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July 15, 2025

The “New York Times” Publishes an Unsubstantiated Slander of the Israeli Government

A lengthy, deeply researched article doesn’t prove what it claims to.

In a recent article, the New York Times Magazine asserts that Benjamin Netanyahu “prolonged the war in Gaza to stay in power.” Niranjan Shankar takes the argument apart piece by piece, showing that for all its careful research, it fails to back up its basic claims. For instance: the article implies that Netanyahu torpedoed a three-point cease-fire proposal supported by the Biden administration in the spring of last year:

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