The NY Times, Israeli Athlete, and Dubai

Intimidate critics of Israel that is, not anyone on the court. Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer was recently denied permission to land in Dubai and compete in the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships. Poor her, she probably trains on some stolen piece of Palestinian land.

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The New York Times is furious, after all how dare any one say "No" to any Israeli. It in typical fashion the New Times once again writes a fluff piece related to how it is Israel not the Palestinians whom are victims. Then the Times calls for a boycott of Dubai because it refused her; this was a sports column so the Times could be more blatant than usually in their support for Zionism.

"For one thing, tennis does big business in American markets — think New York, Los Angeles and Miami — with large Jewish populations. The men, who follow the women to Dubai next week, may want to remember that, too, along with the companies that sponsor these events."

So here what the Times is saying: Peer was denied entry to the women's tournament, the men's tournament is forthcoming and if Dubai refuses to allow Israelis to compete well, then, Jewish American should go after any companies who sponsor the Dubai tournament until Dubai backs down and allows Israelis entry. A pure tactic of intimidation, something Israel's allies are pros at.

The New York Times and Shahar Peer both weep at the denial of any Israel to compete in just one tournament. But does the Times and this self-entitled tennis player have any sympathy for those Palestinians denied to play in any tournament by Israel? Where is the Times' self-righteous indignation for those Palestinians denied permission to leave the West Bank to they can compete? Zionist fanatics even launched an effort to prohibit the Palestinians from marching in the Olympics under their flag. They, the Zionist zealots, argued that allowing the Palestinians to march under their flag would be an endorsement by the International Olympic Committee of Palestinian sovereignty. At least Shahar Peer gets to compete somewhere. The Times' sports columnist calls for a Dubai boycott, would he ever call for an Israel boycott because Israel doesn't allows dozens of Palestinians the right to compete not only in overseas games but in Israeli games? No, of course they wouldn't. For the Times, their sympathy extends only to one people due to their racism against Arabs.

And look how stupid the Times' headline is: "A Political Swing at One Player Sours a Tournament for All." Because the New York Times loves Israel so much and is saddened whenever anything mis-fortunate happens to any Israeli, it assumes that they rest of the world is too. No, the denial of some Israeli player didn't sour the competition for anyone but the Times. They want to make it seem like some big deal and how we should all feel more sorry for denial of this Israeli athlete than the over 400 children Israel killed just a few weeks back. It was a well-played and well-received tournament, and most exhibitioners probably favored the boycott of Israel.