My latest in PJ Media:
The Associated Press report Saturday morning on the bombing of its own building in Gaza City reads like a Hamas press release. It begins: “An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday, hours after another air raid on a densely populated refugee camp in the city killed at least 10 Palestinians from an extended family, mostly children.” The dastardly Israeli war machine is at it again, eh? Not quite: the building was home not just to AP and Al Jazeera, but to Hamas military intelligence. AP’s report, in keeping with its stylistic guidelines requiring no news to be reported that makes the Palestinian jihadis look bad or Israel look good, doesn’t mention the presence of Hamas.
AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt moved the media narrative ahead with a statement fulminating against Israel and again omitting any mention of the fact that Hamas shared a building with AP’s reporters, which is altogether fitting – why should Hamas not have its press agency in close proximity? Pruitt stated: “We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit.”
Self-contradictorily, just a few lines after admitting that the IDF, in accord with its usual practice, had warned the occupants that the building would get hit and had given occupants time to evacuate, Pruitt labored to give the impression that his intrepid “journalists” made it out of the building in the nick of time, just ahead of the Israeli merchants of death: “This is an incredibly disturbing development. We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists and freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Jill says
AP! Do you terrorist buddies Hamas give Jewish children and families ANY time to get out? You dishonorable POS.
Brando says
Very biased,mainstream media is Leftist and propaganda, another detail they don’t say:
from what I have read,Israel ALWAYS ,before firing rockets against the Palestinian cities,
Always WARNS the residents there to GET OUT, they will send rockets and attack planes.
HAMAS
It is a RELIGIOUS ( and political,terrorist) organization and in their CHARTER blame the Jews for: the French Revolution, Communism, WW I and WW II.
Leftists are so stupid or evil they never know Hamas will Never Accept the Existence of a Jewish state there under ANY circumstances.
It is because it is written in the Koran:
CHAPTER 2:190
“Fight in the cause of Allah ˹only˺ against those who wage war against you,
but do NOT EXCEED the LIMITS. Allah does not like transgressors.”
Then it CONTRADICTS itself:
CHAPTER 2:191:
“Kill them wherever you come upon them
and DRIVE them OUT of the PLACES ( Note: like the land of Israel )
from which they have DRIVEN YOU OUT.
For PERSECUTION is far WORSE than KILLING . ” ( To Persecute Muslims= worse than Killing Muslims).
Brando says
Also remember that HIZBULLAH ( Shia ) and the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD are Religious as well as political.
So the will NEVER accept the existence of Israel. Plus Erdogan and his ISLAMIST political party. And the AYATOLLAH of Iran.
For them the following also applies to Israelis:
CHAPTER 5:33
“The penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and
strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be:
1.KILLED
2.Or CRUCIFIED
3.Or that their HANDS and FEET and feet be CUT OFF from opposite sides
4.Or that they be EXILED from the LANDl (Note: throw the Jews out of Israel)”.
Walter Sieruk says
It shouldn’t be forgotten and always kept in mind that the use of a strong power on military might is important and necessary to send the hostile and murderous jihadists of Hamas a message to stop engage rocket jihad terrorism in the only language the they are able to understand , which is the message of brute force of airstrikes on Hamas bases.
There is a problem caused by the Hamas terrorists which is that those despicable jihadists of Hamas deliberately hide among the civilians using them as “human shields.”
Therefore is innocent civilians are killed in the airstrikes is the fault of Hamas.
gregbeetham says
I think Israel should stop giving warnings and operate like the Muslims do and if there are civilians killed in the process then it is their own stupid fault for remaining there in the vicinity of where Hamas is launching rockets. You can’t cure stupid.
Inspired Infidel says
We are watching the results of 1400 years of inbreeding & a very low quality gene pool. Israel should not stop til they run out of weapons. Omar & her sisters need to be deported back to Somalia. She is a disgrace to America.
Boycott Turkey says
Al Jazeera is a hate and propaganda channel how comes no Muslims where protesting when more then a 100 Afghan school girls where killed and targeted deliberately where was the outrage ? I didn’t see any protest around the world why where those school girls not as important as the Palestinian children ?
