[ April 24, 2024 ]
A 23-year-old Gazan told the Washington Post that he was willing to do whatever it took to “storm and get inside” Israel, in order to take photos of the scene to send to mainstream media outlets to showcase the so-called plight of the “Palestinian” people and the atrocities of the Jewish nation.
And mainstream media’s response?
Go ahead — get us the photos, no matter the risk of bodily harm.
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The sad truth is much of the reporting is false.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW7JgK3ZyB8
And this, from the White House:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zbKswDoQlA
The Tablet offers a glimpse of what’s taking place:
“We are excited to storm and get inside,” a 23-year-old Gazan named Mohammed Mansoura, told the Washington Post yesterday. “When asked what he would do inside Israel,” the newspaper reported, “he said, ‘Whatever is possible, to kill, throw stones.’”
When Israel withdrew every last soldier and settler from the Gaza Strip in 2005, only the most hardened and bitter cynics predicted that the end of Israel’s occupation of 1.3 million Palestinians would bring even greater misery to Palestinians and Israelis alike. After all, the man who led the withdrawal, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was hardly a naive peacenik. The only way things could possibly get worse in Gaza after an Israeli withdrawal, even sober-minded people reasoned, would be if the Palestinians themselves chose leaders who were determined to sacrifice the welfare of every single person living in Gaza to a hopeless yet continuing campaign of cross-border terror against Israel.
Absurd, right? Sadly, that is exactly what has happened, leading to devastating wars in 2009 and 2014, whose failure led in turn to the recent decision by Hamas to launch a series of human-wave attacks against Israel proper. Since there is no state on earth that would allow its borders to be physically overrun by mobs including terrorists with explosives, the outcome of these attacks was clear: Hamas would lose.
To show its strength, Hamas was supposed to turn out several hundred thousand Gazans yesterday to rush the border and kill—or maim—Israeli civilians inside Israel. Instead, they turned out a mere 40,000 people—meaning that the majority of Hamas’ own membership in Gaza opted out of this insanity. By the gruesome calculus that Hamas has imposed on Palestinians and Israelis alike, the tactic of using innocent Gazans as human shields for attacks on Israel’s borders had proven to be a failure.
But Hamas won anyway, by giving the Western media the opportunity to juxtapose pictures of Donald Trump and his family with pictures of dead Palestinians. In exchange for those precious images, the media was more than happy to erase the facts that Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, that the attacks on Israel’s borders have been going on for weeks, or that Hamas is an evil, anti-Semitic, misogynist, homophobic, theocratic cult. The chance to bash Trump and demonize Israel was worth whitewashing any number of crimes—and the more Palestinians Hamas sent to die, the better the photo op.
Surely, no one could actually be that cynical and evil, right? Let The New York Times tell the story: “Israeli soldiers used tear gas and gunfire to keep Palestinian protesters from crossing the border fence with Gaza,” the Paper of Record reported to its 15 million followers on Facebook, “killing at least 52 according to Palestinian officials. 40 miles away, officials celebrated the U.S. Embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem.” In case you missed the ever-so-subtle storyline, the post contained two photographs, one on top of the other, the first showing Palestinians crouching in a cloud of black smoke, the second Ivanka Trump pointing to the new building’s cornerstone, prominently featuring her father’s name.
The Daily News took the story a step further with allegations of causality: “Dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at Gaza border, thousands injured in protests over U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem,” read the headline, cheerfully ignoring the fact that the “protests”—a troubling term for consistent assaults on a sovereign nation’s border orchestrated by a terrorist organization—have been going on for weeks now.
Even former CIA director John Brennan, who now spends his days on Twitter, bought in on the storyline of the day: “Deaths in Gaza result of utter disregard of Messers Trump & Netanyahu for Palestinian rights & homeland,” he tweeted. “By moving Embassy to Jerusalem, Trump played politics, destroyed US peacemaker role. New generation of Israelis/Palestinians need to isolate extremists to find path to peace.”
It’s not particularly surprising that Hamas, a murderous group that routinely uses civilians, including children, as human shields, would stage such a gruesome piece of theater, incentivizing tens of thousands of the citizens it had systemically robbed of a livelihood and a future by offering cash prizes to attack the Israeli border. But it is alarming that so many in the media and foreign policy establishment bought into this cynical and deadly provocation, pretending as if the riots had something to do with Trump and then chastising Israel for defending its borders from rioters who openly admitted that their goal was to randomly murder Jews. Were Hamas’ far more deadly wars in 2009 and 2014 caused by Barack Obama? Of course not.
The position that the mobs attacking Israel’s borders were “protesters” is an equally cynical lie. Just look at a snapshot of the day, as recorded by the IDF: Five explosive devices at 12:53 p.m.; another bombing attack five minutes later; six terrorists taking cover among the rioters at 1:15 p.m., opening fire at IDF soldiers; another shooting attack at 1:30 p.m., and another 15 minutes later, this time by eight armed terrorists; three explosive devices detonated at 2:09 p.m. That’s just one random hour out of the day. And it has nothing to do with anything save for Hamas’ repeatedly stated desire to eliminate the Jewish state. To suggest otherwise is to ignore observable reality.
That so many of our elites still fall into a cheap propaganda trap set up by a terrorist cult is dispiriting, to say the least. That they further the goals of a terrorist organization by furnishing the backdrop to its macabre and murderous theater is deplorable. But after 2005, and 2009, and 2014, it has become increasingly hard to credit the idea that anyone involved on any side is naive about the nature and consequences of their actions.
