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https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/383577/n-y-times-admits-hamas-lies/

So Hamas does lie, after all.

    Reporting on Israel’s elimination of another senior Hamas terrorist in Gaza on September 1, the Times noted, in the article’s second paragraph: “Hamas has rarely acknowledged the deaths of its leaders in real time, often taking weeks or months to concede their demise.”

    Weeks or months! The Times is, in effect, admitting that for weeks or months at a time, Hamas spokesmen lie—claiming that one or another of its leaders is alive, when in fact they’re dead.

    But how, then, does one explain this sentence in the thirteenth paragraph of the very same news article: “More than 60,000 people, including thousands of children, have been killed by the Israeli campaign in Gaza, according to local health officials…”

    The so-called “local health officials” are, in fact, officials of Hamas’s own Health Ministry. They serve an international terrorist organization, which is a crucially important fact because it goes to the question of their credibility as sources of information.

    Terrorist organizations routinely lie to the news media. They believe that telling lies is justified in order to advance their cause. A terrorist group that is in the midst of active warfare has even more incentive to lie, because its lies help stoke international pressure on the enemy.

    In the case of Gaza, the terrorist spokesmen have even less credibility (if that’s possible), because their lies already have been exposed, repeatedly, in this war. To cite just one example, Hamas told the international news media on October 17, 2023, that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing 471 people and wounding 342. Major media outlets dutifully reported that claim.

    A few days later, however, the truth came out, and even the New York Times admitted it: The explosion was caused by a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, not an Israeli air strike. The area that was struck was not the hospital, but an adjacent parking lot. And the actual number of dead at Al-Ahli was in the dozens, not the hundreds.

    If that episode was not enough to make one doubt the reliability of Hamas’s numbers, one should consider the fact that Hamas spokesmen routinely describe the Holocaust as a hoax. How can anything that comes from the mouth of a Holocaust denier be considered reliable? 

    Moreover, Article 32 of the official Hamas Charter cites The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as proof that there is a global Jewish conspiracy. How can any claim made by antisemitic conspiracy lunatics be considered truthful?

    Yet the New York Times still parrots Hamas’s casualty figures in Gaza—even in an article which elsewhere acknowledges that Hamas lies about the deaths of its leaders. What explains the decision by the Times and other media outlets to believe Hamas?

An Allegedly Armless Lebanese Child, Wounded by Israeli Bomb, Actually Has Both Arms Intact August 23, 1982

The difference today is that President Donald Trump has Israel’s back and is fighting antisemitism while Ronald Reagan turned away and abstained in the vicious UN response to Israel’s bombing  of  the Osirak nuclear research reactor being built near Baghdad. rsk

https://www.jta.org/archive/an-allegedly-armless-lebanese-child-wounded-by-israeli-bomb-actually-has-both-arms-intact

An allegedly armless child, whose picture is reportedly displayed on President Reagan’s desk as a symbol of suffering in Lebanon, turns out to be a boy, not a girl as alleged, with both arms intact. The child, identified as four-month-old Eli Massou, whose mother is 16 years old, was discharged from the hospital a few days after the picture was taken.

According to the caption accompanying the United Press International photo distributed throughout the world, it was a picture of a baby girl swathed in bandages after both arms had been blown off by a misdirected Israeli bomb. The child was seen held in the arms of a nurse.

After a news report that Reagan had publicized the picture as a symbol of suffering in the Lebanon war, the Israel medical corps started to track down the infant and the nurse holding him.

The nurse and the doctor who treated the baby were found, and sworn depositions were taken from them. The child was tracked down along with his mother in a Lebanese village where they had taken refuge after they were both released from the hospital.

According to the medical report, one of the infant’s arms was broken in a bombing raid. The arm and his face were also slightly burned. His mother was also slightly injured in the raid and his father was killed. Doctors said the child was completely swathed, as shown in the UPI photo, because that is the standard procedure of dealing with an infant whose arm has been broken to prevent unnecessary movement during medical treatment.

Photographs of the apparently now healthy baby were published in Israeli papers today. Copies have been sent to the Israel Embassy in Washington, which presumably sent a copy to the White House to replace the incorrectly-captioned picture on the President’s desk.

http://melaniephillips.substack.com

In the Gaza war, journalism has become a veritable Ponzi scheme of lies. It uses terrorists posing as journalists to tell lies, it lies about the evidence that they were terrorists and it lies about those lying about the lies.

Israel said it had conducted a targeted killing of the al Jazeera ‘‘journalist” Anas al Sharif because he was also a Hamas commander. It produced screen shots identifying al Sharif as a leader in a Hamas rocket-launching squad and member of the Nukhba force, the stormtroopers who led the depraved attack on Israelis on October 7 2023. It showed that he had joined Hamas in 2013 and even revealed his military ID number.

It further emerged that al Sharif was named in a lawsuit by American victims of October 7 against al Jazeera for providing “substantial assistance” to Hamas. The lawsuit quotes messages al Sharif posted on Telegram on October 7 as the massacre of 1200 Israelis developed. He wrote in one message:

Nine hours later and the heroes are still roaming the country, killing and capturing… God, God, how great you are.

He wrote in another:

It is a jihad, a jihad of victory and martyrdom. Allahu akbar and thank God.

Before the attack, Sharif posted photos of himself smiling alongside Hamas leaders, including the eliminated October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar.

None of that cut any ice with Western media outlets that vilified Israel for targeting a journalist. Instead, the media dismissed all this evidence with declarations that Israel’s claims couldn’t be verified and that it had provided “no proof”.

In other words there is simply no evidence, however overwhelming, that is allowed to challenge the foundational lie pumped out by the media echo-chamber that the Israelis are brutal killers mowing down the innocent for daring to resist.

So the media went into mourning for their slain champion of “truth”, presenting that view of al Sharif as unchallengeably correct while ignoring or rubbishing as an Israeli cover-up the evidence that he was a senior Hamas operative.