My latest in PJ Media:
First the Associated Press was exposed sharing an office building with Hamas in Gaza, which meant either that they were aware of Hamas’ activities and covered for the terror group, or didn’t know Hamas was there and are therefore the worst reporters in the world. And now comes more confirmation that what we are told are news organizations are actually propaganda arms not only for the Left’s agenda, but for the Palestinian Arab jihad against Israel. CNN on Saturday published an article entitled “Protests in support of Palestinians expected across the United States,” which was not so much a piece of reporting on those protests, but a free advertisement for them, complete with a case for why you should participate in your local orgy of Jew-hatred.
It doesn’t start out too badly: “Protesters are expected to rally in cities across the United States this weekend in support of Palestinians, as Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire ending days of destruction and bloodshed.” But immediately after that comes the staple of establishment media reporting on Israel and the Palestinians: the casualty count. “Since May 10,” CNN claims, “Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 243 people in Gaza, including 66 children, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Twelve people in Israel, including two children, died as a result of militant fire from Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces and Israel’s emergency service.”
Oh, hey, that’s bad: 243 Palestinians, including 66 children, were killed versus only twelve Israelis. The clear implication of CNN’s framing of the story here is that Israel responded in a disproportionate manner to the rockets Hamas fired into Israel, and indiscriminately bombed Gaza without regard for the lives of civilians. Reality is quite different. In the latest conflict, Hamas followed its longstanding practice of launching attacks from civilian areas so as to draw retaliatory fire that would harm civilians and be usable for propaganda purposes. This launching of attacks from civilian areas has been abundantly documented, even by the unflaggingly anti-Israel United Nations. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted Thursday: “It’s not easy fighting a terrorist organization that embeds its military infrastructure in civilian areas. We use the latest military technology to precisely strike Hamas targets, while minimizing damage to the surrounding areas.”
Also, casualty figures can be severely misleading. 419,400 Americans were killed in World War II; over five million Germans were killed. Does this mean that Nazi Germany had the moral high ground, and the United States was in the wrong? Of course not. But CNN presents the figures without any information on Hamas’ use of human shields. It mentions that use only as an Israeli accusation, without any mention of the UN’s findings: “Thousands of protesters gathered for rallies last weekend, stretching from New York to California. Protesters showed support for Palestinians and accused the Israeli government of using disproportionate force and bombing densely-populated civilian areas indiscriminately. The Israeli government has accused Hamas of launching rocket attacks from those population centers.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Infidel says
Sometimes, when I watch totally unrelated videos on YouTube, ISRA ads come out w/ pure Pali propaganda against Israel. It doesn’t matter whether the channel is pro-islamic or not: I still get bombarded w/ the same ?
Have all the DHS regulations governing terrorism disappeared? If not, why not go after CNN legally for an in-kind contribution to terrorism? I know it won’t happen w/ the Dems in power, but I doubt that even the GOP would make such a move against them
CogitoErgoSum says
Try using the Brave browser for watching videos on YouTube. It has a built-in ad blocker and works great for me so that I can watch videos without interruption. You can disable the Brave ad blocker on other sites or you can switch to another browser for sites where you don’t mind the ads showing up.
James Lincoln says
C.E.S.,
Does the “Brave” browser have any advantage over “Duck Duck Go”?
Infidel says
Lincoln, Duck Duck Go is a search engine, and aggregates results from others, such as Google and Bing: however, it doesn’t hide or bury the most relevant results according to anyone’s biases. Brave otoh is a browser, which has ad blocking capabilities that even overrides Google’s ads
If you look at the Google counterparts, Duck Duck Go is an alternative to the Google search engine, while Brave is an alternative to Google Chrome
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for the clarification, Infidel!
alberto gorin says
i reply to you can t find to post
under the oslo agreement was 10 years of suicide bombs on public busses
how many people can sit in a bus 30 40
40 people blow up over 10 years
how many?
mortimer says
CNN doesn’t give Israel equal time to put forth their side of the story. When you compare the two sides, it is obvious which side is lying and which side is truthful.
The Pally propaganda and taqiyya are obvious to any non-Muslim and to any non-Marxist and to many of the Marxists as well.
Islam rarely expresses any thought that is not couched in ambiguous double-talk.
Keith O says
Ah, the Clinton News Network at it’s best.
Inciting violence to create more news stories for them to twist into what their masters want the sheeples to believe.
Infidel says
It may have been Clinton News Network in the 90s. It’s the Caliphate/Communist News Network now
James Lincoln says
+1
Wellington says
This is yet another consequence of a total nothing now being POTUS. Were Trump still President all this Hamas and Palestinian victim garbage would not be going on, aided of course by a disgraceful entity like CNN.
The bad guys of the world smell weakness and Biden’s weakness is an extra metaphorical stench smelled around the earth. The shutting down of the Colonial Pipeline, which could not have occurred without Putin’s knowledge (one knows this or should know this), serves as another example of the rogue element of man taking advantage of a weak ruler of a strong state. What is occurring on America’s southern border since late January functions as another example of how the detritus of mankind (and sex traffickers and drug traffickers are most definitely part of the detritus of mankind and they are existent in huge numbers right now on both sides of the Rio Grande) will come out in droves when what should be strong is no longer strong.
