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[Order a copy of Robert Spencer’s forthcoming book, Muhammad: A Critical Biography, by clicking here.]
The Biden regime has by now made it abundantly clear which side it’s on, and it’s not on Israel’s. Thus the spectacle of Ditz-In-Waiting Kamala Harris lamenting the deaths of the poor Palestinian terrorists who were killed in the raid to rescue four Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday was revolting, but not shocking.
Nor did the establishment media, which for years has been a relentless anti-Israel propaganda machine, come up with any surprises in its focus on the alleged casualty figures involved in the hostage raid. This time, however, the propaganda rang even more hollow than it usually does, for amid all the claims of the deaths of “innocent civilians” in Gaza, it is clear that a good many of those “civilians” played an active role in the holding of the hostages.
Harris shed her tears for the terrorists during a Saturday speech to the Michigan Democratic Party, a well-chosen audience for piling on Israel yet again. Speaking about the hostages, Harris, according to Fox News, “celebrated their retrieval but spent more time lamenting the deaths of Palestinians killed in the operation, many of whom Israel has described as terrorists.” Well, sure. After all, the Biden regime isn’t in Michigan to court the Jewish vote.
“Before I begin,” Harris said, “I just say a few words about the morning which I know weighs heavily on all of our hearts.” She started off reasonably well: “On Oct. 7, Hamas committed a brutal massacre of 1,200 innocent people and abducted 250 hostages. Thankfully, four of those hostages were reunited with their families tonight. And we mourn all of the innocent lives that have been lost in Gaza, including those tragically killed today.”
Wait a minute. Who was “tragically killed” during the hostage raid? Palestinian terrorists. The establishment media, however, went out of its way to portray the raid as a gratuitous exercise in the mass murder of ordinary folks who were just going about their business until the rapacious Israeli war machine swooped down upon them.
The Associated Press headline on its Saturday story on the rescue was indicative of the tone of establishment media coverage: “Israel rescues 4 hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, and 210 Palestinians are reported killed.” The last sentence of the lead paragraph revealed the source and motivation for the claim about Palestinian casualties: “At least 210 Palestinians, including children, were killed, a Gaza health official said.”
Who exactly works in the Gaza Health Ministry? A “Gaza health official” is one hundred percent certain to be a member of Hamas. Hamas has abundant reason to lie about the number of civilian casualties that result from Israeli actions, as it is well aware that such propaganda plays extremely well in Brussels, Washington, and the UN General Assembly and results in billions of dollars in “humanitarian aid” being showered upon them. Yet Hamas has been proven to be lying about the casualty numbers.
In mid-May, the UN cut in half the number of women and children it claimed that the Israelis have killed in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post reported that in the UN’s latest report on the number of casualties in Gaza, it added a disclaimer that should have been there from the very beginning: “The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures.”
A month later, however, here was AP once again uncritically repeating Hamas’ figures, and it wasn’t finished. At least its follow-up report on Sunday was immediately forthright about the source of its figures: “Gaza’s Health Ministry says 274 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raid that rescued 4 hostages.” Nowhere in its report, however, did AP bother to explain to its readers that the Gaza Health Ministry was an arm of Hamas, and thus that its casualty figures had to be regarded with extreme skepticism.
AP also didn’t mention the fact that at least one of its “innocent civilians” in Gaza played an active role in holding three of the Israeli hostages. The IDF confirmed Sunday that Abdallah Aljamal, a journalist for the Palestine Chronicle and Al Jazeera, “was an operative in the Hamas terrorist organization, who held the hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv captive in his family home in Nuseirat.” This tactic brought the added benefit that when Aljamal was killed in a raid, the establishment media could claim not only that Israel was killing civilians, but even journalists.
And so Harris was intent on rewarding the Palestinians: “We have been working every day to bring an end to this conflict in a way that ensures Israel is secure, brings home all hostages, ends ongoing suffering for Palestinian people, and ensures that Palestinians can enjoy their right to self-determination, dignity, and freedom. As President Biden said last week, it is time for this war to end.”
If the war ended today, Hamas would survive to murder more Israeli civilians, and while the “suffering for Palestinian people” might end, except for that which is self-inflicted, the suffering for Israeli people would not. But Kamala Harris and Old Joe Biden don’t care about them.
Is my Ittsy Bitsy Yucky Lambsiepoo Afraid of the Boogieman to?
Can anyone identify the Gaza Health Ministry. I am yet to see one photo of this supposed entity. Is it a guy tapping feverishly on his laptop?
It’s Hamas . Could be the very guy they killed who held the hostages for 8 months! & Made them study Koran .
I heard one hostage holding family member did not die. That’s sad. There are no civilians in Gaza.
Camel-uh Harri-Ass; Ditz-In-Waiting. Sorry, couldn’t resist. I know, childish and petty. But I loathe her so much.
and she is SO worthy of every bit of your loathing.. and much more. A least since back in her days of earning her living under Mr. Brown’s Willie.