Infidel says
Nothing is more infuriating than the fact that the channel that was Osama’s mouthpiece in the early days after 9/11 was ultimately accepted by polite Western society. It’s only due to Qatar’s troubles w/ their oil revenues that they were forced to pull funding for that network outside their borders
gravenimage says
Israel Bombs Building Housing Biased Media and Hamas, Biased Media Omits Mention of Hamas Presence
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Yes–this is just sickening.
JHL says
Biden will try the same futile policies that previous Democrats have tried with equally futile results.
wpm says
If the AP had this attitude in the spring of 1945 (March thru May) they would be sharing Hitler,s bunker space thinking they could get a good story on how unfairly he was treated by America and her allies . Lay down with dogs wake up with fleas or better yet get WOKE UP WITH KNOCK BOMES !
gravenimage says
Actually, there was a *lot* of pro-Fascist stuff in the media in the 1920s and ’30s.
Kagman says
As far as I’m concerned, this is a TwoFer…. I’m not sure who hates America/Israel more – The Jihadi/Palestinians or the ‘Journalists’
OLD GUY says
Bias AP go figure, they would leave that SMALL detail out. But when you are the propaganda arm of the hate America groups around the world, that’s what you do.
dumbledoresarmy says
Here’s a little blog post – author’s name is David Collier – that appeared some years ago on Israel National News. It provides a history lesson. The only way to improve it would be to reword it as “In the beginning there was a Muslim with a knife…”.
Copy the link: it still works. And share it about on any and all social media platforms that you use. It’s at least an introduction to the all-important historical background/ context that our media and most of our intelligentsia are actively suppressing, whenever they report on or discuss the latest outbreak of murderous Jihad against the Jews of Israel.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17951
“In the beginning there was an Arab with a knife: 100 Years of Excuses”.
And here are the concluding paragraphs, to get a sense of what all our Islamophile dhimmified Jew-hating mass media ‘journalists” either do not know – or REFUSE to know – or know, but choose not to communicate to their readers.
“We can then travel back even further before the very beginning of the Zionist movement, to the Damascus affair and the blood libel of 1840.
“And we find contemporary ‘mob attack [that is: MUSLIM mob attacks – DDA] on Jewish communities throughout the Middle East’.
“We also find Jews were being murdered throughout the 19th century, just for being Jews, in Aleppo (1850, 1875), in Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), in Beirut (1862, 1874), in Dayr al-Qamar (1847), in Jaffa (1876), in Jerusalem (1847, 1870 and 1895), in Cairo (1844, 1890), in Mansura (1877), in Alexandria (1870, 1882), and in Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891). Each and every one before the first Zionist congress took place in 1897.
“Before the partition, before Israel, before the settlements, before the ‘occupation’, before the refugees, before Sharon walked onto Temple Mount, before the ‘wall’, before immigration, before Balfour and before even Zionism itself.
“In the beginning there was an Arab with a knife and he murdered a Jew, simply because he was a Jew.
“It is an absurd logic that attempts to blame Zionism for creating violence against Jews when modern Zionism *only came about* because of relentless violence against Jews; both in Europe and in the Middle East. You cannot place the cart before the horse. Enough with the excuses.”
Reworded – “In the beginning there was a Muslim with a knife and he murdered a Jew simply because he was a Jew.”
And the author could have gone further back, and back, and back, all the way back to Mohammed and the assassination of the Jewish poet Abu Afak, and the murderous attack on the peaceful Jewish farmers of the Khaybar Oasis, and mohammed’s torturing to death of Kinana of Khaybar (a Jew) and Mohammed’s rape, on the very same day, of Kinana’s young wife, Safiyya.
If ever you encounter a propagandist for Islam who says, “Oh but Mohammed looooved Jews, see, he had a Jewish wife!” you should reply, “He *raped* a Jewish girl and stuffed her into his harem; as a trophy in his “collection”. She had no choice in the matter. She was deeply traumatised; he had tortured her husband to death, the very same day that he *raped* her.” And you can add that he also had a Jewish concubine, who was enslaved and *raped*, after Mohammed’s banditti had attacked and destroyed her community and family. Rape is not love. Enslavement is not love. They’re CRIMES. They’re acts of consummate evil.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, DDA.
Pro Israel says
BUT BUT AP said they had no idea that they were sharing a building with Terrorists. Investigative journalists at there best…..LYING!