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When Israel kills Hamas terrorists, that’s “controversial”. When Israel insists on existing, that’s not only controversial, it’s very nearly provocative, and even when Israel hands out food to its worst enemies who raped and murdered its citizens, and held its children hostage, that’s also… “controversial”.
“Controversial” is the word that the United Nations, the political establishments of multiple countries and the media would like the public to associate with Israel bringing aid into Gaza.
After UN lies about a famine in Gaza no matter how much food came in, Israel and the United States decided to take control of the corrupt UN aid system being used to benefit Hamas.
The media immediately began calling it “controversial”.
What’s controversial about delivering aid to the people the media had told us were starving to death? Two weeks ago, CNN claimed that “1 in 5 people in Gaza face starvation.” (People in Gaza are always “on the edge”, “facing” or “threatened” by starvation, but they never actually starve to death.) Now feeding those same supposed starvation victims is controversial.
But yet here was CNN trying to get the word “controversial” into every headline about the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. You might think that only CNN could manage to make Israel feeding hungry people “controversial”, but the AP, whose personnel on the ground have a long ‘controversial’ relationship with Hamas, began its stories by making “controversial” the first word in its headlines lest anyone miss the point that feeding hungry people is very “controversial.”
“Controversial new U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza aid effort gets off to a slow, tumultuous start”, the AP blared. “Controversial US and Israel-backed aid group starts operations in Gaza,” Sky News agitated and there were even fake explainers like, “Here’s what to know about the controversial new aid program in Gaza” from the Washington Post. And what everyone needed to know was that feeding the people that the Post earlier this month claimed “face critical famine risk” (they’re always facing famine, never actually famished) was very deeply “controversial”.
The media’s agenda was very blatant even before it allied with Hamas to fake a massacre.
This time the headlines screamed about a tank massacre. “Israeli troops kill over 30 near U.S. aid site in Gaza,” Washington Post. “Dozens feared killed after Israeli tank fires on crowd waiting for aid in Gaza, witnesses say,” NBC News. “At least 31 Palestinians killed after Israeli forces open fire near Gaza aid distribution center, Palestinian officials say,” CNN.
A BBC report falsely claimed that “Israeli tanks opened fire” and that “the injuries are all gunshot wounds.” Video released by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shows nothing of the sort. The “officials” being quoted by the media are Hamas. The tank massacre of civilians was invented by Hamas which gets much of its money from reselling aid delivered by the UN. The media, determined to keep Hamas alive, promoted this lie to sabotage the “controversial” plan to deliver aid directly to those who need it, rather than delivering it to Islamic terrorists to resell to them.
Massacres are more “controversial” than feeding hungry people. The media’s “controversial” headlines had failed to stir up enough controversy. It switched to headlines describing the aid distribution as both “controversial” and in the throes of “chaos.” (“Chaos” is currently a favorite media term for discrediting operations that it opposes” which is why it’s used for Trump.) But when “controversial” and “chaos” weren’t enough, Hamas and the media escalated to a massacre. The massacre never happened, but neither did the famine or the tens of thousands of dead children, and much of the population of the civilized world believes in both.
This is certainly not the first time that the media pushed a fake Hamas massacre. It’s not even the twentieth time. And every time Hamas terrorists built hideouts in UN compounds, schools and hospitals, the media dutifully reported that Israel was bombing schools and hospitals.
The public story of the October 7 war is a tale of the media broadcasting and normalizing fake Hamas casualty numbers to the point that everyone quotes them. What the majority of the public knows about the war comes from the media and what comes from the media is Hamas propaganda. The media was even caught rewriting Hamas press releases, while leaving in telltale lines about “martyrs”, and publishing those as breaking news out of Gaza.
But what is particularly revealing about the collusion in this case is that the media, NGOs and Islamic terrorists appeared to coordinate an information warfare campaign against something completely benign, aid distribution, for no other reason than to help the terrorists. Unlike opposition to the broader war, the media cannot hide its propaganda campaign behind general leftist sentiments against fighting wars rather than specifically supporting Hamas.
The only reason to sabotage U.S. and Israeli aid distribution in Gaza is to help Hamas.
When the media promoted the famine hoax, the excuse might have been that CNN, the AP and assorted other outlets wanted to make sure that food was coming in, but once they took a stance against food coming in, they could no longer hide behind concern about aid.
