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"God gave us this land."
What a joke.
The speaker is David Wilder, one of those fanatically religious Jews in Israel who are the chief impediment to peace with the Palestinians.
The Record reporter who quotes him is Mike Kelly, whose story, "The Mideast that Christie never saw," dominates Page 1 today.
Same-old Kelly
Kelly basically is rehashing the columns he wrote on an earlier visit to Israel. When was that, six or seven years ago?
Editor Marty Gottlieb and head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes really know how to push readers' buttons.
Today, Kelly focuses on Palestinians in refugee camps, but in a totally unnecessary move, appears to be seeking "balance" by quoting ultra-Orthodox Jews, including Wilder.
Decades-old tale
This story dates to the dispersal of the Palestinians during the 1948 war that led to the establishment of Israel.
Since then, they have been pushed to the margins, forced to live in refugee camps and persecuted by Israel and Arab countries like Jordan, where Governor Christie spent a few days.
Why didn't Kelly write about the Peace Now movement in Israel -- Israelis who favor two states?
Why give a platform to radicals who have to invoke the Bible to legitimize their existence and their "settlements" in a secular state?
Solar plexus
Another story on A-1 today -- a rare instance when trees were cut down to put up solar panels -- gives a bad name to solar power.
Again, here's another negative story designed to push readers' buttons from a daily that has done a poor job of reporting the benefits of alternative energy, as well as solar loans for homeowners.
Sykes must be really proud of today's Local, which is devoid of any municipal news, except for the round-up on Web sites that leads the section (L-1).
Reporter leaves office
Can anyone figure out why Staff Writer John Cichowski wrote a Road Warrior column on interstate highway safety patrols?
The only good thing is that he appears to have actually left the office to report a story, rather than slavishly writing a column based on e-mails from readers.
Parade of bimbos
In Better Living, a story on Italian-Americans as reality stars gives a bad name to one of the biggest ethnic groups in the state (F-1).
The four shows should be renamed "Big Tits and Small Brains." OK. I'm open to suggestions.
Staff Writer Elisa Ung's column, The Corner Table, is missing today.
The restaurant reviewer is probably off indulging her obsession for dessert on a weekend that will see dangerously high sugar consumption.
Beef with industry
On the front of Opinion, an article about "pink slime" drives home the message that we have been sold crap by the nation's beef industry for more than 100 years (O-1).
Some of the practices described by Upton Sinclair in the early 1900s -- notably sending lame and diseased cattle to slaughter -- are still being used today.
All the more reason for Ung and other newspaper food writers to tell readers exactly what they are eating in restaurants and fast-food joints, and spend less time promoting chefs.
Untold stories
An editorial on the $75,000 cut in funds for the Englewood Public Library reminds readers that Sykes' assignment desk has never asked why a city getting tax revenue from scores of million-dollar homes, thousands of apartments and an industrial area is having financial problems (O-2).
Today's cover story in Travel is by Staff Writer James M. O'Neill, who writes about trying to save money while staying at the expensive Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
Amazingly, O'Neill and his family never tried Bahamian food in one of the local restaurants or sampled the word-famous conch salad.
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