No Surprise Dep’t: The New York times' David Brooks’s son is in Israeli army
not news, but in case you missed this:
One of the more interesting nuggets buried in a long, Hebrew-language interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks in the recent Ha’aretz magazine is the revelation, toward the very end, that Brooks’s oldest son serves in the Israel Defense Forces.
“Brook’s connection to Israel was always strong,” the article reports. “He has visited Israel almost every year since 1991, and over the past months the connection has grown even stronger, after his oldest son, aged 23, decided to join the Israel Defense Forces as a “lone soldier” [Ed. Note: a soldier with no immediate family in Israel].
This is now the third Times reporter/writer whose son has gone into the Israeli Defense Forces.
My bone to pick: Brooks’s kid has been in for “months.” So when David Brooks was commenting favorably on Israel’s onslaught on Gaza this summer on National Public Radio, his son was serving in the Israeli army. Why didn’t NPR tell us?
- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/surprise-brookss-israeli#sthash.X8r5eSA3.dpuf
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it is pathetic