The media’s positions and agendas are identical to those of Hamas. The attacks on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation show that it’s not about the war or about getting aid in, it’s about a Hamas victory. Anything that does not serve Hamas is immediately attacked as “controversial” even if it’s handing out food to the people that the media told us last week were starving.
Hamas is not fooling the media. It’s not even a case of the media pushing Hamas propaganda because it shares a parallel agenda of ending the war and bringing relief to Arab Muslims in Gaza, as most people think, the media is undermining aid to Gaza in order to help Hamas.
The media doesn’t have a parallel agenda with Hamas. It has a single common agenda.
The only possible takeaway from the media’s disinformation campaign against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is that what we call the news media wants Hamas to win.
After a year of lies about famine in Gaza, the media took to sabotaging aid distribution because it did not go through Hamas. The media never cared whether anyone in Gaza was hungry. What it wanted (and what the UN and other NGOs wanted as well) was for the aid to finance Hamas.
If the aid was going to people, not to Hamas, then the media didn’t want it entering Gaza.
Why does the media want Hamas to win? Because the Left has come to be so closely aligned with Hamas that it seeks a victory for the terrorists. It’s not just the campus radicals, whom the media plays defense for, who cheer for Hamas and want to see Israel destroyed. It’s the media.
The media was always biased against Israel, but in 2024, it turned into Hamas war propaganda. The broader realignment of the Left around support, not just for a terrorist ‘Palestinian’ state, but for Hamas, has made the media into the communications arm of an Islamic terrorist group.
When it benefits Hamas, the media claims that Gaza is starving. And, when it benefits Hamas, the media denounces sending aid to Gaza as “controversial”. Then it fakes a massacre.
The Left wing media is complicit in the crimes of Hamas. They are cheerleaders for Hamas, propagandists for Hamas. Not surprising as most Leftists are.
Also remember that these are the same people that covered up/helped hide a clearly senile Biden for years..
The same people that refuse to hold Leftists to the same standards they demand of the Right.
These people hate the USA, they hate Jews they hate Christians, they hate civilization itself. They are doing their part each and every day to destroy it.
The same media that lied about the numbers of people dying from convid.
The same media that lied about the safe and effective experimental vaccines.
The same media who lied about Russian collusion.
The same media who lied about the January 6th violence.
The same media who lied about election fraud.
The same media who are largely owned by Saudi Arabia and other Arab royals.
The media don’t hate all civilizations. Just the West.
and fellow American citizens they hate
the picture on the top is the UN humanitarian and press reporter of the year
Sad but true. Time to prosecute them for providing material support to a designated terrorist organization!
Yes… the media is heavily influenced and controlled by satanic islam.
The media would just as soon see the country descend into destructive chaos, as it makes for dramatic headlines and lurid stories. They have no stake in America other than profiting off the havoc they create.
Excellent article. Just the perplexing issue I’ve been thinking about lately.
The media is controlled by the Oligarchs. It is hard to fathom what their object is. There aren’t many (if any) historical examples of a similar nature. One that comes to mind is the British newspapers before WW1, creating a ship scare, about the German Navy. The last thing I remember reading is that the object was to get more ship contracts for British ship builders.
Another situation that comes to mind is the American press during the Civil War. Sherman said if he issued an order there was sure to be a dispatch from Hell before breakfast quoting it 🙂
The direct object of the current Oligarchs is anti-Trump, as well as anti America and anti-Israel. Presumably the Oligarchs would prefer a Democrat administration more susceptible to media pressure.
Presumably the Oligarchs can afford personal security, so plunging the rest of the country into anarchy and chaos doesn’t bother them. Nor does wrecking the economy. And weakening national security. Or worldwide anarchy. Maybe that’s it. They figure they can profit during worldwide anarchy.
I don’t know about the American media but the British media, and almost everything else, is owned by Saudi and Qatari oligarchs who we made wealthy by extracting, processing, distributing and selling oil.
Excellent point, thanks Mo !!!!!!!
Well, in that case it happens that before WWI the Germans were in fact building a battleship fleet with the explicit intention of matching and then defeating the Royal Navy. I don’t doubt that some people made out quite well but it wasn’t a hoax or false scare just to make more money.
Mr. Greenfield I agree with you prob 90% of the time. I enjoy your columns, but there is about 10% of the time we disagree.
When Israel kills Hamas that’s controversial? No, it’s when Israel kills children and women. Two former Israeli prime ministers said Bibi should be held to account with war crimes! Israel doesn’t know how many children they killed. Reports are as many as 50 milllion Palestinian children have died due to the IDF.
