Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hammered the New York Times on Tuesday after they “recanted” for their printing of an op-ed Monday from prominent Fatah official and convicted murderer Marwan Barghouti.
The Times of Israel spotlighted Netanyahu’s remarks in a Tuesday item. The Israeli leader replied to the opinion piece from Barghouti during a visit to the city of Dimona.
“I read, on Sunday, the article in the New York Times that presents arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti as a ‘parliamentarian and leader,'” Netanyahu disclosed. He added, “Calling Barghouti a leader and parliamentarian is like calling [Syrian President Bashar] Assad a pediatrician.”
The newspaper noted that someone in the audience replied that Assad was actually educated as an ophthalmologist.
Netanyahu continued that “[the New York Times] retracted it because we pointed [the error] out to them.” In fact, the paper of record did not retract the piece, but added an editor’s note.
The Israeli prime minister added, “The [jailed individuals] are murderers and terrorists. We will never lose our sense of
Netanyahu also repeated his anti-New York Times remarks in a series of Twitter posts on Tuesday.
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