The op-ed page of today's New York Times carries an article under the headline "The Palestinian Vision of Peace." The article, by Yasser Arafat, manages to go on at some length about the Palestinian Arab "vision of peace" without making any reference to or mention of the ship owned by the Palestinian Authority and staffed by its naval officers that was recently seized while smuggling tons of Iranian arms into the supposedly demilitarized Palestinian Authority. The article also claims that "The 1993 Oslo Accord, signed on the White House lawn, promised the Palestinians freedom by May 1999." The 1993 Oslo Accord "promised" the Palestinian Arabs nothing of the sort. The word "freedom" appears nowhere in its text.
Siding With Cuba: An article in the international section of today's New York Times runs under the headline, "Bush Hires Hard-Liners to Handle Cuba Policy." The article reports that one Bush aide had been placed into office "after Senate Democrats blocked his confirmation on the grounds that he had behaved unethically in the Reagan White House and that he was too partisan." It's funny how the Times is so sure that those were the grounds on which the Democrats were blocking the appointment. There's a tremendous lack of skepticism when it comes to the Senate Democrats, a lack of skepticism that would stop Times editors in their tracks if it were applied to the Senate Republicans. Imagine, for instance, if the Times article said, "after Senate Democrats blocked his confirmation on the grounds that he was too ardent an anti-Communist and they were so partisan that they wanted to deny the president a key foreign policy aide as a way to make his life more difficult."