Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border

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Within a short amount of time, the Hamas took over the entire Gaza Strip. They then took the millions of dollars in foreign aid and spent almost all of it on building a massive terrorist infrastructure. They built terror networks and kept the local population poor, angry, and ready to fight Israel. There is no reason that the Gaza Strip is not an oasis of tourism or an agricultural success like it was when Israel built it up. It is simply a mini terror-state because Hamas wants it that way. Itā€™s that simple.

(full article and video online)

Hamas is killing Gaza, and the world is dead silent
 
Today
Within a short amount of time, the Hamas took over the entire Gaza Strip. They then took the millions of dollars in foreign aid and spent almost all of it on building a massive terrorist infrastructure. They built terror networks and kept the local population poor, angry, and ready to fight Israel. There is no reason that the Gaza Strip is not an oasis of tourism or an agricultural success like it was when Israel built it up. It is simply a mini terror-state because Hamas wants it that way. Itā€™s that simple.

(full article and video online)

Hamas is killing Gaza, and the world is dead silent
From Israel's premier bullshit organization.
 
In his opinion piece, the spokesperson responded to criticism heā€™s faced, both in Israel and abroad, over his handling of the the Gaza border clashes, with many seeing Hamas as the victor of the public relations war.

ā€œSome of Israelā€™s greatest friends might have preferred that we had looked better in the media this past week, but between vanity and truth, the IDF always chooses truth,ā€ Manelis said. ā€œAs the IDF spokesman, if I cannot source and cite material, I will not allow it to be published. I will not release any statement if the facts are in doubt.

ā€œIf in order to win the international propaganda war I need to lie like Hamas, then I prefer to tell the truth and lose. The IDF will win where it matters ā€” protecting our civilians in the face of terror,ā€ he wrote.

(full article online)

In WSJ op-ed, IDF spokesman says world ā€˜fell for Hamas liesā€™ in Gaza
 
It is unmitigatedly maddening to see Western leaders ā€“ with the notable exception of American and Australian government leaders ā€“ succumb with equanimity to Hamasā€™ obvious criminal stuntsmanship on the Gaza border. What is Western support for ā€œIsraelā€™s right to exist within secure and recognized bordersā€ worth if those borders cannot be defended?



In a prophetic piece of punditry, penned in 2014 but ordained for this week, Charles Krauthammer wrote:

ā€œTo deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the worldā€™s treatment of Israel, fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance and reflexive sympathy for the ostensible Third World underdog ā€“ eruptions featuring Palestinian casualties ultimately undermine support for Israelā€™s legitimacy and right to self-defense.ā€

ā€œIn a world of such Kafkaesque ethical inversions, the depravity of Hamas begins to make sense. The whole point is to draw Israeli counter-fire; to produce dead Palestinians for international television.ā€

And thus, it has been incredibly painful to hear global condemnations of Israel this week.

It is unmitigatedly maddening to see Western leaders ā€“ with the notable exception of American and Australian government leaders ā€“ succumb with equanimity to Hamasā€™ obvious criminal stuntsmanship on the Gaza border.

By acquiescing in Hamasā€™ exploitation of its own peopleā€™s blood in service of Palestinian rejectionism, they distance the day that peace might be possible.

(full article online)

Gaza prejudice and perfidy
 
The perversity of NPRā€™s language choices was showcased spectacularly by one particular Orwellian sentence describing would-be bombers as protesters: ā€œThe army says it killed three protesters who were trying to set a bomb next to the security fence in Rafah,ā€ NPR reported. If only they wanted to buy discounted Nutella instead of bomb Israelis, the reporter might have had fewer misgivings about using accurate language. (Notwithstanding NPRā€™s characterization, the army used the word ā€œterrorist,ā€ not protester, to describe those setting the bomb.)

NPR is hardly the only outlet to insist rioting Palestinians, and even armed Hamas operatives, are mere protesters. In the past, New York Timesreporters have referred to stone-throwing and arson attacks, from Berkeley to India, as riots. Gazaā€™s rioters, though, have been described as ā€œprotestersā€ and ā€œdemonstrators.ā€



Letā€™s be clear: There have been plenty of Palestinians, gathered around tents set up hundreds of yards from Gazaā€™s border with Israel, who can be described as peaceful protesters, despite their radical goal of ā€œliberatingā€ Israel from the Israelis. But it should be equally clear that those Palestinians are not the ones involved in clashes with Israeli soldiers, and not the ones described in media casualty counts. As the Associated Press had straightforwardly reported, ā€œDuring the weekly Friday marches, most protesters have remained in the five sit-in tent camps, but smaller groups have moved toward the fence, throwing stones, hurling firebombs or burning tires.ā€ Of particular concern to Israelis are the attempts, often by fighters from Hamas and other terror groups, to damage or cross the fence. The concern is warranted. Hamas is most well known for its deadly suicide bombing attacks targeting Israeli buses, cafes, and markets.

