The hyperventilating about almost everything has come home to roost at the New York Times. Unlike Bill Donohue the Times doesn't hypervent fives times a day, not even five times a week. But the criss-cross of Occupy Wall Street, Israeli settlers, and what seems like an emerging Occupy Israel collided over the last couple of days.At the Daily Forward, J.J. Goldberg takes the Times to task for two recent opinion pieces, one on Israel and gay rights and a second on West Bank Settlers moving to Israel to give Israeli Arab citizens a hard time.At Mondoweiss, Alex Kane gives Kalle Lasn of Adbusters and OWS a chance to ventilate on charges/hints/insinuations in the Times that the movement is Anti-Semitic.May seem vitriolic to some of you, but it is heartening to see the Jewish community duking it out on world-important issues.And the indispensable Ha'aretz reports on Netanyahu and Lieberman duking it out on releasing the Palestinian Authority funds to--well the Palestinian Authority: " The issue of the tax revenues transfer to the PA has been a classic example of Netanyahu's modus operandi over the past three years. First, he balks at making a decision; then, he comes under political pressure from Lieberman and is dragged into making a decision he doesn't really like; thereafter, he takes heavy flak from abroad; and finally, he returns to the original decision but fails to receive any credit for it."

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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