Besides, the election was stolen from Trump. Doubt me? Well then, and putting aside the massive amounts of evidence in the swing states of fraud from around midnight onwards on November 4th of last year, consider that the two main entities, the Democratic Party and the MSM, now saying that fraud did not occur in the 2020 election, never mind thousands of affidavits signed upon penalty of perjury testifying to fraud of all kinds in said election, were the very same two entities WITH NO EVIDENCE who asserted for years, not months, that the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. Failing here, the Democrats, aided by their ally the MSM, impeached Trump over a phone call and thereafter about a tempest in a teapot called the Capitol riot of January 6th in which the only person killed was a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt by name, and after Trump said to protest “peacefully and patriotically”—unlike Democrats like Waters, Pressley, Harris and Pelosi, who encouraged the thug groups, BLM and Antifa, to continue their violent, deadly and highly costly riots all across America during much of 2020. Oh yes indeed, the Democratic Party and MSM have phoniness written all over them, aided by a veritable plethora of cowardly RINOs.
The world is an extra mess because a weakling, an utter mediocrity (and with early dementia no less), is now in possession of the most powerful office on earth. And so thanks again to all those idiots out there who ACTUALLY voted for Biden—and please note the word “ACTUALLY” which I used. So tired of those continuing to convey to me that the election was stolen from Trump by dummy votes. I KNOW THAT! I’m even more irritated with your standard idiot who really did vote for Biden than the dark forces operating behind the scenes who insured the 2020 US Presidential election was a sham. And now we are living daily with the results of that sham election which a minimum of 70% of Republicans when polled have indicated was indeed a cruel farce, a con game, of the worst kind.
Screw CNN. Screw all those who support the so-called Palestinians. Screw all those those who voted for Biden or stole the election from Trump.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to survive—and will survive. So will America—in spite of Biden, his handlers and his exceedingly foolish supporters. What a world we live in. The fact that Islam is still paid any respect and Israel is consistently denigrated testifies to this—easily so. More often than not, man is a collective idiot.
Infidel says
+?
James Lincoln says
Perfectly stated, Wellington. My compliments.
The big question is what will happen after the Maricopa County full forensic audit finds massive fraud in the 2020 US Presidential Election.
And yes, they *will* find massive fraud…
Infidel says
Problem in Maricopa is that the Senate is mainstream GOP, but the county GOP officials are all McCain/Flake Republicans who want to sabotage the theory that Trump actually would have won it. In the process, they are providing Dems talking points that “See, even Republicans are not on board w/ what Trump tools in the Arizona senate are doing”
People who claim that all Republican factions need to unite might as well preach that shi’a get together w/ sunnis: they’ll have better luck there
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
You are correct, many forces are gathering to derail or at least delegitimize the forensic audit. And this includes, of course, the horrific RINOs.
That being said…
One prominent figure spearheading the effort is Dr. Kelli Ward, current chair of the Arizona Republican Party. She is a family practice physician colleague and a staunch Trump supporter. I have spoken with her several times at medical conferences and I had supported her run for U.S. Senate. As far as she is concerned, the audit *will be* completed as planned.
I am nearly 100% certain that the audit will find evidence of fraud, the only variable being the depth and scope. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that the fraud will be massive…
Infidel says
Dr Kelli Ward is a great hero – batted for Trump back when both McCain and Flake were busy backstabbing him. Too bad she went down fighting that loser Martha McSally – who managed to lose both the Arizona senate seats to the Dems
john smith says
Totally agree Wellington, I cannot find fault in a single word there.
gravenimage says
CNN Runs Free Advertising for Protests in Support of Palestinian Jihad
…………..
Just horrifying. I just wish I could really be surprised.
Ray Jarman says
In the statement concerning the death ratio during WWII, it should be mentioned that in Dresden alone, more than 25,000 citizens were killed when the city was turned into a huge inferno. Also Hiroshima and Nagasaki come to mind. These acts saved thousand if not more than a million American and Allied forces by these horribly necessary acts of self defense.
zul says
Yes, more navy would be in inferno by kamikaze pilots.
James Lincoln says
Ray,
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki also, in the long run, likely saved millions of Japanese lives that would have been lost during a conventional invasion by the Allied forces.
https://thediplomat.com/2014/08/how-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-saved-millions-of-lives/
gravenimage says
True, James.
Fred van de Bunt says
I wander how this sells to other parts of the world?
A selling point of the West used to be their human rights and respect for every soul, no matter race, religion of color? But now:
“Kill the Jews, that dirty race, Allah hates you. We love Hitler!!”
BlackSabbath says
It is no just CNN. Even local news such as AM radios are transmitting jihad propaganda. It would be good if people take initiative write to these news agencies to express discontent.
