Netanyahu: Haaretz, NY Times Enemies of “Israel”

A year ago, "Israel's" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas, Iran and Richard Goldstone were "Israel's" zealous enemies. Revising his assessment one year later, a dramatic change of opinion he revealed as he said that "Israel's" greatest enemies are Haaretz and the New York Times. 

The news, which was revealed by the editor of The Jerusalem Post Steve Linde, was quickly denied as Netanyahu rushed to decline the information. 

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency [Jerusalem Post] editor, Steve Linde, addressing a conference in Tel Aviv of the Women's International Zionist Organization on Wednesday, said that Netanyahu made the remark to him about the newspapers at a private meeting "a couple of weeks ago" at the prime minister's office in Tel Aviv.

The source quoted Linde as further explaining [according to a recording of the WIZO speech provided to JTA] "He said, ‘You know, Steve, we have two main enemies."
He added "And I thought he was going to talk about, you know, Iran, maybe Hamas. He said, ‘It's The New York Times and Haaretz.'

He said, ‘They set the agenda for an anti-Israel campaign all over the world. Journalists read them every morning and base their news stories ... on what they read in The New York Times and Haaretz.' "

According to the recording, Netanyahu told the participants of the media that he "absolutely" believed that media could have such strong effect on world opinion regarding "Israel".