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Establishment media uncritically reports Hamas’ sanitized version of violent Gaza border protests

May 14, 2018 7:36 pm By Robert Spencer

Hamas “has escalated the premeditated, openly violent campaign,” while the establishment media “hypes Hamas-provided casualty counts and portrays the Gaza rioters as peaceful protesters frustrated that there is no Palestinian state and angry that the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem. In doing so, the news media are actually advancing Hamas’s cause.”

One thing about the establishment media: they’re consistent.

“Klein: Journalists Take Hamas Terrorists’ Word as Fact in Gaza Riot Coverage,” by Aaron Klein, Breitbart, May 14, 2018:

JERUSALEM –  Hamas, desperate over its increasingly precarious situation in Gaza and eager to please Iranian paymasters, has escalated the premeditated, openly violent campaign aimed at breaching the Israel-Gaza border and attacking nearby Israeli communities.

This while the news media hypes Hamas-provided casualty counts and portrays the Gaza rioters as peaceful protesters frustrated that there is no Palestinian state and angry that the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem. In doing so, the news media are actually advancing Hamas’s cause.

Hamas organized today’s massive escalation to coincide with the official opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and the Palestinians’ commemoration tomorrow of so-called Nakba Day, which mourns the “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding.

Hamas has been selling the nearly two-month-long mass riots as “return rallies,” marketing the fiction that Palestinians have a so-called “right of return” to the State of Israel while also demanding a state immediately.

It is outrageous to claim that the Palestinians would need to resort to such actions in order to create a state. The Palestinians have infamously turned down every Israeli statehood offer, each those that came with a shared capital in Jerusalem. Those offers were made at Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001, the Annapolis Conference in 2007, and more offers were made in 2008 and reportedly in 2014. In each of these cases, the PA refused generous Israeli offers of statehood and bolted negotiations without counteroffers. Only today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yet again called on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.

The only thing standing in the way of the Palestinians having a state — even one with a foothold in Jerusalem — is the Palestinians’ own abject refusal to accept numerous statehood offers while rejecting Israel’s very existence.

Meanwhile, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claims that so far 52 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 more wounded in today’s riots at 12 locations along the border. The casualty numbers, which are expected to rise, could not be immediately verified. Hamas has a history of exaggerating casualty claims.

The news media has been brandishing the Hamas-provided numbers, just as they did with other recent Gaza riots. This while failing to provide the proper context for today’s bloody events and how Hamas is singularly responsible for leading its people to death.

A closer look at today’s casualties betrays the violent nature of the allegedly peaceful protests. Three Gazans were shot while trying to plant explosive devices at the border fence, while others were killed attempting to open fire on Israeli soldiers, the IDF said.  Israel already identified at least 10 of the fatalities as Hamas members.

The Times of Israel reported on the numerous other violent attacks during today’s riots:

Protesters set tires on fire, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the air at several spots along the border, while the military said protesters assaulted the border fence and hurled rocks at soldiers. Several incendiary kites were flown toward Israel. One fell in a field outside Kibbutz Mefalsim, sparking a fire. Israeli firefighters and emergency personnel are at the scene.…

At around 4 p.m., the time that the US was inaugurating its embassy in Jerusalem, military sources said Hamas-spurred groups were trying to breach the border at several spots along the Gaza fence….

On Sunday, the IDF warned in a video that Hamas is planning to “massacre” Israelis if its terrorists infiltrate the Israeli border.

Hamas has a long and sordid history of using civilians, including children, as human shields, and that is just what it is doing today. It is indisputable that Israel’s borders are being attacked and that we are witnessing an orchestrated, terrorist-sponsored, violent campaign in which civilians and Hamas jihadists alike are trying to overrun the borders of a nation-state.  Israel says Hamas jihadists have been instructed to wait behind civilian protesters and approach the border once a breach has been identified.

According to reports, Hamas is seeking to not only break the Gaza barrier and murder Jews, but gain control of some territory for a brief period of time to claim victory….

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  1. mortimer says

    May 14, 2018 at 7:47 pm

    The Western media are water carriers for the JIHADISTS who want to destroy the Jewish homeland and America, the freedom capital of the world.

    • Lydia Church says

      May 14, 2018 at 11:14 pm

      Yes, I have witnessed how slanted the media reports on all things Israel, it is so biased. Even with the Iran strike and the self defense.

    • mummymovie says

      May 15, 2018 at 5:15 am

      The long-sold out, shameless MSM has made itself a willingly submissive, eager tool for Hamas: There’s no bottom to how low they will stoop to achieve their anti- Semitic aims.

      I wonder how much -behind the scenes- Hamas or the PA is paying the families of dead and/or injured “protestors”, or how much their families are being “reimbursed” for. You just know some sleazy blood money of this sort is being exchanged: It’s right out of the “palestinian” playbook.

