Exposing Hamas’ Cannibalistic Cognitive War Strategy
In this case, however, journalists begin to show some signs of forensic awareness. To be fair, she to us, and we to them, both the NYT’s Jodi Rudoren and AP’s Karen Laub actually mention the anomalous evidence: the explosion was too small to have been fired from a plane; the clean-up crew visited the site before the journalists.
This is obviously a huge step forward over the Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg’s appraisal on October 1, 2000, of the wall behind barrel that Muhammad al Durah and his father had hidden behind, the previous day.
From Nahum Shahaf’s archive.
Told that the Israelis had fired “bullets like rain” for 40 minutes until they killed the boy, Goldenberg looked at the dozen or so bullet holes that looked suspiciously like they were shot from “head on,” rather than the 30% angle an Israeli bullet would have to travel to leave marks on the wall, and pronounced the cluster “proof that the Israelis had targeted the boy.”
Apparently, now, almost thirteen years later, some journalists have at least problematized the Israeli-Goliath/Palestinian-David framing story: maybe that doesn’t cover all the cases. It is, after all, a journalistic task to give us the relevant evidence. Obviously more investigation is called for, but thanks for the allusive scraps. Those who argued that Israel should have let journalists into Gaza for Operation Cast Lead (OCL) in 2008/9, because they would have provided quality control over the kind of footage that would come out of Gaza from unsupervised Palestinian “journalists,” have evidence for their claim in this kind of reporting.
Similarly, watchdog groups like NGO Monitor have read the riot act even to Palestinian NGOs, notorious for their anti-Israel advocacy brand of “human rights” defense. Notes Elder of Baker Street
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights , which is keeping track of everyone killed in Gaza (and which admits that most of the dead have been “militants,”) did not list Mahmoud Sadallah or Aiman Aby Wardah in their list of victims of Israeli airstrikes, although they even include one person who died of a heart attack.
Now not to grade elementary school students by too high a standard, but an alert journalist’s antennae should quiver at the comment, “no one appeared to have witnessed the strike.” In one of the most densely populated neighborhoods of “one of the most densely populated areas in the world”? No one noticed?
Omerta? Possibly. Probably, if it were a Hamas explosive. How many journalists or readers even think of the role of intimidation in shaping the news they get?
And yet, another datum corroborates this hypothesis: Laub informs us that “local security officials quickly took what remained of the projectile.”
Two questions: 1) Are we sure it was all “projectile”? What if part of it was the mangled body of a rocket launcher that blew up on the launchers, killing the neighbors, including the four-year-old boy?
2) Does one imagine all these cleaners did was run in, remove the item(s) in question, and leave without also informing those watching them not to speak about the event? Indeed, I wonder who was the brave person who reported about the clean-up crew.
The truth can be found in Chicago. And its not pretty
Rezko Update: Mystery man’s true identity revealed
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Didn’t that Mohammed guy, the spawn of the Allah-dude, say something along the lines of, “War is deceit.” ???
Islam is the millstone. If your plan doesn’t include the undermining, constraining or eradication of Islam, you don’t have a plan. What you have is a hope.
Not only are all manner of heinous acts tolerated, under the banner of jihad, but the Arab/Muslim relationship with blood is at the core. And herein lies the essence.
There is no clearer way to explain, the heretofore inexplicable, other than through this commentary and its embedded policy paper – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/13/islam-blood-a-groundbreaking-policy-paper-contained-herein-the-world-stands-on-a-precipice-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-109/
It has been circulating among requisite ‘think tanks’ and policymakers on Capitol Hill, and it is past time the western public jumped on board.
Knowledge IS power. Ignorance IS deadly.
These people keep saying that “we desire death more than you desire life”, so they should stop bitching when the Israelis give them what they want.
Thanks for the reminder of Annie Lennox and her antisemitic stupidity. I’m SO glad that I have all my favorite Eurythmics tracks on my faithful iPod, “Norman iPodhoretz,” and didn’t pay for a single one. Stole ‘em all off library CDs. Thanks for the free music, Ms. Lennox! You’re so generous! Maybe you can get some Arab-oil bribe money to replace mine. Meanwhile, the brave intelligentsia of Europe are ready to fight to the last drop of Palestinian blood…
Andrew Breitbart was right: The media are the enemy, everywhere, of peace, justice, prosperity, and civilization. G-d, I miss him. Meanwhile, antisemites pop up all over his sites’ comment sections whenever this sort of thing goes down. Is hating the Jews an airborne virus, or something in the water?
Pallywood is part guerilla theater, part propaganda. In the end, it’s just a lie in service of an agenda, and the media is a willing accomplice in the process.
I recall many years ago watching a news story covering a public funeral in Syria in which anger at the US and/or Israel by the crowd was a central element. My father, himself having grown up in Syria, pointed out the professional “wailers” – the old women in the crowd hired to express “grief”, pounding their chests, shrieking emotionally, shouting curses at the enemy. Like the Syrian wailers, Haniyeh and the Egyptian President, in embracing the dead baby, are engaged in theater, intending both to stir up the local crowd and win points via the “useful idiots” of the media.
The only thing that will work is using the lessons of the US Civil War and WWII. You have to break the civilians populations by proving that the governments in question cannot protect them.
My father commented that when he was in the Army of Occupation: “The Germans were beaten, they didn’t have any fight left.”
If Israel wants to win, they have to do the same. If not then they will have proven to be a people of principles and no character, caring more for their own self-righteous ideals than for the lives of their fellow citizens, and finally an enemy that will fight until beaten.
The NY Times seems to be buying the poor oppressed Gazana myth.
These people deem it honorable to have your little one die to “fight” against the Jews. Heck, these are the only people in the world that strap bombs on their babies and use them as shields. The “journalists” know this, they willingly choose to lie for their agenda. The islamists dragged Stevens through the streets of Libya just like this. And the picture is from Reuters — they know.
The similarities and tactics between the jihadist and the left constantly amazes me. They both share the same hatred for our traditional way of life and are devoted to its “fundamental” change and demise. Why more don’t see it amazes me even more. We are truly a stupid sheeple, who do not hear the screaming of the lambs as they are being slaughtered before our eyes, for the jihadist it is the will of God, for the leftist it is the will of Gov. Both are purveyors of poison, seeking to take hostage the heart and enslave the soul. One is religious and one is anti-religious, but both hold in contempt the individual and their independence. They are two sides of the same coin covered in the blood of the innocent. Evil has a face and it’s the face in the mirror, for who is the greater sinner, the one who does evil or the one who allows evil to be done?