Subscribers to the New York Times received an urgent alert on their mobile devices from the world’s foremost journalistic enterprise on Tuesday morning: “While Israel has continued to decimate Gaza and its people from the air,” the Times reported, “its ground operation has been more incremental, and shrouded in secrecy.” The alert augments a growing body of evidence indicating that the Western journalistic establishment wants Israel to lose its war against the Hamas terrorist organization.
What the alert manages without a hint of self-awareness is to establish a moral parallel between the well-planned, multi-axis assault into Israel on October 7 — an event in which Hamas terrorists invented new levels of human depravity — and Israel’s response to that attack. It elides intent, insofar as Hamas sought as high a civilian body count as possible and Israel goes to great lengths — transparently and in independently verifiable ways — to avoid civilian casualties, despite Hamas’s efforts to put as many Gazans in the path of Israeli ordnance as possible. The article the Times alert was designed to promote complains about the opacity of IDF operations on the ground, which is a dog-bites-man story. Of course, operational secrecy is desirable. What the Times would prefer is either that Israel openly broadcast its movements, undermining its operational efficacy, or that it go into Gaza loudly and flamboyantly, which runs the risk of triggering a broader regional conflict. Either way, Israel loses.
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