(full article online)

In Mediaā€™s Gaza, Rioters ā€œProtestā€ and ā€œProtestersā€ Riot | CAMERA
 
Hand it to Hamas. As this weekā€™s events in Gaza showed, the terrorist organization committed to Israelā€™s destruction can still manipulate the media into demonizing Israel for the legitimate actions it takes to defend itself.

Hamasā€™s four-step formula for success is by now familiar. First, get a media that is largely hostile toward Israel, simply ignorant or both to ignore Hamasā€™s genocidal goals and excuse its terrorism. Second, put Palestinian civilians in harmā€™s way. Third, force Israel, while defending itself, to kill some of those civilians. Fourth, rely on that same hostile and ignorant media to blame Israel for these deaths.

In Gaza, step one began some seven weeks ago. Hamas called for tens of thousands of Palestinians to join a weekly ā€œMarch of Returnā€ ā€” effectively, the flooding of Israel with millions of the descendants of Palestinian refugees from the War of Independence (which five Arab nations started, promising to throw the Jews into the sea).

The March of Return was to culminate in a mid-May march on ā€œNakbaā€ day, which Palestinians mark each year to remember the ā€œcatastropheā€ of Israelā€™s creation.

Palestinian ā€œmarchersā€ were told to break down the security fence separating Gaza from Israel, a clear and present danger to all those living in Jewish communities only hundreds of yards from that fence.

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, could not have been clearer about his goals: ā€œWe will take down the border and tear out their hearts from their bodies.ā€

(full article online)

Opinion | Stop demonizing Israel for defending itself
 
The APā€™s ā€œmass killingā€ claim comes as Matti Friedman, who served as an AP desk editor in Jerusalem in 2008, admitted in a New York Times oped that he used a manipulated Hamas ā€œcivilianā€ casualty count, incorporating Hamas fighters in the numbers:

Early in that war, I complied with Hamas censorship in the form of a threat to one of our Gaza reporters and cut a key detail from an article: that Hamas fighters were disguised as civilians and were being counted as civilians in the death toll. The bureau chief later wrote that printing the truth after the threat to the reporter would have meant ā€œjeopardizing his life.ā€ Nonetheless, we used that same casualty toll throughout the conflict and never mentioned the manipulation.

Hamas understood that Western news outlets wanted a simple story about villains and victims and would stick to that script, whether because of ideological sympathy, coercion or ignorance. The press could be trusted to present dead human beings not as victims of the terrorist group that controls their lives, or of a tragic confluence of events, but of an unwarranted Israeli slaughter. The willingness of reporters to cooperate with that script gave Hamas the incentive to keep using it.

(full article online)

Associated Press Labels Hamas Border Assault as ā€˜Mass Killing of Palestinians by Israelā€™
 
A Times article first published on May 15 reports that 60 Gazans were killed during the classes, attributing that number to Palestinian officials. It goes on to say that, according to the Israeli army, "eight of the dead ā€¦ were armed Hamas militants in civilian clothes who tried to storm the fence in northern Gaza and attacked Israeli forces with grenades and pipe bombs before being killed in a shootout" while another three were killed "while laying an explosive device." So far so good.

But if at least 11 of those killed were reportedly armed fighters engaged in hostilities, why do subsequent New York Times pieces claim that "60 protesters" were killed that day?

When CAMERA asked about this apparent misuse of language, the Times insisted that its reporting on the events is accurate. When asked to clarify whether that means its reporters concluded, contrary to Israel's assertion, that none of the 60 killed were in fact shooting at Israelis or planting explosives, or if not whether it means the newspaper feels comfortable describing armed militants among the 60 dead as "protesters," editors declined to comment.

It's a straightforward question, and it should be forthrightly answered. The New York Times promises to treat readers it "as openly as possible." Other journalistic codes of ethics consider accountability to be a core ethical guideline. The Society of Professional Journalists code, for example, says journalists should "clarify and explain news coverage and invite dialogue with the public over journalistic conduct."

