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Hugh Fitzgerald: How the AP Covered the Murder of Ori Ansbacher (Part One)

Apr 3, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

The AP’s report on the murder of an Israeli girl, Ori Ansbacher, and on the deaths of two “Palestinian” teenagers, left much to be desired.

The body of Ori Ansbacher, 19, was found in the woods in the West Bank near Jerusalem on Thursday with stabbing wounds. She was buried Friday in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa amid calls by hard-line Jews for revenge.

First, Ansbacher had been working as a volunteer counsellor at the Yeelim Youth Center. That ought to be been reported; it would have made her more than just a name.

Second, calling the Israelis at her funeral “hard-line Jews” already undermines them. What makes them “hard-line”? Apparently the fact that they had had enough of Arabs killing Jews, and wanted whoever had raped, killed, and mutilated the body of Ori Ansbacher to be caught, tried, and given a death sentence. These were not calls “for revenge,” but for appropriate punishment, by which these Israelis, in their despair and revulsion at the killing, meant capital punishment. Many people may not realize that despite the most horrific atrocities by “Palestinians,” Israel has never imposed that punishment on any Arab murderers. Only one person has been executed by the state in Israel’s entire history: Adolf Eichmann.

Over 600,000 Jewish settlers live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories the Palestinians want as part of their future state. Most of the international community views the settlements as illegal.

This paragraph is both tendentious and irrelevant. It has no business being in this story, which is about the murder (and rape, and mutilation of the body) of an Israeli teenager, Ori Ansbacher, and the killing of two “Palestinian” teenagers who were engaged in the Great March of Return, to breach Israel’s security fence. Why is there mention of  the “Israeli-occupied” West Bank and east Jerusalem, and why include the claim that the “Palestinians” want those territories “as part of their future state”? Is it meant to be an oblique justification, or at least explanation, for the rape and murder of Ori Ansbacher? Was she attacked because she was living in the “Israeli-occupied” West Bank? Would that have made her killing more understandable? Of course not; her attacker had no idea where she came from, nor would it have mattered if he did. He knew only that she was Jewish, and defenseless. He needed no other reason.

The remark that “the Palestinians want as part of their future state” the West Bank and east Jerusalem  is misleading. Most Palestinians, when asked, say clearly that they want their “Palestine” to replace all of Israel. They want the Jewish state to disappear. They deny that the Jews have a legitimate claim, any historic link, to the land. They want a “Palestine” that stretches “from the river to the sea.” This paragraph suggests they have more modest territorial ambitions.

If the whole paragraph were not to be omitted, it at least should be reduced to this: “Ori Ansbacher was raised in Tekoa, and thus was one of the 600,000 Israelis who live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories Israel won in the Six-Day War.” That has the virtue of being true, and it leaves out both the loaded word “settlers” and the loaded phrase “Israel-occupied.” And of what relevance to this story is the fact that “most of the international community views the settlements as illegal”? Most of the “international community” will vote for any anti-Israel resolution the Arab and Muslim lobby chooses to propose at the U.N. So what? Israel has a considerable legal and historic claim to those territories, based on the original Palestinian Mandate, on Resolution 242’s call for “secure and defensible borders,” and on the rules by which victors in a war customarily get to keep some of their spoils. That quite unnecessary last sentence about the supposed “illegality of the settlements” contributes nothing to the story of the killing of Ori Ansbacher. It only serves to undermine Israel.

Even more disturbing is what is not reported: that many “Palestinians” regard Israeli civilians as legitimate targets for murderous attack, that they know both that the Israelis will not execute them, no matter how many murders they commit, and that the Palestinian Authority will provide generous support to jailed terrorists, and if they are killed, to their families, in what is known as a “Pay For Slay” program.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended the security forces for “apprehending — within a few hours — the abhorrent murderer.” He expressed condolences to Ansbacher’s family.

Prime Minister Netanyahu did not merely “express condolences” to Ori Ansbacher’s family. He went to Tekoa to express his condolences directly to her family. There is a difference.

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  1. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 10:24 am

    The Muslim murderer stabbed Ori, many many times; he then raped her, and mutilated her. It seems, from the accounts that I read in the Israeli English-language press, that the Muslim *raped her as she lay dying from the multiple stab wounds that he had inflicted upon her*.

    The only thing within the west even remotely approaching this sort of frenzied overkill and the will-to-degrade-and-humiliate, is what we see in the very worst psycho serial killers.

