Commentary;
This week, Manhigut Yehudit’s weekly updates offered 2 timely articles, this one and the one directly beneath it, which this author
endorses as must reading.
Before we rush to judgement and fete Haaretz Journalist Ari Shavit as being courageous, visionary and of great professional journalistic integrity, it’s imperative that we stop and think and analyze Shavit’s writings against the Left’s agenda and the media role of Haaretz in it.
The breast-beating by some segments of Israel’s mainstream media may just be camouflage to make a readership, already angry with the bumbling, bungling and corruption of the politicians and the government, believe or percieve that the media at long last is doing t’shuvah, mending it’s ways.
What Manhigut Yehudit is indicating to us is, stop and think again. The picture just may not be as the media spin-masters make it seem. MB
For context, click here, here and here.
The Left Wants Olmert Out Manhigut Yehudit Weekly Update — 2 September, 2006
Famous Left-wing journalist Ari Shavit wrote a very telling article this week. Shavit is one of the prominent journalists consistently calling upon Israeili Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign. On the surface, one would even think that Shavit is emerging from his Left wing hallucinatory state. But if you read his article carefully, you find the catch.
“Olmert is on his way out, in any event,” writes Shavit in the Ha’aretz newspaper this week. “There won’t be peace here and there won’t be an end to Israel’s conquest of the territories unless Israel’s power has been revitalized.”
In his article, Shavit opens our eyes to two important facts:
The first fact — Olmert is on his way out “in any event.” In other words, early elections are approaching.
The second fact – Olmert has to go because he can no longer deliver the goods – peace and the end of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria. In other words, normalcy free of settlers.
The Ha’aretz newspaper is (unfortunately) the most influential daily paper in Israel. It determines the national agenda more than any other Israeli newspaper. Ari Shavit is arguably the most prominent journalist in Ha’aretz. In other words, Shavit’s column is not just personal opinion. It is a very strong indication of which way the wind is blowing.
Once again, Shavit has clarified for us that Olmert’s war of deception was supposed to have supplied sufficient security to make unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria acceptable to the public. Now that it seems that Olmert cannot deliver the goods, Shavit concludes that it is time for him to go.