NYT: Nostalgia for (Jewish) terrorism

The NYT's Deborah Solomon interviews Tzipi Livni and reveals her fondness for the Irgun:

Your parents were among the country’s founders. 
They were the first couple to marry in Israel, the very first. Both of them were in the Irgun. They were freedom fighters, and they met while boarding a British train. When the British Mandate was here, they robbed a train to get the money in order to buy weapons.

It was a more romantic era.

Now if the NYT has interviewed a Palestinian leader and the reporter had called, say, the 1970s era of plane hijackings or Abu Nidal's 1980s acts like the Achille Lauro hijacking, "romantic" do you think the editors would have let that fly?

Comments

[Kafka]

most definitely not, it's even more amusing how one can so easily replace key words in that interview and just as quickly be condemned for that publication instead of lauded as it is now in its current form.

[SP]

True true, but remember that this is Deborah Solomon and she seems to edit her interviews heavily for shock value and pure stupidity.

[Sam]

To be fair, taking it out of the context of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the image of bandits robbing a train is a standby of old Westerns and is in American culture a sort of nostalgic image for a bygone era. The image of hijacking civilian transportation does not at all have that same sepia tone to it. Not defending Soloman's stupid comment, but given as the above commentator said regarding her editing approach, it could be that her comment in context was less bizarrely inappropriate.