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On October 17, as Israel waged a counter-offensive against Hamas in the wake of the Palestinian terror organization’s grotesque terror spree against Israeli innocents earlier in the month, a rocket struck the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. Initial reports were that hundreds had been killed. Before any investigation or conclusive evidence had been presented, Hamas and Palestinian supporters in the media seized the propaganda opportunity to blame Israel for a shocking war crime.
The far-Left activists at The New York Times ran a photo of a semi-demolished building which the headline suggested was the Gaza Hospital. It was an entirely different scene from the one in photos reported by other establishment outlets. That’s because the demolished building was in another location in the south of the Gaza Strip, not the northern area where the hospital was located. Some decried this as irresponsible and journalistic malpractice, but it was more than that: it was intentional disinformation and propaganda. New York Times Pentagon Correspondent Helene Cooper stated on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House – another left-wing propaganda outlet – that the early Times headline, “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say” “wasn’t perfect.” Indeed not. It was so far from perfect that even some Democrat politicos decried the “irresponsibility” of it.
But the New York Times was far from the only establishment media organ to spread the ugly accusation. The notoriously antisemitic and far-Left BBC chimed in as well, in addition to many others. World leaders like Canada’s totalitarian pretty boy Justin Trudeau threw fuel on the fire by running with the assumption that Israel was to blame for the hospital blast. A former British member of Parliament said that Israel had “forfeited any right to exist.”
Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who declares herself “Palestinian American” and flies a Palestinian flag outside of her congressional office of equal size as her American flag, leapt at the opportunity to ramp up outrage about the purported air strike on the hospital. She tearfully told a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the Capitol, “We cannot continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital with children… We are literally watching people commit genocide and killing a vast majority just like this, and we still stand by and say nothing. We will remember this.”
Genocide is being attempted, all right: a Muslim genocide of the Jews in Israel. As for children being butchered, when a Fox News reporter tailed Tlaib down the halls of Congress asking if she had any comment on the Israeli children butchered by Hamas on October 7th, Tlaib refused to answer.
Worldwide outrage directed at Israel about the Gaza hospital was instantaneous, because when it comes to Israel, no smear is too grotesque or mendacious, and no evidence exonerating Israel could possibly suffice. Evidence was pointless, because Israel’s haters had no intention of letting the facts get in the way of the emotional truth.
The accusations against Israel swiftly spurred thousands of raging Muslims to take to the streets in major cities throughout Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran, Yemen, and other Muslim-majority countries – not to mention throughout the Western world. A hundred thousand demonstrators, some waving ISIS flags, packed the streets of London chanting their full-throated support for Hamas and the Palestinian people. Similar scenes of massive and occasionally violent anti-Israel demonstrations played out in New York City, Sydney, and elsewhere.
By the time the IDF provided undeniable evidence that the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group was responsible for the hospital explosion, due to a misfired rocket intended to kill Israeli civilians, the media damage had already been done.
The IDF reported (in translation):
From the analysis of the IDF’s operational systems, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, at the time of the hit. According to intelligence information, from a number of sources we have, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital.
Later reporting from the AFP (via Times of Israel) revealed that even the initial figure of 500 dead was wildly off. One senior European intelligence source said he believes a maximum of 50 people were killed in the blast. An IDF spokesman wondered, “Where are all the bodies?” U.S. intelligence assessments put the possible number of casualties higher – between 100 and 300 – but in any case, there were not 500 deaths and Israel was not at fault.
Anyone who isn’t blinded by anti-Israel bloodlust knows that Israel does not target hospitals, and is arguably more conscientious about avoiding civilian deaths than any military in the world. But the enemies of Israel and of the Jews will not be pacified by facts, evidence, fairness, and truth. They have left the realm of reason far behind; they operate instead out of a frenzy of self-righteousness, cultural Marxist brainwashing, and a collectivist hatred for Jews and Israel. In their eyes, Israel is an evil agent of settler colonialism, and thus no Israeli – no elderly person, woman, or child – is innocent. All are oppressors of the so-called Palestinian people, and oppressors can be overthrown only through violent resistance, such as sadistic raids targeting unarmed civilians, which is then blamed on Israeli intransigence.