What’s truly disturbing about yesterday’s events is the idea that they were theater. In other words, that the press knows exactly what it is doing—that news organizations are knowingly partnering with Hamas, and gladly whitewashing the crimes of a ghoulish leadership in return for pictures that they want as much as Hamas does, and that they are happy to pay for in uncritical coverage and free airtime.
That kind of cynicism, at the expense of Palestinian lives, is truly breathtaking, even for the Middle East. And it makes us all complicit.
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22 Comments
5 years ago
Some things never change. For decades, literally for decades, the left and the various and sundry assorted anti Israel scum around the globe have banded together to chastise Israel for defending herself from an attack. While the media, good leftists that they are, have always leaned toward the Palestinian side, presenting Hamas killers as innocent victims and innocent Israeli defenders as villains, I’ve never seen the commie media here in America jump to the Palestinian side condemning Israel with such speed and conviction. If this doesn’t open eyes of those low info voters still wavering on the issue nothing will make it happen,
5 years ago
Investigative Report: Brennan Used FBI Agent Peter Strzok as Author For Intelligence Community Assessment and Placed Dossier Material into Obama’s Daily Briefing…
Posted on May 15, 2018 by sundance
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Some major reporting today from Paul Sperry includes very interesting details about how President Obama’s intelligence community structured their Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) about Russian interference in the 2016 election – SEE HERE –
In essence by following-up with various people involved in the construct of the ICA, journalist Paul Sperry outlines how CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, subverted their own intelligence guidelines in assembling the intelligence report.
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First, that Brennan positioned FBI Agent Peter Strzok as the contact between the CIA analysis and the information flow to FBI Director James Comey:
[…] A source close to the House investigation said Brennan himself selected the CIA and FBI analysts who worked on the ICA, and that they included former FBI counterespionage chief Peter Strzok.
“Strzok was the intermediary between Brennan and [former FBI Director James] Comey, and he was one of the authors of the ICA,” according to the source. (link)
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A second interesting aspect revealed in Paul Sperry’s reporting is something we discussed at great length surrounding the President Obama daily briefing material (PDB):
[…] “Brennan put some of the dossier material into the PDB [presidential daily briefing] for Obama and described it as coming from a ‘credible source,’ which is how they viewed Steele,” said the source familiar with the House investigation. “But they never corroborated his sources.” (read more)
More here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/15/investigative-report-brennan-used-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-as-author-for-intelligence-community-assessment-and-placed-dossier-material-into-obamas-daily-briefing/
5 years ago
Like lemmings, palestinians are very suicidal, they cannot be persuaded that life is better than death. so they get to be dead, suicide by self inflicted stupidity.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Muslims value DEATH more than life. Look at their oppressive lives. No music, no love, nothing! It’s dreary. Compare that to their imaginary view of “paradise” with orgies for eternity.
D
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
No offense to real lemmings, who are actually smarter than the Fakestinians.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
islam must be renounced
Every muslim thoroughly flounced
The qur’an is only hate
Violence leading to hell’s gate
Through it every muslim bounced.
5 years ago
The vast majority of the ordinary people reading these reports by the western MSM don’t think about what they’re shown or told, they just suck it up without too many questions if any at all.
As stated, the lying MSM has nothing to say about the fact that no Jews have lived in Gaza for the last 13 years, all left in 2005, neither do they mention that people protesting peacefully don’t need weapons, neither do those “peaceful” protesters attack a border fence with the intent to storm it causing death and destruction of civilians in Israel. Neither are the sheeple told how the IDF stated such behaviour would not be tolerated.
It’s also worth talking about why the worlds press takes no interest in the bombing of schools, hospitals and wedding parties in Yemen anymore than it talks about the situation in Ukraine or the willful genocide by summery execution
of Kurds by the new Ottomans under their despot Erdogan. Is this because Jews are not implicated ?
No, the western media betrays its agenda by its open hatred for Jewish people in the UK as well as in Israel.
You cannot please these people, the facts are strange to them, just keep doing what works because the government IN Israel answers only to the Israeli electorate and they decide what is proportionate because they’ve done the “bleeding” in the past when “miscalculations” were made by others NOT at risk.
As AfD says rightly in Germany – lying press. We all need a new truthful press.
5 years ago
5 years ago
Kill every last islamo, it’s the right thing to do.
5 years ago
This article is incredibly well written. Not that the NY Times, Bernie, Liz or Dianne would print or even read the article it should be forwarded to them.
D
5 years ago
Palestinians plan the deaths of their own people in advance. even before Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem.
NEXT MOVE: Put the Palestinians on the travel ban, in as many countries as possible!
5 years ago
Gee, with so many palestinians on the border, do ANY of them work, or do they all just rely on subsistence from the terror organization, hamas to fund them. Guess, working and earning a living is just not that important but, trying to take down Israel is.
D
5 years ago
Trump is putting AMERICA first, by supporting an ally in the WAR ON TERROR (Israel). Just like FDR was putting America first when he supported the British! LEND LEASE!
5 years ago
The most telling footage of all was the donkey cart being used a a litter bearer, and who knows if the “casualty” was actually injured in the first place.
Q: Why is there a fence around Palestinian cemeteries?
A: They are just dying to get in there.
5 years ago
Where are their leaders? Don’t hear about the paliSTAINian Leaders who are sitting back in an easy chair while the mindless peasants die.
5 years ago
It is a shame Washington is filled with Demoncraps who are communist and our “free speech” media are mostly run by communist and both abuse our Constitution making a MOCKERY of it.
Our experiment in governing is FAILING us. This is not suppose to happen and the Constitution was made to prevent tyrants and liars from ruling US.
5 years ago
Stop the Palestinian Insanity of Suicidal Martyrdom! Castrate them all at birth.
5 years ago
