Its just that they think if they throw the dog a bone, the Jews, they may be left alone. It only makes him more hungry. Bon appetit.

The problems with leftists rags like Haaretz are two fold: 1. Some of its material is downright treasonous. 2. Virtually all of its material is intended to demoralize Israel.

The answers are also two fold. 1. Enact Israeli treason laws with teeth and vigorously punish treason. 2. Patronize patriotic media that exists now and create more patriotic media. Israel could certainly use our own version of America's patriotic Fox News.

he is unable to think rationally or with honour.

everything for shoenken is looked at in the prism of western colonialism.
he forgets that present israel was a sovereign kingdom for a thousand
years, or that arab muslims had waged nine hundred years of
imperial wars and conquered the land of israel.and subjugated it.
the muslims built their mosque on top of the ruins of the two
jewish temples in a sign of religious conquest.
the ottoman muslims defeated the arabs and ruled on the land of
Israel for five hundred years. the ottomans were not sovereign in
the land of israel, but colonialists.
they refused jews the right to buy land, a religious edict.
they transferred to israel many muslims from among their
empire.
once the ottoman empire was defeated by the allies during
wwi, the league of nations set up the british mandate of palestine.

at no time was there a sovereign palestinian state.

If Schocken truly wrote this, this is nonsense. But I read Haaretz every day and I can tell you I never read such radical things (except by two famous journalists, famous for their radical thinking). Haaretz is a Zionist newspaper being attacked more and more by people who try to make him an enemy of Israel. This is very dangerous for democracy. Not only Haaretz is attacked, but the whole press is attacked for being "leftist". Moreover, the Supreme Court is attacked. Secularism is attacked. ONGs are attacked (whereas the far-right and nationalist Im Tirtzu can sleep well) - and I don' care if you or I agree with them or not, that's not the point: the point is democracy. Haaretz is a newspaper that fights against this dangerous trend and it should be supported. Their action is a fight for Zionism as well, because the powerful far right trend is destroying the State of Israel. What's more, Haaretz is fighting for your own freedom, dear Mr Yemini. You as a journalist should support those "traitors" because they are very good and smart Zionists. With a centrist like you, who needs a far-right ?