      Send these “martyrs” sacrificing human lives for political theater straight to allah-
      Scumbags. I, for one, won’t shed a single tear.

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 15, 2018 at 8:53 am

        Oh, but the poor, poor Palestinian refugees (and the patsies who fund them)!!!

        Middle East Forum has a long, excellent article for those who wish to bone up on this chronic burr(aq) under the Arab saddle:

        https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/the-privileged-palestinian-refugees

        • boakai ngombu says

          May 15, 2018 at 5:23 pm

          +1

    • J D S says

      May 15, 2018 at 12:55 pm

      MSM and any other water carriers are taking us down a dangerous road with no exists when it comes yo Palestine and Hamas, one and the same, Palestine is not a Palestinian state…no such thing as the Palestinians. They are just Arab nomads trying to disrupt Israel’s right yo the whole of the “PROMISED LAND….Promised to the Jews by God…God will not be mocked…..
      Off topic but one most time overlooked SIGN of the end times is found in some of Jesus last words in Luke 21: 20-22….look it up.

  2. Jack Dillon says

    May 14, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    Israel either increases the casualty count or surrenders it’s sovereignty. We know the ‘palestinians’ won’t exercise good judgment and spare their own lives. They will throw their lives away for allah and what they believe is their reward, paradise.

    • Dov Berrol says

      May 14, 2018 at 11:08 pm

      Indeed.

    • mummymovie says

      May 15, 2018 at 5:23 am

      Just more compelling evidence that islam truly is a “death cult”.

      Disgusting, the way jihadist groups like hamas deals in human lives for the sake of coordinated political theatre.

  3. JawsV says

    May 14, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    “Gaza” is the Turkish expression for Jihad (an Arabic word). So, the Gaza Strip is the Jihad Strip.

    • Anton Filipenkov says

      May 15, 2018 at 8:14 am

      That’s true! https://en.glosbe.com/tr/en/gaza

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 15, 2018 at 9:21 am

        Anton…In your link I see no mention of Gaza equaling a Turkish expression for “jihad”. It only mentions “gas” and has a few sentence examples that stand out:

        “Gas chamber, deportation, Jew!”
        and
        “I didn’t know there were gas chambers, but I always had a feeling.”

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 10, 2018 at 11:58 pm

      I’m afraid this is mistaken. The word Gaza for this region much predates Islam. It comes from the Hebrew for “strong city”.

  4. somehistory says

    May 14, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    One report, i believe it was the Wash. Post, did say that some of the “protesters” had knives and wire cutters and were trying to cut the fence. Also, that hamas told the people that Israeli soldiers were fleeing when, in fact, they were increasing in numbers to defend the border. hamas encouraged the protesters to try to break through with this lie making it sound possible.

    Some of the protesters took their small children along, and food booths were set up to sell snacks. Not a brain cell among them.

    • mummymovie says

      May 15, 2018 at 5:33 am

      These “palestinian protestors” are being led to their deaths by hamas.

      Sheep to the slaughter. Shamelessly, hamas will resort to any tactic -no matter how underhanded, evil and detrimental to its own people- to accomplish their goal of feigning victimhood for the international mainstream media, sitting like vultures in wait to lap up the ensuing carnage.

  5. Gamzu says

    May 14, 2018 at 9:08 pm

    Some in the media insinuate that Israel is intentionally maiming Palestinians by shooting them in the lower leg. What would they prefer, that Israel shoot them in the head, heart, or abdomen? What clowns.

  6. Logic&Reason says

    May 14, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    Yep. Just watched our Canadian national mainstream news….

    “The Palestinians are merely PROTESTORS. The U.S. Embassy’s move to Jerusalem is CONTROVERSIAL.”

    Keep doing Islam’s bidding, you fools.

  7. Battle says

    May 14, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    “The mainstream news media should be called the seven letter “B”-words they are.

  8. Jay says

    May 15, 2018 at 12:01 am

    Liberal media, what a bunch of mental midgets!

  9. Guy Forester says

    May 15, 2018 at 12:38 am

    I think that anyone with more than two functioning neurons can figure out the truth of the situation there in Israel. Anyone dumb enough to try to scale or cut through that fence earns whatever the prize is.

