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Almost half of the “Palestinian” “journalists” killed by Israel actually Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives

Feb 13, 2015 9:44 am By Robert Spencer

Abdullah Murtaja“War is deceit,” said Muhammad, and the “Palestinians” have taken deceit to the level of an art form, beginning with their very claim to be a distinct nationality. The mainstream media, of course, eagerly aids and abets their deceptions. Real journalists are little better than these jihad terrorists — they generally share their world view: the U.S., the West and Israel are evil, Islamic jihadists are never responsible for any of the atrocities they commit, etc.

“‘Half of names of Gaza journalist casualties are terror operatives, or members of Hamas media,'” by Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post, February 12, 2015:

Almost half the names that appear on a Palestinian list of journalists killed during last summer’s conflict with Israel actually belong to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives and members of Hamas media outlets who were involved in Gazan terrorist organizations, a new report has found.

The Tel Aviv-based Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center said it conducted an in-depth study of the list of names, which was published by the Hamas-run Gaza Information Office in Gaza a week after hostilities ended in August 2014. The list also was circulated by the Palestinian Journalists’ Union, which, according to the center, is controlled by Hamas in Gaza.

“The study, not yet complete, found that eight out of the 17 names were operatives who belonged to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, or who worked in Hamas media outlets,” the report, published Thursday, stated.

“The Palestinian Journalists Union and the Gazan branch of the Information Office tried to hide the military-terrorist identity of the terror operatives, and present them as journalists in every way,” it added.

It went on to categorize three levels of ties between some of the “journalists” and Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Two terrorists, who were active in the military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, belonged to the “highest level,” the report said. This means that they were armed and uniformed, and carried out public relations missions in Hamas and Islamic Jihad combat units.

The report named one such operative as Abdullah Fatzal Murtaja, a member of the Hamas military wing, Izzadin Kassam, whose name appears in the list published by the Palestinian Journalists Union.

“He served in the Izzadin al-Kassam Brigade’s Shajiah Battalion, and belonged to the military wing’s PR department. He was seen in a video produced by Izzadin Kassam reading out his will, published on YouTube in October 2014,” the center said.

The second operative belonged to the military wing of Islamic Jihad, it added.

A medium level of involvement includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives who fulfilled media roles for outlets affiliated with the two organizations or local Gazan press, according to the study.

The lowest level, encompassing two names on the list, consists of civilian media workers who worked for Hamas’s Al-Aqsa television and Al-Risala newspaper and website.

Dr. Reuven Erlich, head of the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, compared the operatives to Islamic State cameramen who film the beheadings of hostages.

“To call them journalists is completely absurd. The fact that there are those in the world who bought into these lies is scandalous,” Erlich stated.

“Those who bought into it do not have the tools to check the names. For us, this was not easy to do. It took a month of investigation.

“This list is manipulative.

There have been calls to put Israel on trial because of this deception,” he added. “We checked the names as no other organization has done. We have gone over half of the entire Palestinian casualty list from the summer conflict,” he added….

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, journalistic bias, Palestinian jihad, War is deceit Tagged With: Gaza Information Office, Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Palestinian Journalists' Union


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  1. Don McKellar says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 9:58 am

    That is no surprise seeing that more than half of all journalists from the rest of the world who cover news from that part of the world are actually Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporting leftist anti-semites.

    • Mark says

      Feb 15, 2015 at 3:02 am

      Yes, one of the reasons BBC only has lies to promote as truth on uk tv.

  2. Falsafa says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:06 am

    interesting…that is exactly the sort of pretext one would expect from a dictatorship to conjure up to justify locking up journalists or as the case here maybe…far worse! I am sure Israel can do better!

    • john spielman says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 10:13 am

      it’s NOT Israel that is the problem that has a totalitarian ideology. rather it is fascist islam with its apartheid and evil sharia law and the worship of Satan (allah to muslims )

    • Mirren10 says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 10:57 am

      ”interesting…that is exactly the sort of pretext one would expect from a dictatorship … ”

      You are a total idiot. Even a mohammedan should be able to use google. Israel is a *democracy*, where even mohammedans have the right to vote; some of them even sit in the Knesset.

      Your mohammedan Jew hatred blinds you to everything.

      • Falsafa says

        Feb 13, 2015 at 11:39 am

        democracy for the Israelis sure…try living in the occupied territories as a non Jew non Israeli…bet your “clear views” on the matter would not remain the same.

        By the way no need to use personal insults and name calling…grow up!

