Ambassador Erdan said: “AP is one of the most important news agencies in the world and Israel doesn’t think that AP employees were aware it was being cynically used in this way by Hamas for a secret unit.”
They weren’t aware? They’re supposed to be reporters. And they didn’t even know that jihad terrorist activity was going on in their own building?
AP is either abjectly incompetent or complicit with Hamas’ genocidal jihad against Israel. Gilad Erdan would have been closer to the truth if he had told Pruitt and Phillips that he knew AP was not a news source, but a propaganda arm for the hard-Left and the global jihad, and would treat it accordingly. Instead, he kept up the pretense that he was dealing with a news organization.
“Ambassador Erdan meets AP president, says Hamas had Iron Dome jammer in AP building,” Arutz Sheva, June 8, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations Gilad Erdan visited the Associated Press headquarters in New York where he met with President and CEO Gary Pruitt and Vice President of International News Ian Phillips. During his visit, Ambassador Erdan reaffirmed that Israel upholds the importance of press freedom and ensures the safety of journalists wherever they are reporting.
Ambassador Erdan reiterated that the multistory building housing the AP in Gaza, which was destroyed last month in an airstrike, also housed the facilities of Hamas’ military intelligence, its R&D department and a tech unit.
“The unit was developing an electronic jamming system to be used against the Iron Dome defense system,” said Ambassador Erdan, officially informing for the first time why Hamas’ operation in that building posed such an imminent threat to Israeli civilians and was prioritized by the IDF.
Ambassador Erdan added that “AP is one of the most important news agencies in the world and Israel doesn’t think that AP employees were aware it was being cynically used in this way by Hamas for a secret unit.”
The ambassador went on to assure the news agency that “Israel did everything it could to make sure that no employees or civilians were hurt during this important operation.”…
gravenimage says
Israeli ambassador meets with Associated Press top dog, tells him Hamas had Iron Dome jammer in AP building
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AP staff either knew, or they don’t have the right to be considered investigative reporters.
Keith O says
Very smart of the Israeli’s to say this as a means of keeping the AP from going batcrap crazy on them.
“Keep your friends closer and your enemies closer”!
Infidel says
I don’t think that AP is incompetent: I think that as an organization, they are anti-Israel (like the BBC) and have no problems getting into the same building as Hamas
Wellington says
Seconded.
Would that the AP was “merely” incompetent. The bastards are complicit.
gravenimage says
Almost certainly the case.
mgoldberg says
And nowhere have I seen any mea culpa from AP for having the hamas technical unit in their own building, of course hiding their own terrorists and actually using the site as an instrument to attack Israeli civilians. Nowhere that I’m aware of do I see any in depth statement asking how they could have been fooled and aided so much destruction. Hamas is evil enough, But AP is complicit and gets away with it by shrugging their shoulders and looking about like they’re innocent victims themselves.
gregbeetham says
It is probably best to play along the weasels at AP that you think they are a news organization even though that nest of vipers need a bomb dropped on them.
It would be good if Israel could get some evidence that they are in bed with Hamas and favour their perspective at the expense of Israel’s security.
If those Hamas retards didn’t attack Israel there would be no attacks by Israel on them, but that seems to escape the attention of AP.