: Rachel O’Donoghue, United With Israel, July 13, 2023
By Rachel O’Donoghue, Honest Reporting
It took New York Times guest columnist Tareq Baconi more than 1,200 words and countless digressions to say what could have been distilled into a sentence: Tareq Baconi thinks Israelis deserve to be murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
Baconi, who serves as president of the board of al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, recently penned an op-ed for the so-called “newspaper of record” in which he discussed the recent counterterrorism raid in Jenin and what the military operation supposedly “tells us about Israel now.” Spoiler alert: nothing.
In the piece, Baconi does little to disguise his approval of Palestinian terrorists attacking innocent and unarmed Israelis, as in the third paragraph when he summarizes the events that preceded the operation in the West Bank terror capital:
At a Fourth of July event in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli Army had attacked ‘the most legitimate target on the planet — people who would annihilate our country.’ He was referring to months of armed resistance against Israeli settlers by young men in the Jenin refugee camp.”
So, what did these “months of armed resistance against Israeli settlers” look like? According to Baconi, such resistance takes the form of Raad Khazem, a 28-year-old from Jenin, traveling to one of Tel Aviv’s busiest streets and murdering three Israelis when he opened fire in a crowded bar. … Source