    But if one reads the historical accounts of jihad one finds *multiple* similar atrocities, carried out on the grand scale.

    One example, of many: In the Muslim jihad massacres in Bulgaria in the 19th century, jihadis rounded up a group of young girls – probably preteens and teenagers. They raped them constantly; in between going out on killing sprees. And then, finally, they slit the girls’ throats. That is: first they raped, repeatedly; *then* they murdered. This evil, unutterably evil Muslim thug did similar, only he mortally wounded the girl and then raped her **while she was dying**… depravity could hardly go further.

    I agree with those in Israel who are calling for capital punishment of the rapist-murderer.

    • Kay says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 1:19 pm

      They were not revealing the condition of her body because it was so horrific. How/when did you find out?

    • carpediadem says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 1:38 pm

      @dumbledoresarmy

      It reminds me of the horror of the Anita Cobby case in Australia. Same kind of mercilessness and brutality.

    • alex says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 9:24 pm

      I think that those young female Scandavian campers in Morocco received a similar treatment from the ISIS terrorists there. The Moroccan courts should definitely sentence though murderers to capital punishment. However, I wonder if that will happen, because the 2 girls were non-Muslim, and it’s possible that some Shariah-leaning Moroccan judges and officials may not believe in in the death penalty for Muslims who murder kuffars (if the particular judges consider Daesh members/sypathizers to be true Muslims). Israel should definitely seekster the death penalty for the murder of the 19-year-old girl. If the perp were prosecuted, convicted and executed, burial in swine leather would also be correct. As well, all law-abiding Israeli adults should be allowed to pack firearms for self-defense, or to defend others from Islamist aggressors. Universal Krav Maga training (including for teens and even young children) should also be mandatory.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Apr 5, 2019 at 9:43 am

        Pig leather’s too good for them. Pigs are smart and fiercely protect their babes. China has it right – Islam is a mental illness. Anyone who properly knows it and accepts it is an unfit human.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 9:47 pm

      Dumbledore’s Army wrote:

      One example, of many: In the Muslim jihad massacres in Bulgaria in the 19th century, jihadis rounded up a group of young girls – probably preteens and teenagers. They raped them constantly; in between going out on killing sprees. And then, finally, they slit the girls’ throats.
      ………………………………..

      DDA, here is the great painter Konstantin Makovsky’ work, “The Bulgarian Martyresses”, depicting just this horror. This painting was instrumental in inspiring Balkan resistance–and that of their allies–against the terrible Muslim oppression of the Ottoman Empire.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 5, 2019 at 9:12 pm

        I forgot the link. Here it is:

        http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/88/8865/I8US300Z/posters/konstantin-yegorovich-makovsky-the-bulgarian-martyresses-1877.jpg

  2. Rotem says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 10:40 am

    They call JUDEA & SAMARIA “West Bank”, , because this way they don’t have to say JUDEA (where Jews came from). This is how an entire ridge of MOUNTAINS turned into a “bank” of a rive that flows way east and down below sea level – straight to the lowest point of earth.

    As for “Palestinians” – these were JEWS who were carried that silly title, during the British Mandate. The Arabs saw themselves as a part of the great Arab Nation (“Uma Al-Arabia”) and their leader REJECTED this term. Well, this is up until summer 1964, when the PLO established by the Arab summit, with the involvement of the Russian government.

    So who are the people at AP who make this “News”?
    Well, if you go to their offices in London, you’;ll find all sort of migrants from Algiria, Saudi Aarabia, Lebanon and other Arab states.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 9:54 pm

      So true, Rotem.

  3. Naram-Sin says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    No people have been less deserving of their own state than the “Palestinians”. They should never be given a state let alone one that is on land that was originally promised to the Jews when the Ottoman empire fell. The entire Mandate of Palestine was promised to the Jews, yet they accepted Jordan being carved out for Arabs and they accepted the west bank and other areas being sliced off to get a state they were promised. Did the Arabs agree? No, they decided to try to kill the Jews. The Jews survived and offered the Arabs peace. Still the Arabs wanted them dead. The Arabs remained at war and lost the west bank that had been annexed by Jordan. When Israel offered it back, Jordan refused. Israel is the only country that has a claim on the west bank.

