Not the Good Kind of Revisionism

The Boston Globe has once again cemented its position as the newspaper of the most liberal city on the East Coast. In the "Ideas" section this Sunday, under the guise of a book review, severe anti-Israel bias and at least one barefaced lie about Israel were published. The most obvious of these, of course, was the caption of the photo showing Israeli soldiers in 1948. The caption read:

Israeli soldiers during the 1948-1949 conflict. The Israelis enjoyed a decisive edge in military power and organization.

As any student of history knows, the "Israeli soldiers" at that time were mostly kibbutzniks, other settlers, and refugees from the Holocaust. They had to fight off Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, not to mention the Arabs of the British Mandate itself. Although one MIGHT be able to argue the idea that Israel was more organized, they were enormously out numbered, both in manpower and armaments. Tragically, this book was written by an Israeli. As Kahane taught us, the greatest enemy of the Jew is the Jew.
Chag Pesach Sheni Sameach