people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty." MB The New York Times' cowardness & subservience to Israel lobbyLast week Barghouti set out these demands in an op-ed article published by the New York Times, an act that shows the newspaper's can have a better side. The editorial note described the author as a Palestinian politician and Member of Parliament. It was a "courageous" act by the paper (which somewhat restored its standing in my eyes after it condemned Bashar al-Assad for using poison gas, without a sliver of evidence.)But" courage" has many limits. The very next day the NYT published an editor's note stating that Marwan Barghouti was convicted for murder. It was an abject surrender to Zionist pressure.The man who claimed this victory was an individual I find particularly obnoxious. He calls himself Michael Oren and is now a deputy minister in Israel, but he was born in the USA and belongs to the subgroup of American Jews who are super-super-patriots of Israel. He adopted Israeli citizenship and an Israeli name in order to serve as Israel's ambassador to the USA. In this capacity he attracted attention by using particularly virulent anti-Palestinian rhetoric, so extreme as to make even Binyamin Netanyahu look moderate.It was him, and not "a rash of readers that objected the distorted characterization of Marwan Barghouti's article, although Liz Spayd, its public editor implied.From Palestinian leader and parliamentarian, after the complaints, an editors note was appended the following day, stating that Barghouti had been convicted in an Israeli court on five counts of murder and membership of a terrorist organization.Of course, the NYT never adds such caveats regarding Israeli leaders who write for the newspaper, even when war crimes they oversaw are detailed by the UN or human rights organizations perhaps because the international impunity they enjoy means that their Palestinian victims never have their day in court.Its far easier for the paper to cite convictions in the colonizers courts than to highlight the misdeeds of powerful war criminals who evade justice. Endless debate? By contrast with its swift reaction to the Marwan Barghouti op-ed, the paper has still not corrected a clear error of fact about Israels wall in the occupied West Bank to which some fellow journalists alerted several times last month without no response. Both the public editor and the foreign desk ignored the rectification of that and other errors.The error was contained in an article by Russell Goldman on The Walled Off Hotel, a project by the British graffiti artist Banksy.According to Goldman, the windows of that nine-room guesthouse in Bethlehem overlook the barrier that separates the territory [the West Bank] from Israel.That is plainly wrong. The wall or barrier is not built along the 1967 boundary between present-day Israel and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem). Rather, it penetrates deep into the West Bank, cutting Palestinians off from their land.Overall, some 85 percent of the wall extends into the West Bank.Another article about Banksys hotel that the Times published in April was also misleading.Ian Fisher, author of that article, described the wall