This is not reporting this is serving as the PR department for Hamas
How will there be justice in the region with one-sided reporting like this
Still more Hamas/ Palestinian spin in this follow-up article from the AP via their local enthusiastic print shop, The QC Times. AP employee Fares Akram writes:
Gaza hospitals struggle to cope with high casualty toll
As Jordon Chandler at The Patriot Post explains:
Palestinian ‘Demonstrators’ Aren’t Innocent Bystanders
Hamas is convenient cannon fodder, which explains the media’s assigning blame for violence elsewhere.
By now you’ve probably come across numerous stories describing the dozens of Palestinians who were killed in recent days at the hands of Israeli defense forces. The U.S. embassy officially opened in Jerusalem yesterday, so it’s no surprise that the ceremony coincided with violent opposition from thousands of Palestinians. The New York Times describes the antagonists as “demonstrators.” Likewise, The Washington Post used the term “protests.” But neither term accurately reflects what is happening on the Gaza Strip.
As The Weekly Standard editorializes, “In ordinary English usage, a protest is a collective action or gesture meant to bring pressure on a government or corporate entity. The Gaza ‘protests’ are meant to bring pressure on Israel, but they’re intended mainly to kill and maim both Israelis and the Palestinian ‘protesters’ themselves. These demonstrations would be better described as suicide-riots.”
Imagine if Mexican officials encouraged illegal immigrants to wield weapons as they attempted to infiltrate the border wall near San Diego. That’s basically what’s happening in Israel. As the editorial explains, “For nearly two months, Hamas and other militant factions have been encouraging young Palestinian men to storm the fence separating Gaza from Israel. The rioters cut holes in the fence, charge Israeli guards with crude weapons like axes, and lob fire bombs over the wall in attempts to set Israeli fields on fire. Hamas has pledged to massacre those on the other side of the fence, and these riots are expressions of that intention. Israeli defense forces are obliged to respond with force.”
Death is unavoidable in such circumstances. And guess who gets blamed? The Israelis. “This is Hamas’s longstanding strategy,” opines The Weekly Standard. “The more Palestinian young men die, the more hellish the conditions of Palestinian neighborhoods, the more sympathy aroused in Western media.” On that last note, Erick Erickson,observes, “The media is a knowing accomplice in helping a terrorist group push out its propaganda.”
Hamas is a sinister group of Islamic terrorist provocateurs. But Hamas is also convenient cannon fodder, which explains the media’s sordidly empathizing with it and assigning blame elsewhere. When it comes right down to it, the Leftmedia and most Democrats believe that the Israelis lack sovereignty over Jerusalem. Therefore, their resentment extends not just to the Israelis but to Americans who join them in defending Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The headlines are replete with Palestinian deaths. But those deaths are self-inflicted. Israel’s restrained military might says enough.
Rich Lowry adds (also via Patriot Post):
The notion that the City of David isn’t the capital of Israel was an impolite fiction, honored by the U.S. and the West for fear of provoking Arabs hostile to the very idea of the Jewish state. Its prime minister, parliament and highest court are based there, and it’s unimaginable that Israel would ever agree to any peace deal that didn’t recognize it as the capital. The tired, conventional arguments against it haven’t held up well in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to move our embassy. The Arab street hasn’t exploded. The West Bank has been relatively quiet. Arab capitals haven’t erupted in outrage. The flashpoint has been in Gaza, the terror statelet ruled by Hamas. Israel pulled out of Gaza more than a decade ago and has been rewarded with constant attacks emanating from a territory where the infrastructure of mayhem and destruction — rockets, tunnels and the like — is the only growth industry. Hamas has goaded rioters to storm the Israeli border, defended by Israeli soldiers who fire on them if necessary to protect local communities (more than 50 were killed on Monday). This isn’t ‘the caravan’ that arrived at the U.S. border with peaceful migrants seeking asylum but a violent provocation that is a function of Hamas’ commitment to Israel’s destruction. For now, that poisonous ambition looks more fantastical than ever. Trump’s move is an acknowledgment of reality. It is also a symbolic statement of permanence, that Menachem Begin was correct when he said at the ceremony for the Bar Kokhba rebels 36 years ago, ‘Glorious fathers, we are back and we will not budge from here.’
And Nikki Haley US Ambassador to the UN points out
This related item “post our post” from Gary Bauer at American Values :
And this is appropriate to add to our comment yesterday
The Iran Deal Wasn’t An ‘Alternative To War,’ It Was A Continuation Of War
The regime merely took advantage of an Obama administration willing to appease at all costs to make Iran the ‘strong horse’ in the Middle East.