In the court of world opinion, Israel is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t. Either way, she always plays the role of villain in the media narrative. MSNBC network host Lawrence O’Donnell stated on his show The Last Word that Israel has to be even more restrained and careful about civilian casualties in the wake of the hospital explosion even if the Jewish state had nothing to do with it, because “it is a matter of perception that they have to be very much concerned about.” If only someone in the media would lecture jihadist groups about the negative perception their terrorism is creating.
It’s long past time for Israel and her allies to stop giving a damn about the media narrative and world opinion. It’s time for the Jewish state to turn a deaf ear to her critics and do whatever she must to subdue her enemies and ensure not merely her survival, but her thriving.
The IDF is one of the most courageous and efficient fighting forces in the world. The Jewish people have an epic history of courage, faith, and perseverance. The overmatched little Middle East democracy has defeated its Arab enemies before and will again. But fighting the media narrative about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a war Israel cannot win, because to paraphrase the well-known maxim about war, the first casualty of media reporting on Israel is the truth.
The truth is inconvenient to the agenda of what David Horowitz calls the unholy alliance of the Marxist left and Islamic fundamentalists. It is a Jew-hating partnership of radicals who have very different worldviews (such as on gender ideology) and yet they stand shoulder-to-shoulder when it comes to shouting the genocidal chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That alliance is an existential threat to our very civilization, because Israel’s enemies are the enemies of the West itself. Victory for them against Israel is also a mortal blow to the West. Their agenda must be crushed.
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Only an idiot would believe the New York Times.
There are a lot of idiots out there. And many of them have political power. Just look at the SCUM illegally persecuting Donald Trump.
Unfortunately, there are billions of idiots infesting the world.
The British member of parliament was a member of the Labour Party surprise surprise. A vote for them is a vote for global communism.
Israel cannot win the media war, certainly not in the uk because most of the media is owned by muslims these days.
How are things in LONDONISTAN ?
Good book written by Melanie Phillips. She called it over a decad3 ago.
(Politicians haven’t bothered to read it.)
I’m in Manchesterstan this week.
I’ve today seen the news headlines on the BBC and they are all calling it the Israeli war with Hamas.
That is a very subtle message that says Israel started the war not the Hamas savages.
Have you tried reading American Thinker ? You’ll like it
Israel is on the tip of the spear in the war against radical Islam
HAMAS attacked on Oct 7th then retreated with 200 hostages to be used as human shields and bargaining chips
Attacking GAZA will be worse than attacking Beruit in 1982 ; with all those tunnels it will be like the Japs on Iwo Jima in 1945 . They should never have left Gaza and given them self government
It’s as if the “land for peace” idiots had never heard of Nevel Chamberlain.
True, but something needs to be done.
The NYT has a sorry record of whitewashing Communism Nazism the Holocaust disdain for traditional Jewish values and refusing to understand why Israel exists and why it fights Arab terrorism It is a pre Musk Twitter page with a disregard for the truth that is comparable to Pravda
An the damn paper is owned by a Jew. One hell of a disconnect there.
He was raised Episcopalian, like his mother.
The Episcopalian Church is quite anti Semitic.
It’s still weird for a Jew to be ant-Semitic, though. But then, plenty of white lefties are anti-white, so who can understand these weirdos.
Count that fake picture on par when they showed the thug Travon Martin as a cute 10 year old, rather than the hooded thug he actually was.. There were dozens of recent pics, but the Times trawled for one when he was half his age.
Qustion: Who commits murder while on the phone with the cops?
Answer: No one.
Palliwood , fake pictures and dead bodies coming suddenly back to life when they thunk the camera is off, is normal for the Arabs. At this point, only willfully blind, or those pretending to be, actually give credence to the Arab propaganda.
You really have to hate Israel and the Jews to jump every time Arabs give you ‘red meat’ against Israel.