Israel even refused to allow international journalist inside to report. What’s being done in Palestine is pure evil! Israel controls the food, water and electricity to Gaza. They are starving and killing that population. I can go into more specific but for the sake of brevity I’ll leave it at that.
Unimaginable horror Israel has rained down on innocent civilians.
When Israel insists on existing it’s provocative? No. It’s provocative that a European people conned the world that Palestine was their land according to the Bible, which is a text those Zionists don’t even believe in. Quite a paradox.
This isn’t a referendum on people who believe in Judaism around the world. It’s a referendum on the government of Israel for war crimes.
Conduct yourself accordingly.
Sebastian out
It is not possible that you agree with Mr. Greenfield 90% of the time. Your percentage in this post is 100% wrong.
Well that’s because you have a blind loyalty to Israel. Completely blind
Well, since there was a Jewish state there 1,600 years before Muhammad, there has been a continuous relationship between Jews and the land, and in fact a majority of the Israeli population stems from Jews not from Europe but forced out of Arab lands after 1948, you might want to reconsider your post.
Why do you believe Hamas propaganda but not Israeli propaganda?
Just what I need to see with my morning coffee. That horrid face lecturing me from 50 years ago.
So Mr. Moral Relativism, whose side of the innocents are you on anyway? I think I pretty much know, considering you never really bag on the Muslim scum bags like you do the Jews and the Christians.
She is a moralizing bi*ch sans morals.
No homework for me, Please. Thanks but no thanks.
“A proper war in self-defense is one fought without self-crippling restrictions placed on our commanders in the field. It must be fought with the most effective weapons we possess (a few weeks ago, Rumsfeld refused, correctly, to rule out nuclear weapons). And it must be fought in a manner that secures victory as quickly as possible and with the fewest U.S. casualties, regardless of the countless innocents caught in the line of fire. These innocents suffer and die because of the action of their own government in sponsoring the initiation of force against America. Their fate, therefore, is their government’s moral responsibility. There is no way for our bullets to be aimed only at evil men.” – Leonard Peikoff, “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”
The above quote apples to Israel as well.
Gee, a little tut-tutting from our simpering Objectivist, Lenny the Piehole.
Of course it applies to Israel. I wouldn’t be Wednesday without a little Jew bashing from you.
You know, Churchill said the same thing 80 years ago without all of the self centered moralizing, and he said it as the P.M. of England, in front of Parliament. One thing we do know, Lenny ain’t no Winston.
Why is killing children worse than killing adults? Is an adults life less important to them than a childs’? The falsetto shriek “the children” has been a way to suck money or weapons from the west for a century. It is usually women and children but it varies. I guess the female vote is the deciding factor.
Women and children die in every large scale war. That’s even a war-worthy enemy that wears uniforms and doesn’t hide behind civilians.
Israel doesn’t set out to kill women and children, but there’s no way to fight terrorists who hide behind civilians without civilian casualties.
“”. Reports are as many as 50 milllion Palestinian children have died due to the IDF.””
There are only a few million Arab Muslim occupiers who call themselves Palestinians.
And if by two former prime ministers, you mean Jeffrey Epstein pal Barak and Olmert, an actual convicted criminal and corrupt figure, that’s also not the argument you think it is
You claim to agree with me 90% of the time. Do you agree that America, India and the rest of the world should be able to fight Islamic terrorism?
How about all the innocent civilians that died in Dresden Germany in 1945 from allied bombing? 25-30k in 2 days. Six months later, 250k Japanese died in about 4 days when the US dropped atomic bombs. Thankfully, these countries are allied with the west now and while I’m not a major historian, aren’t wars supposed to won? Of course, there were fanatics during WW2 (kamikazes) and we got our enemies attention yet nothing compares to the zeal and hate of muslims. After all, their so-called holy books mandate all religion to be allah’s if not, there’s subjugation, taxation, dhimmitude and murder. Robert Spencer opened by eyes some years ago to the perils of these people and I’ve learned quite a lot. Meanwhile, they’re tribal, nothing like us in the west culturally and their continued adherence to these values/traditions/ideologies hasn’t abated. It’s not supposed to and it won’t anytime soon.
My thoughts exactly. Prior to WW2, the targeting of civilian populations was considered dishonorable and taboo. Unfortunately, this conflict in Gaza is not so much a military one as a kind of gang warfare vs the establishment. I don’t like the death statistics either, but October 7 was an all-out attack on a civilian population, so should you expect anything less from Israel?
