In case you missed it, Taylor Lorenz a couple of weeks ago pointed out the obvious for those who didn't see it: expressing right-wing opinions was OK at the New York Times, while left-wing opinions were shut out:
My God, this take. It’s magnificent. pic.twitter.com/cwcytjo9jh
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 12, 2023
Lorenz was citing a piece about the New York Times' coverage of Israel's war on Hamas and how one-sided it is. Just to prove to Lorenz that left-wing opinions had a safe home on the Times op-ed page, the paper handed its Christmas Eve edition to the mayor of Gaza City.
On Christmas Eve, the @nytimes published an op-ed by a senior member of Hamas, Yahya Sarraj.
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) December 25, 2023
I guess the head of the Taliban wasn't available. pic.twitter.com/CeMfNzIXyJ
Unable to reach Al-Qaeda or the Taliban, the @nytimes settled on having Hamas write its guest essay.
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) December 25, 2023
For the record, the word “hostage” doesn’t appear once in this Hamas propaganda piece pic.twitter.com/spU0uOMsSr
So that October 7th thing turned out to be a really bad idea huh. pic.twitter.com/HSRMOTeazV
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 25, 2023
He literally says in the op-ed that Hamas appointed him. pic.twitter.com/N1e4D9mas7
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) December 25, 2023
To be fair, they did that too. pic.twitter.com/hkNprs054s
— Jay Lampert (@MortChristenson) December 25, 2023
Is the Hamas op-ed more or less offensive than the Tom Cotton op-ed to progressive employees?
— Emre (@emre_mayo) December 25, 2023
The op-ed page editor lost his job after publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton because it made the Times' staffers "unsafe."
Gazan leadership voted for these improvements on 10/6/2023.
— Justin Other Tweeter (@ctznjrnlst_ras) December 25, 2023
Choices have consequences.
Start a war, get a war.
— Leave it better than you found it (@AuburysNavy) December 25, 2023
The world has and would pour money on Gaza to make it wonderful. Instead you attacked Israel. Brilliant strategy.
— Jim Country (@4yourcountry) December 25, 2023
Sadly it is a statement of humanity that those that F around will eventually find out. Your people collectively hated others beyond what is acceptable and commtted horrific acts... the reciprication is just deserved and hopefully there will be a mindset change to do better!
— Miles Kaplan (@4MilesKaplan) December 25, 2023
Maybe he should have devoted his life to working for the Palestinian people instead of working for Hamas.
— Nina G Ohlsson (@ninaninaninana) December 25, 2023
Imagine if all of the international aid that was poured into Gaza went toward quality of life improvements in Gaza City instead of a network of terror tunnels and hordes of food and fuel.
Man, that headline is depressing.
— Publius Enigma (@PubliusEnig) December 25, 2023
Hamas should definitely release all of the hostages and surrender unconditionally. That would end this.
Hamas started this knowing there would be repercussions and could easily bring it all to a stop by surrendering unconditionally and releasing all of the hostages, whom the mayor never acknowledged were being held captive in his city.
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