        • Charli Main says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 1:17 pm

          Yes, the ” occupied territories” are occupied—-since AD 636 by the Muslim invaders from Mecca as is the rest of the Middle East, North Africa and Anatolia ( Turkey to you )
          ALL the lands your kind claim to be Muslim are Christian lands currently under Muslim occupation.

        • Falsafa says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 1:32 pm

          Well then by your view of the world any land that has been dominated by an invading/migrating folk in the last 1400 years should pack up and go back to where their ancestors came from…well then let’s start with the Americas, Australia, New Zealend, South Africa shall we for starters?…let the white settlers who migrated to these lands leave the native indians and aboriginals in peace!

        • Falsafa says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 1:38 pm

          actually we refer to to Anatolia as “Anadolu” and all our music and culture from this land is referred to as Anatolian. We cherish the cultural and ethnic diversity of Anatolia as a bridge over which many peoples have crossed. But you know this already and don’t care to take notice due to your predetermined agenda.

        • Jay Boo says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 1:50 pm

          @Falsafa
          At least the Jews have a religion.

          Muslims have no religion because Muhammad’s ideology is based on slave trade, sex slaves, shameless sharia ‘honor’ killings and blatant deception.
          Muhammad did not ascend to paradise from Jerusalem and Islam’s third ‘holiest’ site is not in Jerusalem — Remember that the satanic verse quoting false prophet of Islam turned his back on Jerusalem to pray instead to a black stone in Mecca.

        • Mirren10 says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 2:50 pm

          ”By the way no need to use personal insults and name calling…grow up!”

          Calling you an idiot is neither insulting, or name calling; merely a statement of fact.

          You carefully ignore the undeniable *fact* that mohammedans in Israel have equal rights, the vote, and that some of them have seats in the Knesset, in favour of the usual mohammedan about ‘occupied territorities’ and the like.

          If the mohammedans in the ‘occupied territories’ employed themselves with creating a viable state, as has Israel, instead of spending all the aid they receive from the foolish and over optimistic West on bombs, rockets and tunnels, in order to destroy Israel, *they* would have a decent life, and *Israel* would be released from having to deal with a bunch of insane, vicious, morons.

        • cs says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 3:01 pm

          Ah ok, hamas is democratic now. It is more for DEMONcratic.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 6:23 pm

          Falsafa wrote:

          We cherish the cultural and ethnic diversity of Anatolia as a bridge over which many peoples have crossed.
          ……………………………………

          I’m sure Turkish Muslims like Falsafa particularly “cherish” the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Levantine Christians they wiped out—along with most of the last of Jews—there a hundred years ago in the Armenian Genocide.

          They butchered well over a million people, and left Turkey almost entirely Muslim.

          Good God, what shameless Taqiyya.

        • Falsafa says

          Feb 14, 2015 at 2:59 am

          was wonderiing how long it would take gravenimage to show up with his tiresome repetitive one sided view of history!

          to all those readers of these comments who are genuinely interested in the truth and facts of late Ottoman history:

          69 American and Canadian scientists published a declaration explaining those events experienced in 1915 were not genocide in the newspapers such as American Washington Post and the New York Times in 1985.

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qG70UWESfu4

          (only a 1 minute clip which will set the record straight on these genocide allegations from spin doctors like gravenimage here spraying these absurd “taqiyya” accusations, without the slightest understanding of what it is.

        • Charli Main says

          Feb 14, 2015 at 3:37 am

          @ falsafa
          You are flogging a dead horse here. The Muslim invasion of Byzantine Christian Anatolia is a indisputable fact. As is the systematic rape and destruction of thousands of Byzantine Christian cities ending in the rape and burning of Constantinople in AD 1453.
          NO SPIN DOCTORS CAN CHANGE THESE FACTS.
          You seem to be a decent, intelligent person and I invite you to walk away from the murderous filth of Islam, as thousands of your ex co religionists have done and get a life. Its never to late to see and admit to the truth about the genocidal evil spewed by the totally insane Mohammed.

        • Champ says

          Feb 14, 2015 at 3:51 am

          “False-afa” …can’t help but notice the irony in your choice of a moniker 😉

        • BorninTurkey says

          Feb 14, 2015 at 6:29 am

          Falsafa
          “We cherish the cultural and ethnic diversity of Anatolia as a bridge over which many peoples have crossed.”

          Dear hypocritical Turk,
          I do not need history books to know what it’s like to live in (Muslim) Turkey and how you treat your minorities. Simply because I was born in Turkey! None of what you write is accurate and is based on an empty pride and lack of knowledge, not speak about complacency.

          Turkiye has never respected its minorities! My grandfather was sent in 1942 to the slave camp of Ashkale because he was just a JEW! My family, as many other families have been plundered! spitted on and bitten! My father as a soldier was forbidden tot carry a weapon because he was a jew thus you can never trust them! Right?

          Up until now, no one from your “civilized governments” apologized for the injustice made !!! My grandfather and many families were ordinary people who worked hard and never done anything to anyone, beside being Jew which is a crime anyway in your damed country. We are always the demons THE GYAVURS. Aren’t we?

          I have experienced as a child that the showcases of shops were ‘decorated’ with posters “dog Jews are not welcome here” so I decided to immigrate, out the hell named Turkey

          If we look at Turkey today there is no one person from a minority functioning as MP as police etc. No freedom of speech! An increasing Islamization and totalitarian behavior. What are you so proud of? What are you talking about you Turkish Blind?

          And YES there are Arab MP’s in Israel! Last summer Arabs in Jaffa have demonstrated WITH the protection of ISRAELI police! I was there! Does this happen in your country ??? Can I make my objection as a jew against injustice without being lynched???

          Wake up with your false pride! You can tell stories to anyone but I do not buy it, I don’t need professors, historians or books because I have experienced it. I have been there!

          With Turks like you and Turkey with empty pride, we get nowhere. First You Should Be brave enough and learn not to deny! What do you now about the arab conflict, I will tell you: nothing!

          When you write : “We cherish the cultural and ethnic diversity of Anatolia as a bridge over which many peoples have crossed.” look in the mirror and ask the minorities themselves what they experience and not the bullshit you place here!
          You cherish only yourselves, how otherwise you can explain Armenian butchering , Ashkale work camps, the incidence of Shtruma in WW-II, Kurdish injustice, helping ISIS and so on?

          Shame on you!

        • Demsci says

          Feb 14, 2015 at 6:40 am

          So … Israel IS a democratic state. But the occupied territories are occupied because Israel has no choice; if it left the territories, then Israel would be indefensible and overrun. HAMAS showed what Palestinians would do out from the West Bank. And HAMAS wants to destroy Israel and Fatah refuses to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish State.

          So, if WE would live in the West Bank, as Palestinians, we would know who to blame; the stubborn HAMAS and Palestinian leadership. They do have a choice and make the one with the detrimental consequences for the Palestinians. But prejudiced as you are, you consider your fellow-Muslims as most innocent and least responsible and the Jews the most guilty and responsible. Why? To me you measure with two yardsticks and see the Palestinians as children who are not responsible for their choices.

          And you should consider the Israeli’s conquering Israel indeed in the same view as the Americans conquering America and the Muslims conquering Christian lands; We all should agree that descendants of conquerors do not have to pay for their ancestor’s crimes and that descendants of victims of conquest should long since have built new lives.

          And you do know that the current Israeli are DESCENDANTS of conquerors and that the current Palestinians are DESCENDANTS of victims. So stop attacking Israeli’s as land-robbers thereby making children responsible for faults of their parents and ancestors. And stop supporting Palestinians claiming to be victims as an excuse for not moving on.

    • Mark says

      Feb 15, 2015 at 3:08 am

      I would just like to congratulate you and all muslims on the media, for doing such a wonderfull job of exposing what depraved lying evil and often demonic nature the spirit of islam gives muslims.

      It must be so hard for you to remain muslim when you know what sick depraved evil filth muhamad was… what the islamic teachings really are and how many people are finding out what you really are.

      Oh but I forgot, to be muslim you have to embrace evil and call it good, even holy.

      Oh well, no excuse for you then….. muslims are required to be such moral cowards arent they..

      So sad, your not even allowed to notice how many times allah mocks you in his (satans) quran.

  3. john spielman says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:16 am

    it’s not Israel that is a dictatorship, but rather fascist islam that has apartheid sharia law that allows totalitarian rule over its people. islam is a doctrine of Satan

    • john spielman says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 10:17 am

      oops that comment was directed at Falsafa

  4. Angemon says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:59 am

    Almost half the names that appear on a Palestinian list of journalists killed during last summer’s conflict with Israel actually belong to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives and members of Hamas media outlets who were involved in Gazan terrorist organizations, a new report has found.

    You mean that the terrorists lied? I am both shocked AND appalled!

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    There are journalists with objective integrity and then there are those who will say or do anything to support a cause. They teach the difference at journalism schools. There’s no excuse for a lack of integrity.

  6. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Almost half of the “Palestinian” “journalists” killed by Israel actually Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives
    ……………………..

    Well, this should surprise no one.

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