I've finally done it--cancelled my subscription to the hard-copy version of The New York Times. It will in no way affect their profit margin, but I will no longer have to read it from cover to cover seven days a week in order to be able to comment on the layout or the size of their photos.

And So Be It.

I've put in my time; my jail cell is open to anyone who wants to serve a similar sentence of documenting the American version of Al-Jazeera.

No, it was not any one thing. There was no final straw. It was thousands of them. There were all the magazine covers that focused almost exclusively on the suffering of innocent Gazans, that used doctored Hamas photos and doctored Hamas numbers. And, most recently, they published a Sunday magazine cover story that extolled the virtues of New York City Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, at great length, and they followed that up the very next day with a long article that praised him even further.

Well, there was this: The other day, a NYT headline about a returned Israeli hostage put the description of the 'horrors' of his captivity in scare quotes, as if the 'horrors' were only his opinion, not necessarily real or true.

Yesterday, I watched several podcasts in which well-informed, fact-based truth tellers interviewed those who were utterly and completely brainwashed against Jews and against Israel. One such interviewer allowed an Arab hijabed woman to remain off camera. No matter what the interviewer said or showed, she rejected it as "Israeli propaganda," lies. In her view, there were no murdered Israeli babies on 10/7, nor had Hamas committed a massacre or kidnapped anyone. Her focus remained on all the allegedly kidnapped Palestinians being held in Israeli jails merely because they "resisted" the "occupation."

I have long pondered how such deep and total brainwashing can be de-programmed. It cannot be done if the brainwashed soul remains embedded in her own geographical region, or continues living among her tribe or keeps hearing Islamic sermons or watching Islamist media.

But how can one remove each and every Arab Muslim resident living in Yehuda and Shomron and in Gaza (just for starters) and keep each one apart from everyone else--and for many years? How can such a massive re-education process be done absent a total Israeli military victory? And then, what about the Muslim countries now tasked with keeping the peace in Gaza--Egypt, Turkey, Qatar (!!!)-- who've been subject to, and in the case of Qatar and Turkey, funders of, that same malign propaganda?

After a complete military victory: How high a wall must Israel erect over what would be the largest and best defended ghetto in Jewish history?

Psychologically, Muslim Islamists have been mocking Jewish history by mimicking and hijacking it in order to plead their very false case: From their point of view, Gazans have experienced a "holocaust"; Gazan and Arab Muslims have been raped, starved, and beaten; in Israeli jails, Arabs have been "occupied" and have been forced to live under "apartheid."

In one podcast, the off-camera Arab woman in hijab complained bitterly about the "checkpoints" that increased her travel time to her Israeli university. Her interviewer, an Israeli man, tried to remind her about what had led to such "checkpoints": countless bombings of buses, stabbings, etc., of Israelis by Arabs who had come from Ramallah, Jenin, etc. She did not know. She did not care to learn about this. What she said was that such murderous deeds were all "acts of resistance."

She did not care to note that she, an Arab woman, was enrolled in an Israeli university without any problem.

Always a joy to watch: Yishai Fleischer and Douglas Murray at the Oxford Union, and Moab Hassan Youssef, the Green Prince. (Please help me find the Israeli podcaster whose name I cannot recall and whose podcast I now cannot find).

P.S. I will still receive the digital version--it is somehow automatically bound together with other media to which I subscribe. Just as well. I must read the obits; the book review, if only in order to compare it to the Wall Street Journal's choice of books to review, as well as those of the London Review of Books and the Jewish Review of Books; and yes, their wedding announcements too.