Love of the Land: What The NYTimes Didn't Find Fit or, The Arab Easter Incident

What The NYTimes Didn't Find Fit or, The Arab Easter Incident

Yisrael Medad
My Right Word
04 April '10

A miracle! On Easter! A resurrection!

From the august and reliable New York Times:

A 14-year-old boy thought to have been killed either by Israeli gunfire or from internal Palestinian violence last week turned up unharmed at his family’s house after trying to sneak into Egypt via smuggler tunnels and being held by Egyptian security officials, his parents said Saturday.

The boy, Muhammad al-Farmawi, disappeared on Tuesday...[and] it was revealed that Muhammad, along with 16 other teenagers, had sneaked into smuggler tunnels to try to get into Egypt and was then picked up by Egyptian security forces.

“It was a very big shock for us,” Mr. Farmawi said. “We were told that he had been killed by Israeli fire and that his body had been left near the fence at Rafah,” in southern Gaza.

We?

Were told?

By whom?

Why would the NYTimes leave it out?

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Love of the Land: What The NYTimes Didn't Find Fit or, The Arab Easter Incident