Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Creating a False Image of Israeli and Republican Insensitivity

Taking "moral equivalence" to a new extreme; multiple news channels use the split screen to show the staged and often real violence perpetrated by Hamas against the celebration in Israel of a new embassy.

Israel has legitimate security concerns and needs to protect its population. Showing the split screen/split images of the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem with the violent protests at the Gaza border is a victory for Hamas's propaganda campaign. One has nothing to do with the other. The US moved the embassy to an undisputed portion of Jerusalem. Hamas (a terrorist organization) is rushing the border with the hope of eliminating Israel and murdering civilians. Hamas’s cynical eagerness to exploit its own people should not be fodder for the news. All that smoke you see in the photos... that was created by Hamas to hide terroristic actions.

Where is the investigative journalism or the outrage at Hamas's use of human shields in the headlines? 

Hamas and the PA/Fatah share the position that all of Israel is occupied and only the elimination of Israel will satisfy them. Where the US embassy is in Israel is irrelevant to their interests.


See also: Hamas official: 50 of the 62 Gazans killed in border violence were our members  - Judah Ari Gross and TOI Staff (Times of Israel) Additionally, the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad had said on Tuesday that three members of its Saraya al-Quds military wing were killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis.