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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: 7 Reasons Why the Palestinians Don’t Occupy the Moral High Ground

Jul 20, 2014 6:31 pm By Robert Spencer

Hamas-militants-via-AFPJust in case anyone has any serious doubt. My latest in PJ Media:

Children killed on a Gaza beach, Palestinian deaths now over 200 with Israeli deaths numbering only one – the mainstream media is in full anti-Israel mode, as it always is whenever Israel acts to defend itself against the relentless jihad that is determined to destroy the Jewish state. But its attempts to demonize Israel and portray the Palestinians as innocent victims of Israeli aggression founder on the facts, as they always have in the past. The question is increasingly becoming that of whether the mainstream media has any actual interest in the facts. Here are seven that mainstream “journalists” are overlooking:

7. Palestinians cheer as Gaza rockets fly toward Israeli population centers.

Reuters reported that “West Bank Palestinians cheered on Saturday as Hamas militants fired the largest salvo of rockets yet on the Tel Aviv area since the start of the recent escalations.”

This is to be expected from a culture that celebrates death – and the Hamas statelet in Gaza certainly does that. A Muslim child preacher once taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” This taunt is derived from the Qur’an: “Say, ‘O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful.’” (62:6)

And if the Jews won’t wish for death, the Palestinians will wish it upon them.

6. Islamic jihadists fired rockets at the Israeli holiday resort Eilat.

The Guardian reported Tuesday that “several people were injured and cars and buildings were damaged” as rockets from Gaza hit the Israeli resort city of Eilat.

In targeting Eilat, the jihadis showed anew that they love civilian casualties on both sides. They love to target Israeli civilians. And they love to mount jihad attacks from civilian areas, so as to cause civilian deaths by Israeli retaliatory fire, as they then use those civilian deaths for propaganda purposes. They are the ones responsible for those civilian deaths, not Israel.

And when Islamic spokesmen claim that Islam forbids the killing of civilians, that is only half correct. The available hadiths are contradictory (as is so often the case). There are hadiths in which Muhammad forbids the killing of civilians, but there is also this one: “The Prophet… was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, ‘They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans).’” (Bukhari 52.256)

That is, it is permissible to kill the women and children, because they are of the pagans.

5. Palestinian rep to UNHRC: Israel warns civilians before attacks, we don’t.

Last week, the Palestinian representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ibrahim Khreisheh, was asked if the Palestinians could mount a case against Israel in the International Criminal Court. Khreisheh pointed out one problem with this: “The missiles that are now being launched against Israel – each and every missiles constitutes a crime against humanity whether it hits or misses, because it is directed at a civilian targets….Targeting civilians – be it one civilian or a thousand – is considered a crime against humanity.”

Khreisheh also noted that “many of our people in Gaza appeared on TV and said that the Israeli army warned them to evacuate their homes before the bombardment. In such a case, if someone is killed, the law considers it a mistake rather than an intentional killing, because [the Israelis] followed the legal procedures.” By contrast, “as for the missiles launched from our side.… We never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall, or about the operations we carry out.”

4. Hamas to social media activists: “Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank.”

Yes, you read that right: Hamas is telling its supporters on social media to refer to all Palestinian casualties as “civilians,” before noting their military rank. In other words, they’re all civilians now in Gaza, and every Israeli strike against them is an unwarranted attack on innocent people. Hamas also advises its media stooges to “begin [your reports of] news of resistance actions with the phrase ‘In response to the cruel Israeli attack,’ and conclude with the phrase ‘This many people have been martyred since Israel launched its aggression against Gaza.’”

Not just social media writers, but mainstream media journalists have heeded this directive, with the death toll of Palestinians and Israelis now a feature of mainstream reporting about the conflict. Never, meanwhile, is it explained that Palestinian casualties are largely the result of its launching attacks against Israel from civilian areas, hoping to provoke a retaliatory strike that they can exploit.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    Reported that an Israeli soldier captured. Palestinians cheer.
    http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-military-wing-claims-abducted-israeli-soldier-201316552.html

    Israel now has the right to do what is necessary in targeting Hamas for a rescue mission.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 7:26 pm

      Miracles happen rarely, but there seems to be one now for Israel… Finally, Secretary of State John Kerry “gets it” on the Sunday news shows

      He spoke strongly in condemnation about the tunnels used to accomplish infiltration, and Hamas’s willingness to sacrifice Gaza innocents — men / women / children.

