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From the headline, a New York Times piece on Doctors Without Borders in Gaza appears to paint a worrying picture of Israel’s approach toward the influential humanitarian agency. But the text, masquerading as professional journalism, is little more than an echo chamber for the propaganda of a powerful NGO.
Draped in anecdotes of suffering Palestinian patients and heroic physicians from Doctors Without Borders (also known as MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières), the January 17 article – titled “Inside the Doctors Without Borders Clinics that Israel Is Closing in Gaza” – seeks to guide readers to an ostensibly inescapable conclusion: that new Israeli regulations for humanitarian NGOs like MSF condemn civilians to needless misery.
