Critics of Coates’s approach might note that he did not meet with any of the various settler groups or members of Netanyahu’s government to get their perspective on things. To this Coates offers a stinging reply:Journalists claim to be hearing “both sides” as though a binary opposition had been set down by some disinterested god. But it is the journalists themselves who are playing god—it is the journalists who decide what sides are legitimate and which are not, which views shall be considered and which p
Source: Ta-Nehisi Coates Corrects the Record | The New Republic
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