(full article online)

CAMERA Snapshots: Are Gaza Gunmen "Protesters"? NY Times Refuses to Say
 
In fact the main achievement of those border attacks is to remind Israelisā€”who left Gaza in 2005, abandoning their military bases and settlements thereā€”that Hamas considers all of Israelā€™s borders illegitimate. The dispute with Hamas isnā€™t over settlements or the ā€œoccupationā€ or Gaza itself. It is over Israelā€™s existence. In Gaza, the Islamist part of the Palestinian national movement does nothing to advance Palestinian interests, instead isolating its people from Egypt, Israel, the West Bank, and the rest of the world.

Hamas offers violence and nihilism, funded by Iran and dedicated to the fantasy of ā€œreturnā€ to Israel across those border fences. But even using all the pressure it could muster, it could not gather more than 40,000 at the fences, significantly under its goal of 100,000. Nor was the reaction in the West Bank (which saw demonstrations of fewer than 2,000 people spread over a dozen or more sites) and in the Arab world as great as Hamas might have anticipated. The month of Ramadan began May 16 and may see a continuation of violence, and even perhaps expansion into another round of war between Israel and Hamas. But the underlying situation will not change: Hamas has turned Gaza into a prison for those it rules. It cannot achieve peace, or decent and normal lives for the people of Gaza, through violent confrontation with Israel.

(full article online)

The Real Palestinian Catastrophe
 
These were not college students sleeping in Lincoln Park in Chicago, 1968, in opposition to the war in Vietnam during the Democratic National Convention. Many of these violent rioters were actually paid by Hamas according to the extent of their injuries and the families of the martyrs received thousands of dollars. They carried knives, hand-axes, meat cleavers, guns, children, and Molotov cocktails. They also flew kites with Nazi swastikas attached to incendiary devices for the purpose of burning fields and crops and houses, if not people.

Hamas even provided instructions on where the weak points of the barrier are, where the nearest Jewish villages are in reference to those weak points, and how to carry out the murder and kidnappings of Jewish civilians.

So, yes, the IDF was very restrained given the fact that these were people coming to kill their friends and families. But how would China react under similar circumstances, if crazed enemies were coming to kill Chinese babies? How would Russians react? I will tell you one thing, if Texans saw 50,000 Mexicans on the border of Laredo with guns and machetes and Molotov cocktails, shooting at the cops, and thousands of burning tires darkening the skies as they were screaming for the blood of American children... they would have shot them down like dogs.

There would not have been 60 dead. There would have been at least 600 dead, if not many more.

{Of course, Mexicans would never have brought their own children into a conflict with armed Texans.}

Nonetheless, Hamas wanted dead Arabs to parade before anti-Zionist cameras for the purpose of delegitimizing Israel and stoking hatred toward Jews and they got those dead Arabs, including children, and their families were paid for this atrocity. Nonetheless, this is causing well-meaning people throughout the world to honestly believe that Israel assaulted unarmed Arab men, women, and children. And why should they not believe it after so many decades of mainstream media suggestion of Jewish persecution of the "indigenous" Arabs and centuries of blood-libels and hate?

(full article online)

Gazan Waves (Mike Lumish) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
 
Hey. Here's an idea. As a test of proportionality, why don't Gazans stage a six week March against Hamas next? Then we can compare fairly.
 
" Even if those methods were to fail (and they havenā€™t been exhausted), Israel would be justified in using lethal force only if a border breach presents an imminent threat to life. Israeli troops and snipers currently fire from well-fortified positions inside Israel, behind two fences, and, in key locations, behind ditches dug to prevent border crossings. They receive footage from drones hovering over Gaza and have backup from additional personnel and equipment located farther inside Israel."


Essentially, Bashi is arguing that Israel is too aggressive in stopping Gazans from cutting through the fence and pouring through the breach by the thousands - and then, even if thousands would rush through and aim towards Israeli communities, the IDF must wait until they take out their knives and raise their arms to stab Jews before the IDF can intervene.

How insane is that?

If the IDF would follow HRW's advice, it would be forced to kill hundreds of people, rather than the few dozen that were killed.

Moreover, Sari Bashi of course does not mention that even Hamas admits that the vast majority of those killed with Hamas members - which proves that Israeli snipers were only aiming to kill the militant organizers of the protests who were directing their human shields to breach the fence while Hamas -which openly admits its militants were disguised as civilians - would take advantage of the chaos to infiltrate Israel and kidnap Jews, its major military goal for years.

