Nazis in the newsroom…..
Once upon a time the reporting of politically motivated events came to us from news correspondents well versed in the gamesmanship of propaganda. They knew who was trying to make political points and said so. Not anymore.
Case in vivid point: the reporting of the bloodbath in Gaza on May 15th, 2018.
I read with interest the front page story in the Toronto Star looking for the reasons why a so-called peaceful demonstration had turned up the bloodiest battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians in four years. I didn’t get the reason on the front page. What I got was a condemnation of Israeli forces who, we were told, confronted the many who came to demonstrate peacefully with tear gas, bullets and snipers. The story noted that some young Palestinian men brought knives and fence cutters. I turned to Page 4 still looking for something definitive about the reasons for the violence. Finally, halfway down the third column, the Washington Post reporters who wrote the story for the Star quoted a White House spokesman who said, “the responsibility for these tragic deaths (59 at last count) rests squarely with Hamas.” The rest of the story gave us no more insight on why the Israelis savagely attacked the peaceful gathering of Palestinians protesting the movement of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
But unless you are anti-Semitic or a moron you know the Star story courtesy of the Washington Post was incredibly incomplete. There was no mention in this story of the young men with Molotov cocktails, kite bombs, and other weapons to aid in the ultimate goal, “get inside Israel and kill some Jews” Numerous reports reveal that radical Palestinian groups, especially the terrorist group Hamas, planned the chaos and encouraged the violence. Photos and videos show a variety of weapons and explosives being used by the “unarmed, peaceful” Palestinians making the bloody scene more akin to war than a demonstration. Not appearing in the Star story were the words of a 23 year old Palestinian, Mohammed Mansoura, who told the Washington Post Hamas organizers urged demonstrators to burst through the fence separating Gaza from Israel!
“We are excited to storm and get inside”, he said. And then what, he was asked.”Whatever is possible, to kill, to throw stones.”
But the Star, The Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC–and the rest of the liberal mainstream media again gave us the familiar narrative: Israeli soldiers shot at and killed innocent, unarmed Palestinians who had arrived to demonstrate peacefully with their picnic baskets and children in hand.
The coverage of the “Riots at Zeitoun” May, 2018 tells me the spirit of Joseph Goebbels is alive and well.
The Nazis are back!
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Nazis in the newsroom…..
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Once upon a time the reporting of politically motivated events came to us from news correspondents well versed in the gamesmanship of propaganda. They knew who was trying to make political points and said so. Not anymore.
Case in vivid point: the reporting of the bloodbath in Gaza on May 15th, 2018.
I read with interest the front page story in the Toronto Star looking for the reasons why a so-called peaceful demonstration had turned up the bloodiest battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians in four years. I didn’t get the reason on the front page. What I got was a condemnation of Israeli forces who, we were told, confronted the many who came to demonstrate peacefully with tear gas, bullets and snipers. The story noted that some young Palestinian men brought knives and fence cutters. I turned to Page 4 still looking for something definitive about the reasons for the violence. Finally, halfway down the third column, the Washington Post reporters who wrote the story for the Star quoted a White House spokesman who said, “the responsibility for these tragic deaths (59 at last count) rests squarely with Hamas.” The rest of the story gave us no more insight on why the Israelis savagely attacked the peaceful gathering of Palestinians protesting the movement of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
But unless you are anti-Semitic or a moron you know the Star story courtesy of the Washington Post was incredibly incomplete. There was no mention in this story of the young men with Molotov cocktails, kite bombs, and other weapons to aid in the ultimate goal, “get inside Israel and kill some Jews” Numerous reports reveal that radical Palestinian groups, especially the terrorist group Hamas, planned the chaos and encouraged the violence. Photos and videos show a variety of weapons and explosives being used by the “unarmed, peaceful” Palestinians making the bloody scene more akin to war than a demonstration. Not appearing in the Star story were the words of a 23 year old Palestinian, Mohammed Mansoura, who told the Washington Post Hamas organizers urged demonstrators to burst through the fence separating Gaza from Israel!
“We are excited to storm and get inside”, he said. And then what, he was asked.”Whatever is possible, to kill, to throw stones.”
But the Star, The Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC–and the rest of the liberal mainstream media again gave us the familiar narrative: Israeli soldiers shot at and killed innocent, unarmed Palestinians who had arrived to demonstrate peacefully with their picnic baskets and children in hand.
The coverage of the “Riots at Zeitoun” May, 2018 tells me the spirit of Joseph Goebbels is alive and well.
The Nazis are back!
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