Ethan Bronner Forgets ‘Operation Cast Lead’

Ethan Bronner, the New York Times' Jerusalem bureau chief

By Alex Kane

Ethan Bronner effectively erased the some 1,400 Palestinians killed during Israel’s brutal 2008-09 assault on the besieged Gaza Strip with this sentence from last weekend’s Week in Review in the New York Times:

It is worth noting that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been largely drained of deadly violence in the past few years…

In other words, the dispute is calmer than it has been in years

The “past few years” would seem to include what the Israeli military termed “Operation Cast Lead,” which refers to the invasion of Gaza in late 2008.  That war sparked worldwide outrage over Israel’s callous disregard for Palestinian civilian life.  In a landmark United Nations report on that assault, Judge Richard Goldstone, an esteemed South African jurist who is Jewish, concluded that “Cast Lead” was “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.”