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James Bennet

• October 14 -- Bush's "Rock-Hard" Positions vs. Clinton's "Mushy Middle Ground"
Bill Clinton, abortion moderate?

• October 6 -- "Arid, "Astringent," "Practically Growling" Cheney
James Bennet piles on the negative adjectives.

• August 16 -- Sharon’s “Hysterical Opposition” to Hope in the Middle East?
James Bennet’s profile of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon reveals more of Bennet’s pro-Palestinian tilt: “It was not so long ago that Sharon and his memories of blood were the stuff of history and hysterical opposition to everything that seemed hopeful….”

• July 16 -- Bennet's Bye-Bye to Israel: Dreaming of a Palestinian State
Reporter James Bennet, who's leaving the Israel beat after three years (and much pro-Palestinian bias), issues a sprawling two-part report from Palestinian-occupied land that makes for two days of front-page stories, lamenting the failure of Palestinians to move toward statehood.

• May 21 -- James Bennet, Unbalanced In Israel
Reporter James Bennet’s “Letter from the Middle East” takes evenhandedness to the point of setting up a moral equivalence between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists, lumping the groups’ conflicting claims into a general “fog of war.”

• May 20 -- Bush Almost Got Me Kidnapped.
Middle East reporter James Bennet survives an attempted kidnapping in the Gaza Strip--and suggests Bush policy could be to blame: "Anger at Americans has been building here for three years over the Bush administration's perceived tilt toward Israel, the occupation of Iraq and, most recently, images of prisoner abuse in Iraq."

• March 23 -- The "Perceived Threat" of Hamas?
Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the "spiritual leader" of the anti-Israel terrorist group Hamas, enables the Times to call Yassin a lot of names, among them "Icon" and "Perceived Threat"--but not "Terrorist."

• January 16 -- "Non-Violent" Terrorist Helpers in the Gaza Strip
James Bennet claims the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement "uses nonviolent tactics to impede Israeli Army actions in the West Bank and Gaza." But the group doesn't mind violence among its Palestinian allies.

• December 2 -- An Officially Unofficial Middle East Peace Deal
James Bennet's story on a "peace deal" touted by left-wing Israelis is accompanied by this photo caption: "Palestinian protesters yesterday tried to stop an unidentified delegate from going to Geneva to meet Israeli delegates and sign an official truce." But the treaty is unofficial--neither government is involved.

• August 13 -- “Charitable” Impulses Toward Hamas
James Bennet compares Israeli militant-turned-prime minister Menachem Begin to the terrorist group Hamas and becomes the third Times reporter to favorably cite the group’s “charitable” impulses.

• July 21 -- Anti-Israel Terrorism Would Have Been OK?
James Bennet writes on rising crime in Palestinian towns: “They were not masked men battling for the Palestinian national cause, just three thugs trying to kidnap a man off the street, apparently for ransom.” Would Bennet have thought better of the men if they’d been terrorists?