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One of my readers said that such a lawsuit is underway. I have no idea if this is true.

Here I sit, head bent, at my desk. After shootings, stabbings, lootings, serious train delays, outages, failures, unbearable heat, and poor air quality--finally, today is a cool, gray, and (so far) relatively quiet day in New York City. (Not counting the sounds of construction, police, ambulance, and fire-department sirens.)

But it's far from quiet in my head. I've dared to repeat my one daily really Bad Habit. I've read the first A section of the NYT. It is obscenely obsessed with Israel's wrongdoing and with Gaza's suffering. It should rename itself: The Anti-Zionist Times.

Today, two-and-a-half full pages of the Paper of Record are devoted to this subject. That amounts to 6,043 words. Well, it's something of an improvement; on June 27th of this year, the word count about and against Israel amounted to 9,258 words.

Why do I bother writing about this? Because this is precisely how brainwashing works. The same narrative, the same meme, is repeated day after day, month after month, year after year until the captive (audience) has been fully indoctrinated.

Anyone who is not expert in the history, geography, archeology, languages, customs of both Israel and the Arab Middle East; not expert in the Blood Libels that have led to every anti-Jewish pogrom, every anti-Jewish exile, even to the slaughter of six million by a Nazified (and an indifferent and fearful) world--will soon enough come to believe that the suffering in Gaza far, far outweighs any and all suffering in the entire world, and that Israel is, quite possibly, the most evil country on earth.

Today, there are seven articles and one letter in the NYT that focus on this one subject. As usual, the lead story on page A1 is titled: "Gaza Hunger Gives Trump Familiar Test." It continues on page A7 for 3/4th of the page.

But that's not enough. Also, on page A7, there are two articles on this very subject: "Hochul, Staunch Ally of Israel, Condemns Suffering of Children." The article quoted Zohran Mamdani's position on "globalize the Intifada"--his "rallying cry for Palestinians opposing Israeli occupation."

Even that's not all folks. An additional article on page A7 is titled: "Flurry of Changes in Map of Palestinian Recognition." This depicts the countries that do--and do not--recognize "Palestine," a country that has no government, no infra-structure, no sovereignty, and no clear boundaries. These other countries are recognizing an idea--and the idea is meant to eliminate the Jewish state.

In case the anti-Zionist message has not sunk in, we have another full page--A8. These three articles are titled: "Fury at Gaza Starvation Further Isolates Israel;" "What Food Costs in Gaza--If You Can Find It;" and "U.S. Envoy to Visit Gaza Aid Sites After Talks in Jerusalem."

But even two full pages are not enough for the NYT today. On page A22, there is an op-ed piece titled: "What Iranians Lost When Israel Bombed Evin Prison." Israel is blamed for throwing the theological dictatorship "into a panic" and for "setting back decades of fragile gains in the civil rights struggle."

Finally, on page A23, there is a letter titled: "A Forever War in Gaza?"

The entire world is drenched in blood, famine, environmental disaster, torture, an absence of medical care, housing, normalcy.

While exact numbers of those killed or wounded in battle, including civilians, cannot be totally trusted, estimates of Ukrainian troops fighting a war of self-defense against the aggressor, Russia, range from 60,000--100,000 to date. Ukrainian civilians, including children, women, seniors, have been kidnapped, tortured, and held captive as have Ukrainian troops. Infrastructure has been destroyed, environmental dangers are serious.

And yet, the NYT does not focus on Ukraine in the same way it does on Israel/Gaza. There's more: Some websites actually attribute the deaths of Ukrainian adults, whether civilian or soldiers, to alcoholism, smoking, and other harmful habits. In other words, previously self-caused, debilitating conditions do not do well under war-time conditions.

The ongoing death tolls in civil wars in Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo can only be estimated. Some reports declare that there have been more than six million deaths in the DRC since 1996. Famine exists in Sudan and in the Congo.

I wish that the readers of the NYT and of all the other many mainstream media sources that traffic in Jew hatred and anti-Zionism would even briefly consider such facts as they continue to bathe in the fetid waters of lethal lies.

We cannot afford to underestimate the damage that sustained brainwashing has caused in families, work environments, social settings, and on the streets.