The entire riots are military operations to breach Israel's border, and civilians are used to cover the military aims.of Hamas. Arguably, the laws of war are the proper framework for Israel, not the laws of domestic police work as HRW tries to frame this.

Yet even under HRW's framework, Israel is doing everything possible to limit civilian deaths. Given that the number of civilians killed is quite small compared to the number of militant organizers, it is apparent that Israel's actions at the border saved far more civilian lives than HRW's proposed solution of waiting for the fence to be breached and for thousands of Gazans to attempt to run into Israel and enter civilian communities before the IDF can respond with deadly force.

(full article online)

HRW says Israel should let Gazans break through the fence, since they are no real danger ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
 
While Israel gets crucified for killing actual Hamas terrorists trying to infiltrate into Israel, something far worse is happening in Turkey under the radar of the media and most "human rights" NGOs.

" [Deadly] incidents have become increasingly common in the past three years since Turkey ended the open border policy it adopted when the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011. Since then, Turkey has erected a wall and fences along its 900-km border with Syria and sought to set up what it calls safe areas inside Syria for those displaced by the fighting.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported last week that it had documentedmore than 360 cases of Syrian civilians killed by Turkish border guards between August 2015 and April 2018. Those casualties include 68 children and 32 women, it said.

Since the beginning of 2018, six civilians from the area of Ras al-Ayn have been killed and five wounded by Turkish border guards, according to officials at the local hospital where all of the victims were taken.

Of the six killed, four died trying to cross the border, while the remaining two were targeted while working in fields along the frontier, the officials said."
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Turkey is doing exactly what the world is falsely accusing Israel of doing. Without the criticism.

There are major music concerts planned for Turkey in upcoming months, including Wiz Khalifa, Joe Satriani, Liam Gallagher and Imagine Dragons. No one is calling on these artists to boycott Turkey because it kills hundreds of civilians a year just on the Syrian border alone - not counting what else it does.

(full article online)

Turkey has killed hundreds of civilians - 100 women and children - trying to cross border from Syria, or working in adjacent fields ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
 
So when Hamas turns back medical essentials at a time that hospitals in Gaza don't have enough of the supplies it needs, it is unlikely Hamas expects to suffer the natural consequences of their actions.

After all, we are talking about the same terrorists who have no problem using their people as human shields.

In fact, we know that Hamas has no problem affording themselves the best medical treatment in the region - from Israel.

Former Hamas PM Haniyeh sets the example:

o April 2012: Haniyeh's brother-in-law was treated in Israel for a serious cardiac episode that could not be treated in Gaza. According to Al Arabiya, Haniyeh's brother-in-law and his wife "had the option of going to a more advanced medical center in Egypt but chose to go to the Israeli hospital instead." Haniyeh did not stand in their way.

o November 2013: Haniyeh's granddaughter was admitted Schneider Childrenā€™s Medical Center for Israel in Petah Tikva in serious condition for acute infection of the digestive tract.

o June 2014: Haniyeh's mother-in-law was admitted to the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem, by the Mount of Olives

o October 2014: One of Haniyeh's daughters was admitted to an Israeli hospital for emergency medical treatment after she suffered complications from a routine procedure.
Haniyeh is not alone.

In November 2014, the sister of Hamas senior official Moussa Abu Marzouk was treated in an Israeli hospital for cancer

Actually, Hamas does generally allow regular Gazans into Israel for medical treatment.

According to Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which coordinates with Palestinian authorities on border crossings, about 20,000 Gazans enter Israel per month, mainly for medical treatment.

(full article online)

How Far Will Hamas Go To Refuse Israeli Medical Care? (Daled Amos) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
 
Obviously viewers of this programme did not hear ā€œa range of opinionsā€ from its contributors and Shaun Leyā€™s rather lame efforts to present a different view did not include providing BBC audiences with essential information concerning the violent nature of the event under discussion and the fact that the majority of those described no fewer than three times as ā€œunarmed protestersā€ were in fact linked to a terrorist organisation.

In those nine minutes viewers did however see two mentions of a ā€œmassacreā€, two references to ā€œslaughterā€, one allegation of ā€œindiscriminate executionā€ and two references to ā€œmurderā€ ā€“ as well as portrayal of Israelā€™s government as a ā€œbarbaric regimeā€ ā€“ all of which went completely unchallenged by the BBC presenter and with no right of reply afforded to the country accused of such acts.

(full article online)

BBCā€™s ā€˜Dateline Londonā€™ airs defamation of Israel but relevant facts concealed
 

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