My Mama always said to call a female a “tramp” was a dire insult, so don’t do it. She is right,of course, but there are some who EARN that name.
The problem with Hamas’ body count throughout this IDF Gaza campaign is that don’t provide proof. Hamas only allows friendly media to show areas of rubble and people screaming without any context. Most of the Gaza Strip is intact, the areas that are destroyed are specifically the areas that the IDF warns civilians to leave. There’s no mention of nor any reporting that Hamas’ operations continual move with the fleeing civilians. Hamas doesn’t fight in the open, it constantly protects its fighters and weapons with civilians.
Regarding the latest IDF hostage rescue, the IDF reported that they were under constant RPG and heavy machine gun attack. The IDF are professional soldiers, they don’t take aim at unarmed civilians. I’m certain that the only Arabs who died during this hostage rescue were Hamas members. The area where these hostages were kept was in an abandoned high rise apartment building in a bombed out neighborhood. This apartment was strictly held by members of Hamas. Even in the IDF video outside of this abandoned high rise, I didn’t see any civilians scattering for cover – did you? Once inside the apartment building, did you see any civilian residents in this building? So where were all these women and children who got killed if none are seen on the IDF mission video? Unlike Hamas’ video of its slaughter on October 7th of civilians on that kibbutz. Hamas’ video has been scrubbed from the Internet now but raw Hamas video showed its fighters plainly shooting not only at people but shooting and killing domesticated barking dogs.
Hamas is a terrorist organization that has run the Gaza Strip under an iron fist since 2006, which was the last year elections were held for the people of Gaza. So in the context of totalitarianism, when was the last time you could believe anything that came out of such a regime? When such regimes release information for global public consumption, it’s called propaganda.
Palestinians:
“When we die killing Jews we celebrate because we love death and we get to be martyrs and go to heaven and get 72 Virgins!
We love death but only when we get to kill more Jews before we die.
But when the Jews defend themselves and kill us before we get to kill them then we are victims of Jewish Aggression!
Then we show our dead and wounded to the World Press and cry about Disproportionate Force and Collective Punishment,”
Then we get the UN, Europe, the USA and the Politically Correct World Press to demand a Ceasefire so we can kill more Jews later and have another party!
Works every time.”
Pammy Hair-A** needs her meds
Now that the Democrats are overtly anti-Semitic, does anybody have any idea why non-Orthodox Jews vote overwhelmingly for Democrats?
:….does anybody have any idea why non-Orthodox Jews vote overwhelmingly for Democrats?”
Because they don’t see themselves as Israelis therefore can be as anti-Israel as any other leftist Democrat.
It’s Hamas . Could be the very guy they killed who held the hostages for 8 months! & Made them study Koran .
I heard one hostage holding family member did not die. That’s sad. There are no civilians in Gaza.
Your comment is an example of anti Semitism! You are repeating msm BS.
Commenters like you ignore obvious changes in voting patterns. And no, It is not strictly divided by orthodox vs non orthodox. I don’t know any Jewish Democrat voters and am not related to any Democrat voter! But you enjoy blaming Jews for votes! What’s next blaming Jews for the weather?
We are a tiny percent and sway no election. Christian lefties are the problem. Focus on their leftism!
What hate!
A long friendship with a Jewish school mate was dissolved when this friend moved to SAFE Florida fm NY & became “best friends” with Jews who exude hate of Israeli Jews in favor of Jewish US Democrats who side with those that want to see them dead. Psychosis @ its best!
It’s a war! Wiping them all out so they can meet their fictitious god faster would be doing the world a favor.
I am sorry to see the article not focus on the terrorists trying to kill the rescuers )and hostages); as they tried to escape. That clearly justified the IDF response.
im assuming that the 81 mill. that voted for these imbeciles and miscreants are sad as well !? but then when you suffer from TDS you dont have a conscience because when you are the political party that is ok with murdering on average a million unborn children every year a few jews in the mix is neither here nor there . but what is a mystery is why jews would vote for the crowd which has a holocaust of its own . so they must be ok with hitlers holocaust of there fellow jews a bit like jews in the war cabinet of israel wanting to do a deal with hamas and unseat netanyahu only for it to happen again next year and forever after . just like the pharisees and sadducees colluding with the romans to murder christ and let barabbas go free . so until they recognise christ as their messiah it WILL happen again .
Hoe Kammie and the Democrat party understand that in order to earn the terrorist votes that they solidly had in 2020 is to present dead Jews. Lots and lots of dead Jews.
If the Allies had bombed Berchtesgaden and Hitler’s Wolf’s Liar in East Prussia, or the Commandant’s villa at Auschwitz, it would have been more likely to hit “innocent civilians than a target in Gaza.
Thank you, Mr. Spencer. This is news we don’t get from the fake news industry.