This is what I wrote to a local radio station.
“Please try to make some sense when you report Israeli issues. The rocket launching terrorists are not victims. Every nation has right to defend itself. If you do not have any common sense, then do not be in the news business. Buy a hotdog stand instead.”
And this was their response:
“Thanks for taking the time to write us. I’m not sure exactly what you saw/heard that prompted this email. But I can assure you we go to great lengths to be fair and accurate in all of our reporting. Can you please provide additional details about what concerned you?”
I will continue to write them and provide more specifics in the future. A good feedback from the audience can sometimes help.
Infidel says
They just gave you that response for your consumption. In reality, they are heavily biased towards Muslims and Islamic causes, and have nothing to lose by it. Real solution is getting them canceled by their advertisers – that’s the only thing that will teach them that supporting the jihad is at least as expensive as opposing it
gravenimage says
Yes–this is becoming increasingly common even at the local level. Very disturbing stuff.
JCA Reid says
Thought Palestine was self – Governing. They hold elections, then the folk they voted in decide, NOT to hold anymore! Don’t think any Jews stand for to be elected to the Palestinian Legislature. So, in the Middle East 9 Millions Jews cause all the bother, surrounded by Millions upon Millions of Arabs who want them Exterminated.This is typical. Very similar to the Nazis in Germany. The Nazi Party led a country of then 83 Million lump ALL their ills on 1/2 of 1% of the population – the Jews. World wide 15 Million Jews have contributed more to Humankind than 1.5 Billion Muslim ever have. Thought folk were supposed to root for the underdog.
Infidel says
When this was an Arab-Israeli conflict, and involved 5 or more countries, people elsewhere in the world did root for the underdog. After their disaster in 1967, the Arabs, inspired by the Soviets, rebranded it as an Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so that a conflict that had 300M+ Arabs pitted against some 5M Jews was re-branded as one of 2M Palestinians vs 5M Jews. And if one looks at a map, the Palis are definitely overwhelmed
Sometimes I think the Zionists would have done well to call their country Palestine instead of Israel. Then the Soviets would have had to come up w/ another less authentic identity for the Arabs of that area. Not to mention the inconvenient fact that under both Arabs and Turks, the entire Levant was governed from Damascus as ash-Sham, which has variously been translated into either the Levant, or Syria. Of course, the Arabs wouldn’t tolerate the idea of Syria running things, as it would give the Alawites even more widespread control over sunni Arabs
somehistory says
I just read an article written by Ben Stein; began reading on Newsmax and finished on The American Spectator. Ben Stein’s Diary “A Terrifying Time in Beverly Hills”
It is his personal experience of having been threatened by some male mozlums while driving in his home town.
It’s incredible how fast things have moved from the day when people would say, “Never again,” and now…when it is “again.” It’s as if we have all been transplanted to another place and time.
Infidel says
That’s what I was noting in another thread about muslims assaulting Jews in Germany: ‘Never Again’ is a thing of the past
somehistory says
I once thought it actually meant something. I have German ancestry, and two aunts were actually born there, grew up there during the war and married my mom’s brothers. They came to live in the U.S.
One of them talked hardly at all about anything, except to her husband.
The other one spoke some about life in Germany, indicating how fearful they were of protesting the evil.
Having seen/read/heard a lot of history since then, spoken with a nazi guard who was in one of the “camps”…I realized that not all were like my aunts.
But, I still thought what was done was so very horrible, that people wouldn’t allow that to happen again…to any group, but esp the Jews.
Sadly, though hitler met his end, and the trials were held, nazis have been hunted down and made to pay somewhat, camps have been exposed fir what they were, it was never completely eradicated from hearts.
mozlums hate. mozlums hate Jews and Christians and anyone who refuses to bow down to their false ‘prophet’ and their fake ‘god.’ And they act on it and now, so many sit back and allow it.
I do believe that these attacks all over the world are a direct result of such things as what biden has done and said, and what is being allowed in Congress…by the despicable omar and tlaib…and their henchwomen.
gregbeetham says
It was very dangerous to utter a word of dissent in WW2 Germany but there were some incredibly brave civilian individuals just the same, not that it did much good, they ended up before a firing squad after a Nazi court trial like the brother and sister who distributed anti Nazi leaflets. The Wehrmacht shot about 80 of their own generals, they were probably scapegoats mostly but symptomatic of a totalitarian system that feeds on itself and no system of government is completely immune from such a thing in an ‘emergency’.
There is a very true to life depiction of the discovery of an extermination camp by the 101st airborne toward the end of the war after having fought their way across Germany, it was toward the last couple of episodes in the series ‘Band of Brothers’ , very graphic and disturbing.
Andrew Blackadder says
i stopped watching CNN ages ago, so long ago I cant even remember, however now and again somebody may send me a video clip and I find it amazing that those two wee Gay soy boys on CNN are falling over themselves to defend a religion that wishes to throw them off the Rooftop, while they denigrate Israel that has one of the largest Gay Parades in the entire World.
Am I missing something here?.