In the New York Times, of course, Jodi Rudoren has another one of her now trademark gushing pieces on a “heroic” symbol of the “noble Palestinian resistance”. The poor little 17 year old stone thrower.

Update, Arnold Roth sends me the following:

How sentimental – or acceptable in terms of journalistic integrity – is it that the Rudoren article describes the deaths of “a man and his 1-year-old son who died” (in fact Asher Palmer and his son Yonatan) without saying the ring leader of the gang hurling the “stones” was convicted of murder? And others from the same gang are on trial on similar charges?

The killer is Wa’al Al-Araja and understanding his story is key to putting the morality tale of the “Abu Hashem boys” and their “hobby” into a grown-up context.