Dan, yes I agree with you majority of the time. You write excellent columns. But, for some reason if I respond to a post that I might disagree with I’m met with “you’re an antisemite.” Or, just insulted with profanity.
Yes, I enjoy your material. I agree America, India, Israel, etc, should go after and eliminate terror.
That being said, my comments aren’t directed at Jews around the world. I treat people as individuals not as a group. My disagreement. Is with the government of Israel; not Jews.
There are countless Jewish folks who are well versed in this ongoing conflict that agree with Israel striking Hamas, BUT are deeply concerned about the atrocities that are happening to the innocent Palestinians not involved in this “war.”
I can list many Jews but, like you did with Olmert and others you’ll find a reason to dismiss them even when valid points are brought to the forefront. I understand you are pro Israel. But, the way they are going over kill isn’t helping their cause.
It’s interesting to read the comments from the hypocrites here. If you have valid concerns about Israel you get lambasted. Yet, these same people make no distinction between Muslims and radicalized Muslims, Palestinians, etc. They want all Muslims and Palestinians killed. Even the Christian Palestinians.
You had a senator Fine in Fl who said just Nuke Gaza and kill all of them! So, even the innocent people who aren’t involved in this war?
Surely you can see the concern.
I ask again, why do you believe Hamas propaganda but not Israeli propaganda?
Don’t call me Shirley.
Please get a life and stop writing from your basement in Tehran.
damn right sebastian out – out of your fiing mind – sicko
What reports there are as many 50 million children died due to the IDF? Your unhinged diatribe
is as offensive as much as it is a fallacy. Is your objective is to show, in a public forum, that you are a more on? If so, objective achieved!
This quote attributed to Mark Twain or A. Lincoln that applies to you:
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”
Thats no fool. that’s incitement
Everything you said what bullsh*t, pure Jew-hate and brain dead yet very vicious dangerous incitement.
How would you propose they separate the children in a war setting? Not realistic, not possible. Or would you tap them in the shoulder and ask them to hold their weapons and stand aside while the children are sorted out to a safe place? Make sense??? Your idea seems totally stupid to me.
Correction. 50 thousand Palestinian children killed not 50 million
That is clearly a lie.
You sure it’s not 50 BILLION Palestinians?
I actually think it may be 50 TRILLION innocent angelic Palestinians.!
According to Hamas.
“War is deceit.” – Mohammed
Looks like a lot of folks are getting tired of your Pro Hamas B.S. and your obvious anti-semitism.
Face it Sebby, you are a little league amateur.
Personally I think it was 100 trillion of the little Hamas darlings killed for trying to get a vegan burger at the aid station. But who’s counting, right?
Sebatian out……………..of his mind.
no, it’s fifty billion!
Your correction does not absolve you of your incorrect and moronic comment.
In the Minds of the M.S. Terrorist supporting M.S. Bottom Feeders shooting some masked armed robber is a bigger Crime then Rape and Child Molesters(Just look how the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders treated Kyle Rittonjouse)the M.S. is losing the trust of the American People
Look up PALLYWEID
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20250604023125/https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php
Faje “apartheid/genocide” loaded words.
Those Muslim terrorists of Hamas are so such thieves and despicably callus that that steal aid send peaceful people of Gaza and use in an different ways for the murderous jihad against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
As an Israel government official had explained “They, Hamas, steal the aid, they resell the aid, they use the money to rearm, then they to attack again …. Aid that goes Hamas is not humanitarian ….”it’s “Enabling the enemy to resupply itself so that can regroup and reattack us..” [1]
Just thinking about this the Gazan people wouldn’t really need al that aid if Hamas hadn’t started this war on October 7,th 2023.
[1] The Epoch Times March 19-25, 2025. A10.
Those Muslim terrorists of Hamas are stealing the aid sent to the people of Gaza so that the jihadists of Hamas can put their other resources into the jihad in that vicious Islamic quest the destroy the State of Israel murder all the Jewish people of Israel and also of other nations.
Those Hamas jihadists in their theft of that aid sent to the people of Gaza are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam.
This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.”
To express, this as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of Hamas.
In the newspaper The Epoch Times April 3-6, 2024, A14 the reader in informed about “Civilian Casualties.” For it reads, “Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilians deaths. Hamas risks the lives of civilians to prevent terrorist’s death. Israel considers it a failure, and Hamas considers it a globally advantageous when civilians die than its soldiers.”
