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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a “Best Book for 2019.”

It was in Hebron where David became king of Israel, ruling for seven years before relocating his throne in Jerusalem.
A family dynasty that has guided “The New York Times” since the 1930s has made it a standard not to portray the Jews too favorably.
Historically myopic, ignoring millennia of Jewish history in Hebron, an author can only discern the “colonial backdrop” of a “land takeover” with “Jewish observance and forms of direct violence in order to erase the presence of an existing Palestinian population.”
New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger’s litany of criticism for anything of benefit to Israel seems endless.
Time will tell as to whether he embraces or rejects the palpable hostility of former U.S. President Barack Obama, his political idol, or forge his own path to more positive relations.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has not liberated them. Rather, like UNRWA, it has consigned them to permanent “refugee” status to justify its own existence.
The columnist remains as he was as a Brandeis undergraduate: yearning for Palestinian statehood and furious at Israel for its determination to rebuild a state within its ancient Jewish homeland.
For author Rachel Havrelock, the story of Joshua has been re-enacted in the West Bank, where “orientalist perspectives blended with biblical longings.”
The underlying issue is the right of Jews to inhabit their biblical homeland.