NYTIMES SHOWS ACCURATE PHOTOS OF PRECISION TARGETING BY IDF IN BEIRUT - but typically distorts the rest of the story

NYTIMES:

In the days since Israeli planes began to bomb Lebanon, this seaside capital has been almost physically split in two, with its largely Shiite flank mutilated by Israeli airstrikes and most of the rest of the city remaining relatively unscathed, if quieter and emptier than usual.

The stark physical contrast reflects a deep and growing divide in Lebanese society between the less affluent, more religious Shiite south and the more urban center, largely of Sunni Muslims, Druse and Christians, which has built and benefited from a long-awaited economic boom.

The PICTURE is correct; the explanation is lacking.

First of all the LEFTIST NYTIMES is blind to the fact that the reason the Shia south has been POOR is because THEY ARE RULED BY HIZB'ALLAH ISLAMOFASCISTS AND LACK LIBERTY, AND PROSPERITY IS THE BY-PRODUCT OF LIBERTY! Second of all, they blame the south's poverty on Israeli occupation. BAH HUMBUG! The IDF - which entered Lebanon to EXPEL ARAFAT - and the IDF's Christian Arab allies - kept the peace. And the article calls Hizb'Allah "homegrown" as if they could have tyrannized Lebanon without Iran's and Syria's aid. BS!

The NYTIMES is forced to admit what all eyes can see: THE IDF HAS BEEN ATTACKING HIZB'ALLAH, AND NOT LEBANON. But the NYTIMES denies all else - spinning Lebanon's north-south divide as if it were merely an example of class warfare:

While the bombing has forced thousands of southerners, mostly Shiites, to flee for their lives on roads with broken bridges, often without any possessions, many middle-class residents of the capital have taken refuge in mountain towns just north and east of here.

This is Leftist spin, pure and simple, and it is typical of Leftists who are in deep denial about the harmful basic nature of their anti-libertarian ideology. North Lebanon is richer than the south for the same reason south Korea is richer than north Korea. Liberty and pluralism create propserity. Tyranny - of all sorts, Marxist. Baathist; Shia, etc. - creates poverty.

And of course - like the rest of the MSM - the NYTIMES ignores the fact that a hundred thousand ISRAELIS have been forced to flee their homes, too - just like the "poor Shias."

This reveals, once again, that the NYTIMES is basically Leftist and anti-Semitic. But at LEAST THIS TIME, they got part of the picture correct: The IDF is ONLY attacking Hizb'Allah. RTWT and look at the photos; their stark contrast has more truth in it than a all the articles in the NYTIMES combined. [More on NYTIMES anti-Semitism HERE.]