fasciani
- jefasciani@highspeedplus.com
-
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- Comment
- From Joe Vender
- 7-4-4
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- In reply to "Request to Rense.com Readers"
(7-3-4)
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- I don't see the problem with censorship in this particular
case. A quick search of NYT's archives for the phrase "shavit"
on the specific date of May 27, 1996 produced the following article available
for purchase:
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- EDITORIAL DESK | May 27, 1996, Monday
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- 'How Easily We Killed Them'
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- By ARI SHAVIT (NYT) Op-Ed words
- Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 19 , Column 3
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30715F93A5D0C748EDDAC089
- 4DE494D81
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