    By the way, the same process the created Israel also created Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, and Jordan. If Israel is illegitimate so are those countries. There is no authority giving the west bank to the “Palestinians,” other than Israel’s misguided attempts to make peace with them. The “Palestinians” signed the Oslo accords decades ago, but they won’t even show Israel on their maps. They were offered almost everything they wanted, but Arafat told Israel to “go to hell” and launched the intifada because it would leave Israel intact and Muslims don’t make peace with Jews and Christians when they have the upper hand (offering the “Palestinians” everything they wanted could be viewed as nothing but weakness). The “Palestinians” have refused peace and seek to wage an unending war of extermination. You can’t make peace with people who want you dead. The people who want you dead will never make peace so long as they think they can win. This is why President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem and the Golan as Israeli territory. Start stripping away land that the “Palestinians” want and keep doing it until they realize that if they don’t make peace there won’t be anything left is the only why to get them to make peace. But remember, it won’t last, they still want the Jews dead, they will always hate the Jews and will break any treaty the moment it suits them, just as Mohammad taught.

    “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” For Israel it is also the price of life. It’s the same for any non-Muslim facing Islam. We all live in Dar al-Harb (house of war). Israel just happens to be on the front lines, although those front lines are slowly creeping into an ignorant western world.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Apr 5, 2019 at 10:25 am

      The probable truth about these muslim “Palestinians” is that their “cause” and continued presence there is nothing but a RIBAT in disguise. A willful battering ram with martyr’s perfume on it.

  4. Kay says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    Good article here. Thanks.
    The coverage of Ori’s murder was hardhearted at best.

  5. Guy Forester says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    I have no words to describe how I feel about this story. Now that Fox was bought by Disney, do not expect anything that resembles facts, accuracy, and truth to show up anywhere that is easily found by the average person. We will now get inundated by more celebrity gossip, newsmercials, infomercials, opinionated yellow journalism, and useless claptrap.

    Meanwhile, people like this young woman are murdered (and worse), a 91 year old goes to jail for speaking his mind, and daily atrocities against Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus never make the news.

    My opinion: Israel needs to do for Judea and Samaria what was done for the Golan heights. Unfortunately, that should have happened within 1 year of the 6 day war completion. Good luck doing that now. BTW, that entire area WEST of the Jordan river was earmarked for Jewish control and settlements. You can find this on old maps (yes, I have one). The area EAST of the Jordan was “Transjordan.” The area WEST of the Jordan was British Mandate “Palestine”. Neither were independent nations. “Palestine” was earmarked for Jewish settlement, but we know how well that has worked.

  6. Lory Gustafson says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 11:18 pm

    I don’t enjoy reading these true reports, but I keep coming back to Jihad Watch – because – of the up-to-date- and- factual reporting . So sad for this lovely girl that was 🙁

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 10:02 pm

      +1

  7. na says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 12:28 am

    What a beautiful girl. Arabs looks like pigs.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 10:02 pm

      This is not about ethnicity, but ideology.

      • Minas says

        Apr 5, 2019 at 6:44 am

        Correct, there are many pious Christian Arabs.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 5, 2019 at 11:34 pm

          True, Minas.

  8. Max says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 1:46 am

    For most of the media, Muslims have a right to feel victims, and consequently any criminal act that they carry out against Jews or Westerners is justified. If you disagree with this statement, they considered you to be a hard-liner.

    • Kay says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 9:24 am

      I wondered what a “hard line Jew” is.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 4, 2019 at 10:05 pm

        One who doesn’t want to be murdered by Muslims?

  9. gravenimage says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald: How the AP Covered the Murder of Ori Ansbacher (Part One)

    The body of Ori Ansbacher, 19, was found in the woods in the West Bank near Jerusalem on Thursday with stabbing wounds. She was buried Friday in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa amid calls by hard-line Jews for revenge.
    ………………………..

    Yes, this is appalling. Note the use of the passive–it sounds as though no one actually stabbed this poor girl to death, after raping her. And note–stabbing a young girl to death is not characterized as aggressive, but wanting her rapist and murderer caught *is*.

    More:

    Over 600,000 Jewish settlers live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories the Palestinians want as part of their future state. Most of the international community views the settlements as illegal.
    ………………………..

    This makes it sound as though this girl *deserved* to be raped and murdered. *Sickening*.

    And–as noted–the local “Palestinian” Muslims do not want the “West Bank” alone to be part of a future state, but they want to see all of Israel destroyed.

    Appalling coverage from the Associated Press.

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