Leave the narrative alone! Evil, baby-killing IDF soldiers… deliver and save a Palestinian baby. But wait: The Palestinian woman is happy and grateful
Shirin is grateful for the care she was given and says she would like to meet the soldiers who helped her. “I would like to thank the soldiers who greatly helped me and wish them health,” she says.
Oh, come on. Everyone knows that IDF soldiers leave Palestinian women standing in line at checkpoints so that they have their babies too soon and the babies die. We’ve seen that story a million times in the media. This one? Unless you read Israeli media, forget about it. You won’t ever see this in the AP.
And yet, the mainstream media keeps telling us that young Israelis are leaving in droves: A new survey shows that 8 out of 10 Israeli teens want to serve in combat units. Compare this news to the constant stream you read about how Israelis don’t want to serve in the IDF. (Ah, if only the narrative were true, wouldn’t this be a perfect world for the media and the left?) On the flip side, non-enlistment rates are expected to reach 20%. On the flip side of that, when 80% of your citizens want to enlist in the armed service and serve their country, you’ve got one hell of a good thing.
Yet another missile from Gaza, yet another non-event to the anti-Israel media: Yep, four more mortars launched from Gaza. PIJ took credit. Expect to see some dead terrorists soon. And of course, when that happens, the AP will put up articles headlined “Three Palestinians killed by Israel” without giving any context.
Pay attention to the Ynet story. First it says the woman went into labor at the checkpoint. Then in the third and fourth paragraphs it indicates she went into labor elsewhere and was inaccessible. In other words the checkpoint was the rallying point for the IDF to gather and then locate and rescue her. If I’m correct, it was the checkpoint that saved her life! If that’s true, it doesn’t fit the narrative, does it?