Back in the day, when ‘The Green Little Football ‘ was a decent site, they were continuously exposing fake Arab propaganda photos from the Israeli war in Lebanon and from Judea and Samaria. Unfortunately, since the Obama election
they had changed their course and went quite woke since then. Pity. Back then, they did a good job.
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1.7 MUSLIMS LIVE IN ISRAEL. (google stat) They are classmates, in sports, co-workers, marriages, neighbors, friends, and even in high government positions, WITH JEWS! Israel gave work permits to Gazans and many of them stabbed Israel in the back blowing any future trust! How many Jews live in Gaza and Arab Countries? THE WORLD IS CHOOSING SIDES! GOOD VS. EVIL and in the final analysis, The Democrats have always supported EVIL, from Communists, to Jihadists, every enemy to become the ENEMY WITHIN our Founding Fathers warned us about. They are now using The Freedoms in the Constitution to OVERTHROW THE CONSTITUTION even though many took an OATH TO DEFEND IT!
Great comment Steve!!
Dinesh D’Souza does an excellent job portraying Abe Lincoln (before he was President) warning that only a “national suicide” could bring down the USA.
We imported 3rd world islam; now we’re reaping 3rd world islam. (Kennebunkport & Martha’s Vineyard think it won’t reach them. It will inevitably.)
(I believe it’s on the “America: Imagine the world without her” DVD.)
As you probably know, leftist weasels targeted Dinesh with lawfare . . . long before these low-lifes pulled out all the stops on Trump. (Trump, of course, pardoned Dinesh. Bush didn’t even consider it.)
Yes, overthrow the Constitution and implement Sharia law.
“It’s long past time for Israel and her allies to stop giving a damn about the media narrative and world opinion. It’s time for the Jewish state to turn a deaf ear to her critics and do whatever she must to subdue her enemies and ensure not merely her survival, but her thriving.”
I would change “subdue” to destroy. It’s also long past time for the IDF to go in to Gaza, flatten it, kill every Hamas terrorist and give the non-Hamas residents (is there really such a thing?) 3 days to get out and go to the West Bank. Turn off the water again and cut all food aid. The place needs to be made an uninhabited no-go zone for at least a year, IDF presence only.
To hell with the Leftist and Muslim propaganda , rending of clothes, tearing of hair and endless handwringing.
If Israel is going to be accused of what they aren’t doing they might as well start doing what they aren’t doing. Enough with listening to Biden admin and their Euro lackeys.
One more thing, Congress should seriously consider getting rid of it’s Hamas supporting reps like Trashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC and the rest of the Muslim traitors in our midst.
Caroline Glick explains that all of Israel’s military hardware comes from the U.S. So, when Blinken insisted that “humanitarian aid” be allowed to pass into Gaza or our hardware would be suspended, what choice did Israel have?
We can’t get rid of elected officials if the people who elect them are permitted to remain in the U.S. Thanks, Sen. Ted Kennedy. We have been rendered helpless to help ourselves, little by little.
Then the Squad needs to be endlessly sanctioned by Congress.
I especially agree with getting rid of the Squat. Those hags hate America and act on their misplaced hatred.
The New York Times, “the newspaper of record” is a mendacious, Jew hating rag. It published a cartoon in its international edition depicting Trump as a blind man led by a dog with Netanyahu’s face (and a yarmulke with a Magen David, just in case the implication was too subtle for their illiterati). During the Crown Heights Pogrom it was so desperate to portray the conflict “even handedly” it had a front page photo of Hassidic Jews “menacingly” brandishing weapons (umbrellas).
The paradox is that the naive think of it as a “Jewish newspaper” when in fact none of the living members of the Sulzberger Ochs clan are Jews, a fact that no doubt pleases them (during Jewish holidays, it features articles entitled “Why I won’t be having a Seder this year” by people who are of distant Jewish ancestry). Maybe they should have an article by Pope Francis entitled, “Why I won’t be celebrating Chanukah this year”. When they printed an article about a revival of interest in Yiddish (spoken by fewer than 1 million people, almost all of whom speak other languages as well) it took a dig at Hebrew (spoken by 9 or 10 million people) as a “militarist language”- as if it were the source of words like “Jihad”. Of course, the great majority of Yiddish speakers were murdered in the Holocaust and Hebrew speakers are living Jews growing in numbers. The New York Times doesn’t like that.
