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Rule 5: Tamar Bar-Ilan

Posted on August 27, 2014 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Tamar Bar-Ilan

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And another IDF sergeant paramedic in Operation Protective Edge.

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The lies the news media tells you

Posted on August 26, 2014 | Comments Off on The lies the news media tells you

Our political erosion might not be so bad if it wasn’t seconded (and sometimes led) by what passes for journalism these days. Forbes calls it the Media Intifada:

“*** The arithmetic of civilian casualties in Gaza is one of the principal media crimes in this war.  It became obvious weeks ago that major Western journalists routinely swallowed the huge civilian-casualty figures dished out to them by Gaza’s Ministry of Health, a bureaucratic arm of a terrorist group that was shown to have lied about such figures in past wars.  In some cases, reporters cite numbers instead from the United Nations, which gets its numbers from—surprise—the Hamas ministry, a dubious source of information, akin to relying on the Reich Health Office for German civilian-casualty statistics during World War II.  On many occasions, major American news outlets haven’t bothered to even attribute the numbers to either the ministry or the UN—simply reporting as fact that ‘most,’ or ‘the majority’ or the ‘vast majority’ of casualties in Gaza are civilians.”

And there’s much, much more. No wonder there are so many anti-Israel protesters and growing anti-Semitism. Relying on American and British newspapers and television they see the wicked Jews bombing Gaza while the pitiful Palestinians fight back with inaccurate rockets and the occasional precision mortar, never even realizing that the Palestinians started it all in the first place, just like they always do.

Thanks New York Times, The Washington Compost, CNN, BBC, and all the lazy little media sheep that follow them around saying ba, ba, ba.

Via Simply Jews.

UPDATE: Matti Friedman, a former Associated Press reporter/editor in Jerusalem tells all. The news media gets the story wrong because they intend to get it wrong. It’s their narrative: Israel bad, Palestinians good.

“Many of the people deciding what you will read and see from [Israel] view their role not as explanatory but as political,” Friedman writes. “Coverage is a weapon to be placed at the disposal of the side they like.”

Reminds me of an editor I once worked for who visited Israel not so long ago. He didn’t spend much time in Israel proper. He spent most of it in Ramallah, as a guest of the side he likes.

You can be sure Friedman’s former colleagues and their bosses will deny it all, but as a recovering journalist I can assure you her his analysis of the way the biz works is impeccable: The bigs decide what’s news, reporters follow orders to the letter or are replaced with ones who will. Easy-peasy.

MORE: Meanwhile, in Utah, a white teen is shot to death by a black cop.   Ferguson in different colors. Rioting? MSNBC, CNN, DOJ, Rev. Al converge? NYTimes editorializes? The president speaks? None of that. And you’re not one bit surprised, are you?

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Israel to Obama: Go To Hell

Posted on August 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Israel to Obama: Go To Hell

Despite their famous arguments over Gaza, Bibi apparently has yet to say the above to Barry in so many words. He should, writes Arutz Sheva columnist Ronn Tossarian, and publically because, among other reasons, it would show the anti-Israel crowd that the Jewish state is not dependent on U.S. foreign aid.

King Scold (also known as the Great Divider) and his creature Lurch obviously think that because of what money the U.S. gives Israel they can tell Jerusalem what to do—including demand a ceasefire with its existential enemy Hamas.

In fact, says Tossarian, U.S. aid amounts to just 1.5 percent of Israel’s economy and, by U.S. law, most of it “must be spent in the United States on the acquisition of American defense equipment, services and training.”

Israel could do without it and, for the present would be wise to do so, not only because of Washington’s current hostility (freezing arms in the midst of a war shows Obama cannot be trusted) but also because it would show the world that “Israel is not America’s child, nor a vassal state.”

It was Zionist leader (and popular novelist) Ze’ev Jabotinsky who wrote in 1911 that “..there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to – it is long overdue to respond to all current and future accusations, reproaches, suspicions, slanders and denunciations by simply folding our arms and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly answer,‘Go to Hell!'”

Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a protege of Jabotinsky’s, was more eloquent in 1980 when he responded in writing to Washington’s criticism of the IDF’s bombing of Iraq’s nuclear power plant, obviously intended to make nuclear bombs:

“Now you once again declare that you are punishing Israel. What kind of expression is this — ‘punishing Israel’? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of 14 who, if they don’t behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with ‘punishments.’ He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments.

