{"id":82021,"date":"2020-11-15T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82021"},"modified":"2020-11-08T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T05:19:43","slug":"15-05-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82021","title":{"rendered":"Three New York Times Pieces on Whether Trump Kept Promises All Ignore Jerusalem Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Three New York Times Pieces on Whether Trump Kept Promises All Ignore Jerusalem Embassy<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ira Stoll<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters \/ Carlo Allegri \/ File.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An election-eve assessment by\u00a0The New York Time<\/em>s about whether President Donald Trump had kept or broken his campaign promises entirely ignored Trump\u2019s following through on his pledges to exit the Iran nuclear deal and move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article appeared in print on November 1 under the headline \u201cDid the President Keep His First-Term Promises?<\/a>\u201d It\u2019s a reasonable question \u2014 the sort of question that undecided voters headed to the polls in what turned out to be a close contest might have wanted to have answered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0article goes on for more than 1,800 words without the word \u201cIran\u201d or \u201cJerusalem.\u201d The article is without a single mention of two kept foreign policy promises that pro-Israel voters, including Jewish voters, might care about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump himself used his Republican National Convention\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0accepting the nomination to remind voters that he had kept those promises: \u201cI withdrew from the terrible one-sided Iran nuclear deal. Unlike many presidents before me, I kept my promise, recognized Israel\u2019s true capital and moved our Embassy to Jerusalem. But not only did we talk about it as a future site; we got it built. Rather than spending $1 billion on a new building as planned, we took an already owned, existing building in a better location. Real estate deal, right? And opened it at a cost of less than $500,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Did the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reporters miss the Trump speech?<\/span><\/p>\n

One doesn\u2019t need to be some kind of right-wing or Jewish media outlet to acknowledge Trump\u2019s follow-through on these issues. When Trump withdrew from the Iran deal,\u00a0NBC News<\/em>\u00a0reported it under the headline \u201cTrump kept his promise on Iran. But was it the right promise?<\/a>\u201d The\u00a0NBC News<\/em>\u00a0analysis by Andrea Mitchell began, \u201cAs he announced the end of the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, President Donald Trump told the nation, \u2018When I make promises, I keep them.\u2019 And he did, in fact, campaign on a promise to tear up the deal on Day One (though the action actually came on Day 474). The sense that the president was keeping a promise to his political base was made very clear in a statement quickly issued by the Trump re-election campaign, headlined: \u2018A Promise Kept on the Iran Nuclear Deal.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of Jerusalem or Iran, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0article focuses on the border wall with Mexico, cutting taxes, appointing conservative judges, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act and renegotiating trade deals.<\/span><\/p>\n

This effort was the third such attempt by the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0in recent months to check on whether Trump has kept his promises. A September opinion column by Nicholas Kristof was headlined \u201c\u2018I Keep My Promises,\u2019 Trump Said. Let\u2019s Check.<\/a>\u201d It billed itself as \u201ca report card on whether the president met his 2016 campaign pledges.\u201d That column, too, ignored both the Iran nuclear deal and the Jerusalem embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n

An October\u00a0episode of the Times podcast \u201cThe Daily\u201d<\/a>\u00a0also tackled the promises-kept question. \u201cWe look at whether Mr. Trump has made good on his commitments from 2016,\u201d is how the episode was introduced. The podcast did, to its credit, acknowledge, \u201cHe pulled us out of the Iran nuclear accord, which was meant to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for them promising not to build a nuclear weapon.\u201d That podcast, however, entirely ignored the Jerusalem embassy move, too. \u201cThe Daily\u201d host Michael Barbaro did acknowledge what he described as \u201ca fairly long and meaningful list of promises kept.\u201d That\u2019s better than the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0news article, which only offered, \u201cIn reality, Mr. Trump has broken about half of 100 campaign promises, according to a tracker by PolitiFact.\u201d The tracker handles the Iran deal by describing it as a broken promise to renegotiate the Iran deal, which is a strange way to handle it \u2014 and the opposite of how \u201cThe Daily\u201d podcast handled it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is it too much to ask the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0to serve readers who might care about these promises? It seems like just the most recent example of the Times\u2019 weird blind spot when it comes to Jewish issues. I can understand why the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0would prefer to forget or omit the Jerusalem embassy move, to pretend it never even happened. The newspaper looks silly, because the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0predicted the move would cause violence and prevent peace. In fact, peace agreements have ensued. In the run-up to an election, though, voters deserved straightforward and complete information to make informed decisions, not news tilted or filtered to avoid embarrassing the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0for its past mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ira Stoll<\/strong> was managing editor of\u00a0The Forward\u00a0and North American editor of\u00a0The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular\u00a0Algemeiner\u00a0feature, can be found\u00a0<\/em>here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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