All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

In 2018, Abbas also claimed Jews were targeted by Nazis not for their ā€œreligion but against their social function which relates to usury [unscrupulous money-lending] and banking and such.ā€

Yet Abbasā€™ Holocaust distortion was not what global wire agencies chose to lead on in their reports of the Berlin press conference.

Reuters, for example, produced a two-paragraph article on Tuesday evening, headlined Germanyā€™s Scholz rejects word ā€˜apartheidā€™ to describe Middle East conflict, which omits Abbasā€™ ā€™50 holocaustsā€™ comments altogether.

Only on Wednesday morning did the global news service reprint his words in full in a piece that focused on the response to Abbas: Germany and Israel condemn Palestinian presidentā€™s Holocaust remarks.

The Associated Press on Wednesday summarized the incident thus: Palestinian President Abbas skirts apology for Munich attack.

While APā€™s headline is technically correct, the piece that follows fails to note Abbas has previously honored the Black September terrorists who took part. In 2020, he described the assassination of three of the perpetrators in Lebanon in 1973 as the ā€œdeaths of martyrsā€ and, as such, his refusal to apologize for the atrocity is hardly surprising.

Equally troublesome has been the silence from international media outlets; the majority of whom have either reprinted the wire agency articles or neglected to cover the press conference at all (at the time of this pieceā€™s publication).

Mahmoud Abbas has frequently billed himself as Israelā€™s best chance of a ā€œpartner for peaceā€ (see here, for example) ā€” the leader who can finally help end the decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict.

However, his comments in Berlin expose who he truly is: a Jew-hating fanatic.

(full article online)

 
The environmentalist Sierra Club has reopened its Israel travel program five months after canceling a pair of trips to the Jewish state in the wake of pressure from anti-Israel activists.

Last weekend, the Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit, which has been running programs in Israel for a decade, posted details of a new excursion set for March.

The ā€œNatural and Historical Highlights of Israelā€ program will include many of the traditional Sierra Club activities planned on previous visits. This time around, the itinerary will include a meeting with Palestinian conservationists and a visit to the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, which features Israeli, Arab and Jordanian students.

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While some media outlets like NBC and Reuterslabored to either obscure or cast doubt on the fact that misfired Islamic Jihad rockets were responsible for a significant number of the fatalities in the Gaza Strip earlier this month, ABCā€™s coverage goes one step further with its egregious error of commission.

Contrary to de la Cuetaraā€™s assertion that Israeli airstrikes are responsible for the 49 fatalities, including 17 children, many were killed by failed Islamic Jihad rockets. As The Associated Press recently reported (ā€œMisfired rockets may have killed over a dozen in Gaza battleā€œ): ā€œClose to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an Israeli military assessment that appears consistent with independent reporting by The Associated Press.ā€

Other sources give different figures for the percentage of the 49 Gazans killed by Islamic Jihadā€™s failed rockets. For instance, Haaretzā€˜s Amira Hass, a veteran critic of Israel, reported Sunday: ā€œBotched launches of Palestinian rockets killed 19 non-combatants, including 12 children.ā€ She provides a detailed account of each fatality: their name, date, place and circumstances of death. A subsequent Haaretz report then said Israeli defense officials speaking off the record acknowledged an Israeli strike was responsible for five deaths Aug. 7 in Jabalya, thereby revising Haaretzā€˜s figure to 14 Palestinians killed by failed rockets.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center identifies 11 Gazans were killed by Palestinian rockets. The Israeli military believesthat 12 children in Gaza were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets, according to Times of Israel.

Thus, while there is uncertainty about the precise number of Palestinians killed by misfired Islamic Jihad rockets, there is no uncertainty that the failed attacks against Israel ended up taking numerous Palestinian lives.

CAMERAā€™s Israel office communicated this information to ABC very early Monday morning (ET). Nevertheless, a second ABC journalist repeated the same falsehood later that day using wording identical to de la Cuetaraā€™s though she reduced the number of Palestinians allegedly killed by Israeli airstrikes (48 instead of 49). ABC correspondent Reena Roy falsely reported on Aug. 15 on ā€œABC News Todayā€ at 12:19 pm ET:

The attack comes just a week after a ceasefire ended some of the worst fighting in the region in the year, Israeli airstrikes killing 48 Palestinians, including 17 children and the Islamic militant group firing more than 1000 rockets at Israel.

CAMERA continues to urge ABC to broadcast on-air corrections both on programs in which the false charge was reported, making clear that a significant portion of the Palestinian fatalities in Gaza last week were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets aimed at Israel but which veered off course, and that Israel is not responsible for all 49 (or 48) deaths.


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Readers are told that:

ā€œThe gunman, identified as a resident of occupied East Jerusalem, fled the scene but later turned himself in.

Israeli police said he had a criminal record but no known affiliations with Palestinian militant groups.ā€

No further details of Sidawiā€™s criminal record are provided. The Jerusalem Post reported that ā€œources in east Jerusalem said it was not clear whether Sidawi, who has a criminal background, was affiliated with any terrorist groupā€.

The current version of the BBCā€™s report tells readers that ā€œPalestinian militant groups praised the shootingā€ but does not clarify which ā€œmilitant groupsā€ or what they actually said. The BBC did not report that the attack was also praised in posts on the official Facebook account of Fatah, the dominant faction in the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas.

The final paragraphs of the report bring up a topic unrelated to its supposed subject matter:

ā€œPalestinian militant groups praised the shooting, which came a week after the latest violent escalation in the Gaza Strip.

At least 47 people were killed in Gaza over three days as Israeli forces targeted leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and militants fired more than 1,000 rockets into Israel.

Gazaā€™s health ministry said 35 civilians were killed, including 17 children, while PIJ said it lost 12 fighters.

Several Israelis sustained minor injuries as a result of PIJ rockets that landed inside Israel.ā€

Once again we see uncritical BBC amplification of information provided by ā€œGazaā€™s health ministryā€ without any clarification of the fact that it is run and controlled by the Hamas terrorist organisation. Interestingly, the previous version of the report told readers that ā€œIsraeli officials have said many civilians were killed by PIJ rockets that failed to clear Gazaā€ but that reference to shortfall missiles was removed from the version currently appearing online.

(full article online)

 
Arabi21, a pan-Arab news channel, published anunusual op-edby Abdullah Al-Ashaal, a former Egyptian presidential candidate and former assistant to the Egyptian Foreign Minister. He is described as an ambassador, but I cannot find to where.

Al-Ashaal argues that Egypt should abrogate is peace treaty with Israel - and that Sadat was under Zionist influence when he decided not to destroy Israel completely in the Yom Kippur War.

His delusions are apparent throughout the article:

"Israel is not an ordinary country, but rather the spearhead of the Zionist project and was planted in this particular region to destroy Egypt."

"Israel insisted on forcing Egypt to violate the principles of international law in many of its provisions" of the peace agreement.

"If Sadat had better planned the October War with the best of the Egyptian military,.... the end of Israel would have been the October War, but there is a contradiction between the management of the war in the first week and the setback [in following weeks.]"

"The [peace] treaty does not prevent Egypt from supporting the resistance, nor does it prevent Arab solidarity and the restoration of the joint Arab defense treaty. Egypt can, at its own will, amend the peace agreement...A state may review or cancel some provisions of the treaty or suspend some of its provisions."

He says he is writing a book about how terrible the peace treaty is.

Al-Ashaal is apparently still living in 1975.



 

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