In reporting on the new “Palestinian” jihad violence, the establishment media has been behaving the way it always does: demonizing Israel and retailing “Palestinian” jihad propaganda as fact.
“The New York Times turns an errant Hamas rocket into three paragraphs of anti-Israel propaganda,” Elder of Ziyon, May 11, 2021:
Yesterday, a missile hit the house of the Masri family in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killing at least seven including three children.
Israeli TV reported that the IDF confirmed that the missile was an errant Hamas rocket that fell short in Gaza.
USA Today reported:
(The article has been updated and no longer has this section.)
Ashraf has no idea if his family was killed by Israel or Hamas. He just wants to bury them.But something happened between that interview and when he spoke to the New York Times later. Now he is convinced it was an Israeli missile, and Israel is solely responsible for all suffering:But as the conflict expanded and the airstrikes began, it quickly became deadly.In Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, the Masri family was grieving for two young boys who were killed on Monday evening. Ibrahim, 11, and Marwan, 7, had been playing outside their home when a missile struck, according to their uncle, Bashir al-Masri, 25.For Mr. Masri, the attack showed that Israel had no concern for civilian life.“They target buildings with children, they target ambulances, they target schools,” he said by telephone. “And all the world, beginning with America, says that people in Gaza are terrorists. But we are not terrorists. We just want to live in peace.”He also called on Israel to end a blockade on Gaza that has placed heavy restrictions on goods and materials, lest they be used to make weaponry. The blockade, coupled with similar restrictions by Egypt, has crippled Gaza’s economy and led to high unemployment.“God knows how we live in Gaza — and the number one reason is the Israeli siege,” said Mr. Masri, who is one of the roughly 50 percent of Gazans without work. “They want to kill us. But they cannot.”Suddenly, Ashraf turned from a grieving relative with no idea how his family was killed into a Hamas spokesperson repeating anti-Israel talking points word for word .It appears that after the USA Today story where the source of the rocket was unclear, someone from Hamas got hold of Mr. Masri and told him that he is not to give the impression that anyone but Israel can be at fault….If the New York Times was truly interested in reporting the truth, they would have mentioned the IDF denial of shooting that rocket, and that many Gaza rockets have killed Gaza kids over the years, and that Mr. Masri had no idea where the missile came from, or that he acted very differently a few hours earlier. Instead they gave him a platform to propagandize on behalf of those who killed his family.
Infidel says
Not only is the fake news the enemy of the American people, as President Trump said, but it’s the enemy of all humanity!
James Lincoln says
The New York Times – please, someone stick a fork in it!
Keith O says
We all know the media lies, but can the New York Times please be a little less blatant about it?
gregbeetham says
The NYT lost credibility long ago; it might as well be a Pravda replacement for all the use it is at doing accurate reporting. Such a tragedy to see.
commonsense says
This “Palestinian,” al-Masri, actually comes from Egypt; his surname means “the Egyptian.” So much for his ancient Palestinian lineage. (Thanks, Mortimer, for a comment you posted some time ago exposing how many “Palestinians” are really relative newcomers to what was Mandatory Palestine, based on their surnames.)
Owen Morgan says
Good point.
gravenimage says
+1
Andrew Blackadder says
Im old enough to remember when the New York Times was a Newspaper of decency, respect, knowledge, journalism, but that was at least a generation ago.
Now it really is trash.
John says
Hard to believe in America that a paper like the NYT could publish such ‘Flip the Script’ garbage like this which insinuates Israel is killing innocent people all the while rockets are being rained down on them like hell for hours. How many people in Israel lived in terror and were killed during this attack on their country?
I can’t believe no one in America stands up for Israel. A real American President would stand up and tell the world that anyone who attacks Israel better get ready – You can run but you cannot hide! And we will come for you.
OLD GUY says
Israel needs and must defend its self strongly. The muslim/islamic countries will slaughter Israel if given the chance, while the freedom loving christian countries stand by and watch. Islam is the enemy of the free world, with islamic domination of the world as its goal.
Owen Morgan says
Did anyone from the NYT verify that the man on the phone was even who he claimed to be? At the very least, as Robert Spencer says, if the NYT was genuinely confident that the speaker was the man they expected to be talking to, something had happened to make him significantly differently informed. That would ring alarm bells for any competent journalist and might even encourage such a journalist to write a more authentically investigative piece.
But I forgot: there are no journalists at the NYT.
gravenimage says
New York Times uses errant Hamas rocket to claim Israel has ‘no concern for civilian life’
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So Muslims killing other Muslims is now somehow the fault of Israelis? Just grotesque.