Noah Pollak observed about a headline in the Washington Post alleging that Israel had rejected a truce with Hamas:
But nothing of the sort happened; no truce has been offered by anyone involved, least of all Hamas, and there is nothing in the story that even begins to substantiate the claim made in the headline. The headline is simply fabricated from whole cloth, a piece of naked propaganda designed to portray Israel as an unreasonable aggressor.
Mere Rhetoric, Meryl and Elder of Ziyon noticed something else: The AP uncritically reported a false claim of Hamas that Israel had violated a truce understanding over the weekend.
This raises the question: Did the Washington Post’s headline writer decide to insert his own take on the conflict into the headline based on the false AP report?
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
The current Reuters headline on the conflict: “Israel rejects truce, presses on with Gaza strikes.” Despite the clear implication that Hamas has sued for a truce and the unreasonable and barbaric Israelis press ahead, no truce has been proposed by Hamas, as implied by the headline. Rather, as revealed in the article, both sides have rejected external suggestions of a truce. Biased? Inflammatory? Anti-Israel? Of course.
I hope Isreal blasts those idiots back to the stone age.
It is a common practice for those cowards (Hamas) to set up a rocket or mortar battery by a school or hospital. And those NATO wussies are calling Isreal inhumane.
Can the US pull out of NATO any time soon? Please?
Did the headline writer need a report to insert an anti-Israel bias? I doubt it since anti-Israel sentiment is rampant in the press.
LOL if you can’t blame it on Bush, blame it on Israel…The Washington Post has always been a sad little paper
I’m not sure Scott J. meant to be critical of NATO, but maybe he meant the UN. Yes they are wussies. We need to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
Also, I think the Washington Post is in general a conservative paper, but I could be wrong on that. They are definitely more so than the NY and LA Times.
Isn’t it queer how everyone is so critical of how the US is pro-Israel, yet everyone else in the world is pro-Palestinian?
Did you catch the WH press conference yesterday with the debuty press secretary Johndroe? Young,smart and really handled the hostile questions of the press with witty aplomb. A new star on the rise.
Greetings:
Smite them, hip and thigh
Years ago as a Latino I used to feel simpathy for the palestinians, but now I feel that what drives most of this radical groups is just pure racist hate towards Israel and I am starting to understand better what is really going on there, and I am telling you I am not alone…
Well, this might make you feel better:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050201457.html
Robert
What drives these radicals is not race, but their total commitment to Allah and his prophet. Their distain is for all, regardless of race, who do not embrace Islam. Israel is first among those who are hated, but they are only first among the non-muslem world who must convert, be slain or submit to muslim rule in the most degrading ways. The Quran and the Hadith demand it, and every true believer must strive for it.
You and I may be next…or perhaps it will be after Holland, Britian, France or Italy.
Ed Escobar, what you are feeling has been described by Great Satan’s Girlfriend (http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/) as PSF, or Palestinian Sympathy Fatigue. For the past eight years Gaza has been described as “an Imminent Humanitarian Disaster”, while true humanitarian disasters such as Darfur are swept under the rug.
It gets tiring hearing about how evil Israel has starved and beaten poor little Gaza, yet somehow Israel finds time to repair Gazan power stations (at night, and under combat conditions because the Palestinian snipers keep trying to kill the workers fixing the power stations) as well as bringing food to the people trying to kill them (which gets held up by UN relief workers — they can’t possibly deliver the bags of rice and beans and bottles of oil, because there’s not enough wheat flour to go around — I mean, why would the Gazans, who are so hungry it’s an Imminent Humanitarian Disaster, want to eat rice and beans if they can’t have wheat flour to go with it) and providing free medical care to Gazans who need medical care.
I think PSF — Palestinian Sympathy Fatigue — started towards the end of the 2006 Lebanon War, when Reuters discovered that photos by a Palestinian photographer of the attrocities and constant shelling by Israeli military against Lebanon turned out to be heavily photoshopped. They tried pulling the photos that had been altered off their website, and wound up pulling all of them off — too many altered ones.
You’re right. You’re not alone.
What? The Post published a lie? Nah. That would never happen….would it? Circulation down, they wouldn’t do something like that.