Switched at birth in Gaza?

The Palestinian jihad propaganda machine in action: "Switched at birth in Gaza?," from Elder of Ziyon, July 17 (thanks to Inexion):

A reader emailed me about a CBC radio program (originally from Radio Netherlands, link here) he heard recently about Ahmed Masoud, a British writer and playwright who was born in Gaza.

During the program, Masoud told this story that he had written for The Guardian last year:

I had a very happy childhood in a very large family, with five sisters and six brothers. I'm right in the middle, which is a good place to be. But we lived in one of the worst places on Earth – the Gaza Strip in Palestine – and when I was six, in 1987, the first intifada started.

...Despite everything going on outside I had a happy childhood. But all this changed when I was 17.

One day I came home from school and turned on the TV. There was a programme about Palestinian refugees and how their families were fragmented because of the troubles, and it talked about how children and babies were mixed up in hospitals.

I looked at my mother and she was electrified – her mouth was open, her eyes were staring and she looked like a ghost. I knew there was something she wasn't telling me. My dad, too, was staring at the screen. I could see that behind his glasses there was a tear coming down. I hadn't seen my dad cry before, and to see his tears falling down his cheek was terrifying to me.

Then he wiped his eyes and held my hand, and my mum's hand, and he started telling the story about what happened when I was born.

At the time, the hospital was being raided and I was evacuated to a special care unit before my mum had even seen me. My dad heard news that the hospital was being bombed and went straight there. When he arrived he was told the room and cot number where he could find me. He ran as fast as he could, but when he got there, he found not one but two babies in the cot. He didn't know which one was his – the one on the left or the one on the right. There was no time to make a decision. He had to take one. He wondered whether the number they had given him was a mistake, but when he looked around all the other cots were crammed with babies too. And he had to make that decision. So he picked me up. Even now, if you ask him, he can't answer why he picked me and not the other baby.

He went back to my mum and she wrapped me up, and they ran with me through the streets back home. He didn't say anything to her until they got home. My mum just put me to her breast and began to feed me. That bond, that love, that motherly feeling was there. The more she looked at me and fed me, the more she was sure I was her son.

Wow...what a story! It is custom made for reader (and listener) sympathy. You can almost feel the heat from the explosions and smell the gunpowder, as you picture Masoud's father desperately trying to save his baby's life from the heartless Israeli air raid at the maternity ward, and the parents' desperate race through the streets of Gaza - with the still recovering mother forced to flee on foot, no doubt barefooted, dodging the falling bombs and debris while tenderly protecting her newborn baby.

Only one problem: Israel didn't bomb any hospitals in Gaza when Masoud was born. It didn't have air raids until the second intifada.

This story happened six years before the first intifada, when tens of thousands of Gazans were peacefully commuting to and working in Israel. Hamas didn't exist. Thousands of Israelis lived in Gaza. More from Israel would go there weekly to buy goods cheaper than they were within the Green Line. Arabs with the proper means would travel to Israel to be treated in hospitals there.

Masoud's birthday is August 27, and I cannot find any possible actions by Israel in Gaza in 1981 or 1982 around that date. Israel was fighting in Lebanon, not Gaza, and the very few protests there were met with riot control methods, not airplanes. (In 1981, there was one highly unusual mass protest in Gaza where one protester was killed, and that was in December. Most of the protests at the time were from the PLO in the West Bank.)

This story is fiction.

There is more. Read it all.

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The artful, hateful BigLie machine incessantly in action spews out another one.

Maybe it was a Gazonian suicide bomber....

Never trust the tale and never trust the teller! Well, when it comes to Islam!

Clown!

Just reading the story, before reading Robert's analysis, I thought it sounded phony. First, why were the baby and the mother separated? Surely they would have been taken together to a more secure place. It reads like they left Mama to fend for herself while the newborn was whisked to safety. Then it sounds like the "special care unit" was no safer than anywhere else in the hospital, so why would babies have been taken there? And if it was safer, why would Papa want to take the baby out while the air-raid was in progress, and why would the authorities let him? Then there's the "two babies on one cot" business: the hospital could tell Papa the room number and the cot number, but not which baby on the cot? And no i.d. tag on the baby?
Sorry, it reads like fiction from the start, and not very good fiction.

One of the comments on the Elder site wondered why not take both kids?

