MSM & Israel: What's Old is New Again...........by Dan Friedman

Jerusalem Post columnist Sarah Honig reminds us in this piece that “Almost every demonizing and delegitimizing canard to which we have by now grown so inured had already manifested itself back in 1958.”

Honig’s exhibit A is this adversarial interview with the dovish Abba Eban conducted in 1958 by Mike Wallace. Only ten years earlier, Israel had miraculously, but narrowly, defeated 5 Arab armies intent on destroying the young state when she had just left the womb. Apparently, that was time enough for big media to dry its eyes and revert to type, because here we have Wallace (a passing Jew) in the vanguard, beta testing the same allegations, distortions and arrogance we are all used to seeing in the loathsome MSM today.

Dan Friedman
NYC