New York Times Journalistic Bias

The photo accompanying a New York Times' TV-film review showed the smiling face of Ahlam Tamimi. Underneath it, the caption read: Ahlam Tamimi in a scene from the HBO documentary 'Hot House.' Ms. Tamimi is among about 10,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails. What the Times failed to inform readers was that this young, cheerful-looking woman was the unrepentant female terrorist who assisted in the suicide bombing of a pizza shop which killed 16 people, mostly teenagers and children. She smuggled explosives in a guitar case into Jerusalem and helped provide cover for a fellow terrorist who used the bomb to murder those who stopped by the Sbarro Pizzeria for lunch, including 15 year-old Malki Roth. Upon seeing the smiling photo of one of his daughter's murderers in the New York Times, Arnold Roth, Malki's father, wrote to the Solomonia blog, pointing out that "neither the New York Times nor HBO are likely to give even a moment's attention to the victims of the barbarians who destroyed the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and the lives of so many victims" More.