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Israel has detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya without charges for a year. Why has the New York Times refused to cover his case?

One year ago, an iconic photo from Gaza went viral of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya walking through rubble in Gaza to be detained by Israeli forces. Today, Safiya is still being held without charges, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the New York Times.

Commentary editor, a pioneer neoconservative, pushed Republicans, U.S. policy, and Christian evangelicals into a pro-Israel direction

Jewish Insider describes how Norman Podhoretz made Commentary magazine into a pro-Israel force that shaped American foreign policy in the Middle East; helped steer the GOP, previously hostile to Israel, to an “embrace of the Jewish state as a key ally;” while also forging and defending the rise of evangelicals who supported Israel.