  10. NotAFool says

    May 15, 2018 at 1:51 am

    There is a Palestinian state though. Jordan. It’s on 80% of what was British Mandate Palestine.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 12:34 am

      +1

  11. Hari Singh says

    May 15, 2018 at 3:35 am

    Absolutely Jordan is the Palestinian State. No bad media about the British appointed Hashemite monarch [originally from the Hejaz-Mecca area] taking the larger share of what was to be Palestine. The Hashemites stole from the so called Palestinians who though of it as lower Syria before Israel.
    Many Palestinian Arabs who came from the surrounding States, as Yasser Arafat, whose family came from Egypt as the British and Zionists developed the land. The Zionists never have enough workers and get them where they can from Kibbutz volunteers to Filipinos and even Indians.
    When I was in Jerusalem last year my Palestinian taxi driver-who left his comfortable life in Iraq due to the invasion, Said” I just brought a new Volkswagen I can’t afford another Intifada or was as it destroys tourism”. The Zionists embarrass the Arabs with what they have done with the Land so must be destroyed.

  12. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 15, 2018 at 4:53 am

    mr spencer, It appears to me that you and co have no iota of humaness. Fascist evil zionists have been carryingout mass killings of palestinians and you are turning your eyes away from reality on the ground. you mean the satan(sata spirit) in yahweh and his wife Ashera hero gods inspires you to applaud such wickedness? wickeds will not last.The day will come when satan will be arrested and confined.Then Justice will prevail and fascist evil zionists brought to Justice.

    • Brother Charles says

      May 15, 2018 at 6:06 am

      AH,AH, AH, You know nothing about our creator YAH , we were worshipping YAH thousands of years before the word muslim was invented , there is no mrs yah , there is no marriage in the SHAYMAHYIM , Get your head out of that book that causes mental illness, and enjoy your life in the name of YAHUWAH =YHWH .

    • Jayell says

      May 15, 2018 at 6:22 am

      Well, you learn something new on this site every day, often thanks to the immense wisdom of JW’s very own Mr. Muhammed. So old Yahweh got himself hitched and didn’t tell the rest of us. And Abraham & Co. never got a wedding invite, according to our Good Book. Clearly Mr. Muhammed’s Qur’an must have inside information, or did one of Mohammed’s literate chums work for the Daily Mail?

    • Buraq says

      May 15, 2018 at 6:25 am

      @ Ibe itace Muhamed

      Hi Habibi! You’re a 5-star clown! If the Israelis are evil fascists, why don’t they blow up Shifa Hospital in Gaza? After all, Shifa Hospital has underground tunnels where Hamas set up its HQ. A couple of bunker busters would rid the world of a nest of snakes bent on murdering every Jew on the planet.

      But because the Israelis care about innocent civilians – pregnant women, children, old men and the sick – Hamas knows it is safe to set up an HQ in a major hospital. They know the Israelis would NEVER blow up a hospital because they are humane and respect life.

      But tell me Habibi: Do you think for a moment that Hamas would not blow up a hospital if they thought it would be the end of the Israeli government. Would a sense of humanity stay their hand? Not a chance!!
      They are Neanderthal savages willing to use their own people as human shields.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 12:37 am

      What crap from Ibrahim itace muhammed.

      What he really means–as he has said before–is that Infidels have no right to defend against Jihad.

      He has also said that he seeks both the destruction of civilized Israel and the genocide of the Jews.

  13. Brother Charles says

    May 15, 2018 at 6:02 am

    Well at least you know where to send your old tyres ,to get rid of them .?

  14. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 15, 2018 at 9:37 am

    Buraq, your wicked zionist Masters can do more than blowing shifa hospital. They have been murdering Palestinan children and women for decades to depopulate palestinians as part of ethnic cleansing to own the land. your wicked unjust satan god (holy spirit) in yahweh and his wife Ashera hero gods endorses all these heinous crimes as stated in the obnoxious Talmud(for a jew to spill the bloods of non-jews is a sacrifice to God).

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 11, 2018 at 12:40 am

      Hamas has been using Al-Shifa Hospital as a bunker. But the Israelis still have never attacked this site.

      Yet more calumny.

  15. Bindon Blood says

    May 15, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    The EU must take a lot of the responsibility. It pumps millions of Euros into Palestine knowing that the money is used by Hamas to attack Israel.

    • WPM says

      May 16, 2018 at 8:15 am

      It makes the EU leaders progressives heart swell with PC inflated pride ,that they can send their taxpayers money to pay for violent terrorist activity in the only democracy in the Middle East ! The only place where they have middle class Moslems and poor Moslems who can elect leaders of their choose is Israel .

  16. brane pilot says

    May 16, 2018 at 8:02 am

    I thought it was brutally obvious by now.
    We do not have an independent media to keep us informed.
    We have ministries of propaganda promoting leftist political narratives of their globalist owners.
    When they do not have to make up their own propaganda, but can simply spew what someone else provides, so much the better.

  17. gravenimage says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 11:41 pm

    Establishment media uncritically reports Hamas’ sanitized version of violent Gaza border protests
    ………………

    Shameful.

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