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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo 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 Haaretz magazine is the revelation, toward the very end, that Brookss oldest son serves in the Israel Defense Forces.
Brooks 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: Brookss kid has been in for months. So when David Brooks was commenting favorably on Israels onslaught on Gaza this summer on National Public Radio, his son was serving in the Israeli army. Why didnt NPR tell us?
- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/surprise-brookss-israeli#sthash.X8r5eSA3.dpuf
nxylas
(6,440 posts)This discussion is now closed.
Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)it is pathetic
reddread
(6,896 posts)less artful perhaps.