“You have no right to ‘punish’ Israel — and I protest at the very use of this term.

“The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America — and it will continue to live for another 3,700.”

Of all American presidents and secretaries of state our current iterations (who, thankfully, will be out-of-the-business in 2017) need reminding of this.

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Rule 5: Yonat Daskal

Posted on August 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Yonat Daskal

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Another IDF staff sergeant paramedic in Operation Protective Edge.

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As the PR turns

Posted on August 23, 2014 | 2 comments

Let the jihadis of ISIL put a beheading video on YouTube and all sorts of strange things follow. Such as Hamas claiming that in future:

“Mashaal vowed that Hamas would, in the future, take measures to warn Israeli civilians of impending attacks, just as Israel does in the Gaza Strip.”

Although he (the handsome, impeccably-groomed Hamas bigwig who operates from a plush hotel in Qatar rather than share the risks with his underlings in Gaza) said it would be easier to do so once Hamas gets more sophisticated (i.e. target-able) missiles. Underscoring their future intentions, by the way.

All of which is mere public relations baloney, of course, but it’s interesting that Hamas is taking pains to distance itself from the ISIL throat-cutters—despite having executed seven 25 alleged Gazan collaborators (without any sort of trial) in recent days. Their unceremonious deaths undercut (so to speak) Mashaal’s “good” intentions.

Via Times of Israel and Simply Jews.

UPDATE:  I like Haaretz’s headline: “We wouldn’t target civilians if we had better weapons.”  Yeah, sure. Like the mortar (a very precise weapon) that killed the 4-year-old boy.

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The anti-Semites of the Dictator’s Club

Posted on August 22, 2014 | 2 comments

It starts at the top of the “democracy of tyrants,” aka the United Nations, where the Security Council now wants to erase 65 years and force Israel to negotiate peace based on the 1949 armistice lines.

This comes after Secretary-General Ban Ki moon decided to investigate Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza while noticeably ignoring Gaza’s rocketeers’ crimes and a host of other, more likely (even obvious) culprits:

“There is virtually nothing else that the United Nations seems to do.  No war-crimes investigations in Syria (110,000 191,000 murdered, some by poison gas and chemicals) or in Iraq, where Christians are getting crucified by ISIL and Al Qaeda thugs and cutthroats, even as other Christians are being exiled from their homes of a thousand years on pain of death.

“No war-crimes peeks around eastern Ukraine to figure out who murdered the passengers aboard a simple civilian airliner and then would not even allow Dutch officials to access the corpses of the slaughtered.  Rather, another farcical search for blood in matzah, four months since last Pesach and eight months before the next.”

That last is a reference to the medieval “blood libel” of the anti-Semites, who periodically (and increasingly, lately) charge that children are being purposely slain by the bloodthirsty Jews. The matzah part is there, it just isn’t reported.

The Security Council’s and Ban Ki Ludicrous’s concern is obvious. And it ain’t got nothing to do with the Arabs of Gaza,  Judea or Samaria. Is it any wonder the UN has lost the respect of most fair-minded people?

Via Arutz Sheva.

UPDATE:  The “progressive” British newspaper The Independent calls Israel a “child-murdering community.” Of Hamas’ use of children as human shields, of course, they say nothing.

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With Al it’s always about the money

Posted on August 20, 2014 | 2 comments

Al Bore, that is, the phony Green whose Tennessee mansion has more rooms than some hotels. Which makes the Global Warming blowhard’s carbon footprint bigger than Godzilla’s loafers. Who also really looks goofy in a Sheikh of Araby get-up, considering Halloween is still months away.

“Al Gore is a fake environmentalist who leveraged his Green cred to get special access that enabled him to set up a liberal news network that he then sold off to Qatar’s Al Jazeera, a tyrant’s propaganda outlet that pretends to be a news network.”

Qatar. You know, the financiers of Hamas, the terrorists who run Gaza?

Well, Qatar might like Hamas but they’re not so fond of Al. They allegedly stiffed him for millions when Al Jiz bought his liberal network. So Al is suing.

As Daniel Greenfield asks: What happens when one fraud sues another fraud for fraud? 

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