End of the week briefs

But–but–but Jimmy Carter said Hamas wants peace! The second ranking Hamas official flatly states that any agreement with Israel would be considered a hudna–in other words, just a trick until Hamas can figure out how to destroy Israel. Compare that with all of the lies Jimmy Carter has said about how Hamas wants peace. Yeah. The peace of the grave, as I like to put it. Gee, you think the AP will pick up this article and put it front and center the way they would if, say, the Foreign Minister of Israel said that the Palestinians weren’t peace partners? Oh, come on. You know they won’t so much as mention it, or if they do, it will be so elided as to be unrecognizable.

Oh, bullshit: I don’t care how many times he claims that he “sharpened his aim” with video games. Shooting a gun is NOTHING like playing a video game. The fact that the media uncritically repeats this lie just proves that no one in the media has ever fired a weapon. Here’s a hint at one tiny little difference: There’s no kickback from a video game weapon.

Yeah, I’m thinking this guy’s never getting back in the IDF: More video footage shows the unprofessional behavior of Lt. Col. Eisner. I don’t care what the provocations might have been–his actions weren’t riot control. Time for the IDF to start training professional riot control teams.

Gee, why don’t they depend on their Muslim brothers for help? A profile of Israel’s new facility for illegal immigrants that never seems to notice that in order to get to Israel, the migrants must first go through Egypt. And they don’t stop there. Funny how that works. Reuters also profiles the illegal immigrant influx as well. Both articles push the “Bad Bibi doesn’t want immigrants” meme. Why isn’t the UN Committee on Refugees helping out? Because they’re not Palestinian refugees?

And get a load of this dose of media bias. Here’s the second paragraph:

Now in Israel, the 26-year-old migrant from Eritrea said she was freed only after a $30,000 ransom was delivered in cash to Israeli accomplices of her Bedouin Arab captors.

What do they leave out? Why, the identifier that would show that the “Israeli accomplices” are Israeli Arab accomplices–an important distinction. Where is that information published? Five paragraphs from the end of this very long piece.

The suspect, an Israeli Arab, has since been charged with extorting tens of thousands of dollars in ransom for Hrity and other Eritrean nationals and transferring the money to their captors in Egypt.

Just another day in the anti-Israel media narrative.