U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman: Liberal Media Sides With Hamas Over Trump

David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said the mainstream media in America has picked a side — and it’s Hamas, not President Donald Trump.

He made the comments while reflecting on the media’s response to Trump’s opening of the U.S. Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJS3qdKTuM

Hamas spent the leadup to the scheduled opening creating as much chaos and turmoil as possible to draw attention to what its members called were the occupiers of lands they don’t rightly own.

And the press response was simply to underscore what Hamas said by presenting the terror outfit in a sympathetic light.

From Fox News:

This past Monday, the United States at long last opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. The opening occurred 70 years to the day that Harry Truman led the United States to be the first nation to recognize Israel as a sovereign nation. The event, authorized and directed by President Trump, was a moving tribute to the enduring and unique friendship between our nation and the State of Israel.

Moving our embassy, however, was not just an act of friendship. It was an act that Congress had endorsed. In 1995, both houses of Congress overwhelming passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act urging exactly this action. As recently as last year, the United States Senate re-affirmed the Jerusalem Embassy Act by a vote of 90-0. While past government leaders have argued, from time to time, that the embassy should only move as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians, Congress said no such thing.

Past Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama all campaigned on the pledge that Jerusalem must always be the capital of Israel. Clinton and Bush also promised to move our embassy to Jerusalem. None of them honored their word. President Trump made a similar promise, but, in contrast to his predecessors, he kept it.

The opening ceremony was a beautiful and uplifting event attended by hundreds and watched by millions. As the ceremony proceeded, there were a few sporadic, peaceful protests from among the hundreds of thousands of Arabs living in Jerusalem. The West Bank remained calm.

The apparent success of the embassy’s opening ceremony enraged the liberal media. Could this be yet another diplomatic triumph by President Trump? The prospect was unbearable.

Hamas to the rescue. These thugs, acknowledged nearly universally as a terrorist organization, had been rioting in Gaza over the past six weeks for purported reasons not connected to the embassy move. They were more than willing to provide the media with a dark side to an otherwise uplifting story.

For weeks, Hamas had been pursuing a direct and unambiguous operation against Israel: On Fridays, after stirring up emotions at weekly prayers, it incited waves of Gaza residents to violently storm the border with Israel, hoping to break through and kill Israeli citizens and kidnap Israeli soldiers. In addition, given the likelihood that these malign efforts would fail, Hamas also created “kite bombs” painted with swastikas that it launched in Israel’s direction when the winds were favorable.

No nation in the world allows foreigners to storm its border. Period. When the declared intention of the aggressors is to kill that nation’s citizens, it is laughable to even suggest that a forceful response would not ensue.

Regrettably, Hamas convinced impressionable young adults that the border had been breached and directed them to run all the way to Jerusalem and murder their enemies. Thousands unfortunately took up the call and entered harm’s way.

Some 60 Gazans, the overwhelming majority of whom were known Hamas terrorists, lost their lives because Hamas turned them into a collective suicide bomb. They were neither heroes nor the peaceful protesters they were advertised to be.

At least not before the liberal media entered the scene. Desperate for a narrative to discredit the president’s decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem, they broadcast the opening ceremony on a split screen simultaneously displaying the Gaza riots, and condemned the insensitivity of the ceremony’s participants to the carnage that seemed next door on TV but which in actuality was occurring 60 miles away!

The next day, the liberal media vilified everyone associated with the embassy move and glorified the poor Hamas terrorists. Failed diplomats who never brought peace or stability to the region were pulled out of mothballs to regurgitate their calcified thinking. And the most deranged even accused the administration of having blood on its hands. Tellingly, not a single pundit offered a less-lethal alternative to protecting Israel from being overrun by killers or its soldiers from being within range of pistols, IEDs or Molotov cocktails.

Let there be no mistake. Every life is equally precious, whether Jewish, Palestinian or other. But no nation should ever be called upon to sacrifice its own citizens to preserve the lives of aggressive infiltrators intent on murder and mayhem.

Ironically, Hamas had recently woken up to the fact that most responsible journalists were on to its game and Hamas was considering ending its suicidal assaults on the Israeli border. But seeing the opportunity to curry the front page or the A Block from reporters willing to shed a negative light on our president, Hamas enthusiastically launched its youth back into the fire. So who really has blood on their hands?

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felix1999

5 years ago

Notice NO Democrappers
attended the embassy opening in Jerusalem too.
Not one! The MSM always sides with Muslims and our enemies.

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aemoreira1981

5 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

So? Why bother traveling when there are more important stateside issues?

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Reply to  aemoreira1981

Well, it was a clear gesture against those who supported Israel.

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aemoreira1981

5 years ago

Reply to  R. Arandas

I don’t see it that way and question the intelligence and logic of those who do.

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Suresh

5 years ago

saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !

After facebook, twitter , even Google islamoofascist gang to suppress conservative
free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

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Rocinante44

5 years ago

team trump needs to sharpen their language. it’s not “liberal” or “mainstream” media, it’s the “democrat-muslim” media

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Clear Sky

5 years ago

It is normal. MSM always sides with Muslims against Christians and with the criminals against victims.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Reply to  Clear Sky

And against Jews as well, most liberals no longer seem them as “victims” so they are fair game.

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Liatris Spicata

5 years ago

One thing that I’ve not seen addressed in MSM, or anywhere in any depth, is the fact that there were no riots in territory controlled by the PA. Now Abbas et al are not big fans of the embassy move either, but they didn’t encourage riots (I think there was a “day of rage”, but nothing like what transpired in Gaza.

In pursuit of its power politics, Hamas set people up to be killed over the embassy move. MSM willingly went along with the narrative to blame Israel. That more Arabs- who were probably almost all non-combattants- were killed in Yarmouk outside Damascas the week of the embassy more was of no interest to MSM

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Andy Schuetz

5 years ago

Unquestionably the U S Media would crap in their own ‘mess gear’ in order to bash Trump.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

This is hardly shocking, left-wingers have always sympathized with our enemies more than our own nation and our allies, whom they attack day and night.

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Alleged-Comment

5 years ago

Anywhere these morons can control you they are attracted. From politics to media they are attracted to it like flies to a TURD and why everything STINKS!

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Michael Garfinkel

5 years ago

The message that every life is “equally precious” sounds cute in a fortune cookie, but it is an absurdity all the same.

I wonder why Geller felt compelled to say something so untrue.

Do we hold that the life of the psychopathic child-killer is as precious as the good Samaritan’s?

Of course not: we execute or imprison the former, and revere the latter.

It really isn’t complicated, so why get it so wrong?

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Mike McCallion

5 years ago

“with the advent of instant communication within and without the Hoi polloi the Profession of History must include current Chronicling, and the Profession of Journalism reestablish viable opinions.”

–Michael William McCallion Senior; -1940 ___

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