If Muslims or transgender people were treated by “the newspaper of record” the way Jews are, its offices would be a smoldering ruin, and wokelings would spoke the “activism” that reduced it to that.
If Pope Francis did but know it, Chanukah is the most likely option for when Jesus was really born, so he should be celebrating it! This is based on (1) People would never flock to a town eager to pay taxes to a foreign power – but they might make a point of doing it on the way back from a festival – and if they had just spent a week in booths, they’d certainly pack out the inns; (2) We are told that Zachariah served in the priestly division of Abijah, which would have been in the Temple in mid-to-late June. That gives a late March/early April birthdate for John the Baptist, and late September/early October for Jesus, because Elizabeth was 6 months pregnant at the time of the Annunciation. (3) Harvest is the obvious time to collect taxes, not midwinter, when people are living off their reserves.
My point is that Jews don’t expect gentiles to observe Jewish holidays. The New York Times thinks they’re hurting Jews by having people who aren’t Jewish gratuitously announce their non observance of Jewish holidays. Actually it’s the continued existence of The New York Times, and absolute abomination, that hurts Jews.
Good comment, Steve.
The Propaganda war continues, liars don’t care about truth, they only care about power and taking over other countries. Take time to know the facts, and Know your enemies and their goals! Russia and Iran want the Land of Israel for her natural resources, and they want to weaken its inhabitants. and military first.
What natural resources? Fish in the Dead Sea?
People must be ignorant of the fact of all the new oil discoveries in Israel….thats why the Russians, the Chi Coms, and other Arab nations want to invade. They want that priceless piece of land given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by God.
The islamic lies and propaganda are specifically designed for low IQ, stupid people who can barely ready passed a headline. Let alone being able to think or analyze anything.
The same kind of people also have zero moral values, just at the same level as animals, and in many cases even lower than animals.
They are very easy to manipulate and use.
They are the evil psychopathic leaders wet dream. Muhammad was one such a monster, he created an army out of those people. And the same strategy is being used to day to destroy all civilizations.
And guess what, the only proven strategy that works to get rid of them is the only language they understand. Reasoning, mercy, humanity, love or friendship is no part of that language.
They simply can not be tolerated among any civilized nations.
It is terrible to say, but true. That goes for American-born citizens also.
I knew it was BS from the jump. If Israel was going to bomb a hospital it would have been the one that houses Hamas’ headquarters in its basement, not this one which had no military significance. The NYT and most of our “news media” are absolute garbage.
Thank you for publishing this article.
There’d be more readership by shortening the articles. Just scrolling down is off-putting, let alone slogging through every word. Repetitious thoughts are exasperating, and there needn’t be extensive philosophizing to make the obvious point. Missile hit the parking lot, not the hospital. Videos show injured being carried INTO the hospital.
Using Hamas as a news source is not just bad journalism. It’s turning your newspaper into a terrorist propaganda sheet. Next, you’ll tell me the Times used the Soviets as their source about the number of Ukrainians who died in the 1937 famine, or the Nazis as their source about the treatment of the Jews in Germany during the Berlin olympics.I mean do you expect me to believe that a supposedly serious newspaper would consistently side with the current source of the most evil in the world?
Israel needs to take the same approach used by surgeons to remove cancerous tumors. In order to reduce the possibility of remission, all the surrounding ‘healthy’ cells must be excised as well.
Spot on Bill!
I’ve been saying this for years!
Where’s there’s no possibility of civilised debate or reason, elimination is the only option.
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The ayatollah wanted me to blow him up. He said it. I dunno. Something about martyrdom.
Ask former State Dept spokeswoman Jen Psaki. She took the call. Her and her favorite Senator, John Fetterman. You know, the stutterer.
Trudeau and his minion’s won’t allow a repost of this article. Are you on another platform that will do an end run?