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Terrorism

NY Times blasted for minimizing terror


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
September 05, 2004

The Zionist Organization of America last week slammed the New York Times for suggesting the double “suicide” bus bombings in Beersheva marked the first serious terrorism Israel had experienced in more than six months.

Sixteen Israelis were killed and more than 100 others wounded in that attack.

The Times stated in the opening paragraph of a September 1 report that “relative quiet” had prevailed in the region for more than half a year prior to Beersheva.

But while last Tuesday’s coordinated mass murder was the largest single successful terror attack since March, it was by no means the only act of “Palestinian” violence against Israel’s Jews over the past six months.

From March through August 2004, Palestinian Arab terrorists carried out or attempted 420 attacks against Israeli Jews, killing 36 people. Another 175 people were wounded and maimed, many for the rest of their lives, during that same period.

" The New York Times is attempting to minimize Palestinian Arab terrorism, by falsely portraying such terror as something which is relatively rare,” the IMRA news agency quoted ZOA President Morton Klein as saying.

“The casualty figures for the past six months were lower than those for some periods last year, only because of anti-terrorist measures taken by the Israeli authorities, not because the Palestinian Arabs have stopped trying to murder Israelis,” Klein noted.

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