The contrast between Israel and Hamas is vast and outstanding.
You’ve summed up the evils of religious fanaticism beautifully. Islam sees these civilian deaths as martyrdom, not genocide, rewarded with Instant Paradise. Which is why they have no conscience about civilian deaths.
It’s rather interesting that” “The Israel campaign In Gaza, despite contrary propaganda, has a very low ratio of civilian to combatant deaths compared with other urban counter- guerrilla warfare.” [1]
[1] THE EPOCH TIMES, August 7-13, 2024 A15
That ‘Sebastian’ sounds like he’s a stringer for Hamas, planted to spread all the lies in his comments. He’s 100% exactly what Mr. Greenfield is talking about.
I think he is too dumb to be a stringer.
Reciprocity is not controversial: If it is Hamas’ goal is to eliminate Israel, why is it controversial for Israel to want to destroy Hamas?
What is controversial is why Europe, after willingly participating in the WWII Holocaust, has trained its children and grandchildren to make Jewish life painful in Israel. Perhaps Europeans can not tolerate losing control over the Jews. Perhaps the Jews are making it too difficult for the European elite to make money unimpeded by any other consideration. Conscience is an impediment to power and control. The Jews’ call for conscience is just so annoying. This anti-Israel position of Europe is a throwback to their primitive origins. See the following link:
This Christian stands with Israel.
The IDF…. Defends. They are NOT an attack force. That is, unless provoked.
Hamas is the attack force. And when the IDF responds to their provocations, far to much of the world has a cow. (As we may say in the States.)
China. Russia. When they project their might. UN silence.
S. Africa. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. They force out; slaughter, Europeans. Seize property. Again, UN silence.
Yes. There are true ethnic victims in this world. The residents of Gaza are not among them. Their “leaders,” Hamas, caused the Gaza problems.
“Controversial” is the word the media use when they want to tsk tsk at Republicans, conservatives, MAGA, Israel, etc. They almost never use that word when describing Democrats and libs. You want tax cuts? That’s controversial. They want a tax increase? No controversy in sight. You want your 2A rights? Controversial. They want “common sense” gun reforms? No controversy. Etc. Etc. Etc.
I wish the survivors of the Boulder terror attack would sue the Washington Post and the New York Slimes for their headlines. Throw in suing self-hating obnoxious tool Thomas Friedman, a puppet of China.
If only we could swindle money from such bogus outfits as USAID we could throw lawsuits around like we were Leftists.
It would be great to give all of the fake media a firestorm of lawsuits to answer.
At the same time – lets put their patrons, the advertisers, upon the hot seat. Let them squirm for a good long time. Stop buying their products.
Let’s face it – if you really want to perform genocide – don’t even think about involving the Israelis.
Here they are – after decades of genocide on the displaced Jordanians that the Brits and the UN stuck them with – these people have exploded in their numbers.
Never has the world ever witnessed such incompetence.
the media is not hamazz directly, the media and hamazz is funded by the oligarch deep state – the oligarch deep state is 100% satanic deadheading to the antichrist which we’re getting closer to daily –
This is among the who this Bible prophesy is writing about – they are liars to the end and in this passage they are in mortal fear and dred and trying to con YHVH, GOD of the Bible once again as they have their whole hypocritical human lives:
Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Your tittle is so true, and it’s good to read it, because very rare on the news. What shocked me even more in Europe is the fact that some of our politicians are making statement for a month that there is a famine in Gaza, In Switzerland, former « Conseil Fédéraux », went on purpose on the news, whereas they are retired, to lie about Gaza, as well as diplomats, they are showing us what they did these past decades, participating to the old Jewish hate which was very well hidden by the medias, the schools and the culture, At least, what was before supposedly underground is now totally visible. The far left in France is also showing us that nazism is coming from them and not from the right, as we were educated to think that.
Even the Wall Street Journal is participating in the calumny. Murdoch hired an English woman as its new editor. After that it was inevitable
if the rational people would not buy newspapers, not float on the lies inthernet waves and visit the cnn, bbc, msnbc… “news” as we know, the product and the manufacturer would reduce the output going to the gossip market. as long as we read and comment they ll have their fat salaries and enjoy from advertising,
Media bubbles are created to keep those inside behaving and voting a certain way. Minnesota has one. Get home from your job and there it is regurgitated for you— news , weather. Sports.. And the internet and social media is just a spy network