Is it even possible to publish an article on the Palestinian state, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with objectivity and without emotions???? I am under the impression that there is nowhere in the whole international affairs realm where emotions get as much credit and political significance as in this conflict. Can we please remember that this is a political conflict? Could newspapers possibly stop to write novels and narratives about it and coldly analyze it?
Yesterday, May 16th, the NYT published an op-ed by Mahmoud Abbas titled "The Long Overdue Palestinian State" and beginning with "SIXTY-THREE years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/opinion/17abbas.html?_r=1&hp). The bias is not only obvious (look at the author of the article), but the article does not even try to hide this bias and uses emotions and the narrative of a poor child in order to gain sympathy without a concise, rigorous and intelligent political discourse.
Do journalists, journals, newspapers, speakers, spokespersons, politicians etc... feel like they are not allowed to talk about Palestine or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if no one cries while they do?
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