      Mahmoud Abbas is no more immune to the effects of continuous failure than any other human being.

      He is on the ledge of self destruction, after decades of unwinnable jihadist goals & Islam’s essence as a relentlessly violent gang “religion”.

      • bettina says

        Jul 20, 2014 at 9:26 pm

        Yes, JT — I was surprised and comforted to hear John Kerry acknowledge (on Fox) Israel’s need to take necessary military measures to destroy the Hamas infrastructure. I did a double-take and listened very carefully.
        Such a contrast to Obozo’s Jew-hatred and muzzie-ass kissing, isn’t it?
        Halleluiah!

        • Jay Boo says

          Jul 20, 2014 at 9:51 pm

          I wonder if they will still behave after the mid-term congressional elections.

  2. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    The vast majority among the Palestinian dead are fighting men but the toll does include children, images of which are the propagandists’ chief weapon for stirring up hateful opposition to Israel. If I may speak for all of us who follow this blog, we are not heartless monsters in the counter-jihad/pro-Israel ranks (quite the opposite) but are like combatants desensitised to the images of slaughter through long acquaintance with the ISLAMIC violence perpetrated daily around the world. So while we would normally respond with horror to the propagandists’ images, we are instead rendered indifferent as we agitate for an effective and lasting counter-attack on the original source of all this violence – fundamentalist Islam. It is only by defeating this that the children of Gaza will be spared the horrors they currently endure and it is only those who oppose Islam who truly have their interests at heart ; not the wailing protestors who weep at the images only to then direct their hatred toward the one force capable of ending the slaughter.

  3. RCCA says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    Hamas deliberately and endlessly shooting rockets. Why did they continue to do this when it seemed to inflict so little damage? To provoke Israel finally into military action and bring the predictable condemnation by the UN. All of this gives Hamas credibility, especially if they can force Israeli concessions. Hamas gains worldwide Muslim support, regardless the civilian cost or whether the local population is fed up with them and wants them gone.
    I trust the Israelis know all this and more and I stand with Israel.

    • bettina says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 9:34 pm

      Per Wikipedia:
      “Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by Israel and a number of Western and non-Western governments: The United States, Canada, the European Union, Jordan, Egypt and Japan classify Hamas as a terrorist organization.
      “Other states, however, including Iran, Russia, Turkey, China, and many Arab nations do not.”

  4. duh_swami says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    By irrationally supporting Hamas, and the ‘Palestinian people’, who don’t exactly exist, these useful idiots are supporting Allah. if you support Allah, you must support the Quran, Sunnah, and Sira, and sharia law. If you support all that, you must be a Mahoundian. If you are not a Mahoundian, there is something wrong with you. Run to the doctor quick, and see what it is.

  5. bettina says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 8:54 pm

    Well, not only do the coward Hamas imbed themselves in civilian areas, hospitals, schools and ambulances, they make damned sure those soft-hearted Israelis abort certain missions when they see civilians congregating on the rooftops of terrorist homes, as shown in a video clip that appeared on the IDF website.
    I’m certain that those civilians, who were initially dispersing away from the target, were turned back at gunpoint to stand on the roof, to shield the cowards from the impending air attack.

  6. slobberingfits says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    I like seeing them with white flags. Im not fooled I know if the shooting were to stop the mothers would be back encouraging their kids to be suicide bombers

  7. commonsense says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 11:30 pm

    Let us remember that Muslims view any attempts by unbelievers to retaliate against jihad attacks as acts of aggression, as retaliatory acts of infidel resistance prevent the spread of Islam. Slowing or countering the expansion ofcthe

    • commonsense says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 11:47 pm

      Damned so-called smart phone – I was not ready to post my comment; the phone did it for me. I was trying to say that preventing the expansion of Islam is considered intolerable belligerence, and the unbelievers who perpetrate such an outrage are considered to be aggressors. So Muslims, by their own reckoning, are never aggressors, only defenders, faithful slaves of Allah committed to putting all of humanity on The Straight Path. So this is an important reason why Israel is deemed an aggressor, although there are many other reasons why Israel is considered an abomination by Muslims. I will not review them here, as these have been discussed at length by Spencer, Fitzgerald, and others at this website over the years.

  8. tpellow says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 4:27 am

    “How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?”

    http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11607

  9. mary_gonzales says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 6:42 am

    Gazans are Hamas..Hamas are Palestinian..make no mistake.
    Israel doing this not for Israeli itself, but for mankind. Even human rights stand just for the palestinian…

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