So then my dad slapped my mum & me and told us to shut up and listen. I had never before seen dad cry, even when he killed the neighbor's lovebale dog. He told us how he had fabricated the whole story--but he did it for the ummah--for Allah! He explained that islam couldn't expect to conquer the world until it annihilated Israel first. He told us about the holy koran and how it commands to kill all Jews. And how stories like the one he concocted were necessary to fool clueless Westerners into believing the palestinian myth and turning against Israel. Then he swore us to silence and promised to kill us if we ever revealed the secret of his false tale. And, just to emphasize that point he slapped mum and me again. After that we all had tears in our eyes...

No matter where a Muslim comes from - he is a great liar. Never trust a Muslim or his tall yarns.

The Gazans are a rare species who rank in the "top ten" of the world's obese, and are "starving Palestinians" at the same time. So fiction writing comes naturally to them.

LOL Exactly! Thanks I needed a good laugh.


Alright, Mccafferty, no more laughing or I KEEEL you, LOL!


Reminds me of the lies about Oswald and his pro-Communism growth in the late 50's and while in the Marines.
Lee H. Oswald was 1 year too young to have even joined the Marines to have done all those things people claimed. Plus, Oswald never would have gotten away with his Pro-Communism rants while in the Marines during the McCarthyism era . Nidal Hussein got away with his islamofascism because of the PC mind set by the MB's power under Obama's reign , BUT, Oswald woudl have never been able to spew his Pro Russian rantings during the cold war , nor could he have learned Russian so quickly .

Gotta love those lefists, they tell really big lies thinking that people are too stupid to do the research and expose the flaws in the story.

CAIR canada and many Pro-Japanese/Italian/German groups in canada are now trying to paint canada as evil during WW2 for oppressing their candian people just because their nations were at War with canada and they wanted to live among us as equals.
Just one problem when CAIR compares Muslims to japanese-candians in WW2, CAIR failed to check the Citizenship ACT of 1947 to see that Canadian Citizens did NOT exsist until 1947 and thus, all the people were British Subjects unless they chose to stay as Foreigners within canada as their Nations declared war against canada such as the Fascists like Germany and Italy did, and the Imperialist Japanese that started their war in September of 1931.

Minorities in canada are trying to cash-in on huge Redress lawfare suits when many of their relatives were actually at war with canada .
I guess that Liberals must now assume that everyone else is just as stupid as them and thus, they can fabricate a History .

Robert, you're not suggesting that Muslims ever lie or twist the truth, are you?

A reader emailed me about a CBC radio program (originally from Radio Netherlands, link here) he heard recently about Ahmed Masoud, a British writer and playwright who was born in Gaza.

During the program, Masoud told this story that he had written for The Guardian last year...
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So—it never occurred to anyone at CBC radio, Radio Netherlands, or The Guardian to do the most elementary fact-checking on this story?

Appalling. And so, more "Pallywood" avoids rational vetting.

Thanks to Elder of Ziyon for doing the work that "journalists" refuse to do.

Unfortunately, I'm sure many more people read or heard Masoud's bullsh*t story than will ever hear of its debunking.

As any modern, Western journalist will tell you these days: never let the truth get in the way of the narrative.

That is *exactly* what I thought. It is what any *normal human being* would do, in a situation such as this. Clearly the story is a fiction, but this muslim doesn't have the wit to even try to make it plausible, in terms of human nature. Big fail.

Gravenimage says:

''So—it never occurred to anyone at CBC radio, Radio Netherlands, or The Guardian to do the most elementary fact-checking on this story?''

I don't know anything about CBC, or Radio Netherlands, but the Guardian wouldn't dream of questioning the tale of a 'pooor palestinian' - that would be islamophobic, racist, and pro-zionist.

When if comes to Gaza, the Guardian, the Bible of the illiberal left, takes its leaf out of The Sun's book and never lets the truth get in the way of a good story.

So you'd think (or at least rational, intelligent people would think) that with all the supposed "baby killing" and "hospital/mosque/school" bombing done by those evil Jooooos, the a-rabs have a plethora of real evidence of such atrocities to present the world, instead of constantly having to invent some (i.e. fauxtography and pictures of people killed in car accidents years ago).

Jan wrote:

...the Guardian wouldn't dream of questioning the tale of a 'pooor palestinian' - that would be islamophobic, racist, and pro-zionist.
........................

All too true, Jan.

And good to see you posting.

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