Bleeding, Leading
You’d almost get the idea that this was all Israel’s fault, from the coverage of new horrors emerging in Gaza. But before we get to the news, what looks almost like a Greenwald parody of Greenwald, while attempting to disparage Gaza war coverage, instead seems to have captured its spirit:
Last night, I was on The Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss the Israeli attack on Gaza — or what The New York Times now actually calls ”Israel’s war on the Islamist rulers of Gaza” (apparently, there was no such thing as the U.S. invasion and destruction of Iraq — it was merely “America’s war on the Ba’athist rulers of Iraq”).
In fact, the sockpuppet also know as Greenwald should be taking comfort from the coverage at NYT and elsewhere, because you could read it and come away with the impression that Israel has done something wrong in its campaign remove a nest of murderous terrorists from a neigboring territory.
OK, news:
AP: Rice headed to the UN to push three-pronged ceasefire plan. The plan outlined in this earlier article …
… was quickly rejected by a Hamas official as slanted in favor of Israel.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had 17 phone conversations over the weekend with foreign leaders in a bid for international consensus on those three points, which include a halt to Hamas’ rocket firing into Israel.
The cease-fire proposal also would include a key Hamas demand: an arrangement for reopening crossing points on the border with Israel, McCormack said. The third element would address the tunnels into Gaza from Egypt through which Hamas has smuggled materials and arms.
One problem. As indicated by the Hamas rejection, the only way to halt Hamas missile fire into Israel is to destroy Hamas. Which appears to be the Israeli peace plan.
WPost: Israel Pushes into Southern Gaza. Good news as Israel ignores terrorist-enabling Euro/UN peace pressure. Meanwhile,
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned in a statement from Geneva that the situation in Gaza had turned into a “full-blown major crisis in humanitarian terms,” with hospitals running off of emergency generators and some of them nearing the end of their fuel supplies.
“The situation of the people in Gaza is extreme and traumatic,” with emergency personnel and ambulances having difficulty moving to those in need off help, said Pierre Kaehenbuehl, the ICRC’s director of operations, at a news conference in Geneva, the Reuters news service reported.
It’s too bad Gaza’s beleaguered and must abused civilians can’t just shove the Hamas terrorists out the hospital doors … or off the rooftops. The sooner those guys are martyred, the sooner it’s over. WPost’s Gaza Hamas hospital sidebar makes no mention yea or nay of the Shinbet claim of Hamas hospital abuse.
NYT: “Death toll mounts as Israel Expands Offensive” … poorly focused article is all over the place and not really about the headline some earnest gang of editors slapped on it. France is trying to enlist Syria for peace. Israelis moving in deeper. More Hamas missiles. Meanwhile, handwringing sidebar, “Warnings Not Enough for Gaza Families,” presents Palo claims unquestioningly, holds at arm’s length and slaps quotemarks around the Israeli position. You’d almost think it was Israel’s fault that the Palestinians voted in a gang of terrorist thugs who fire missiles from population centers to population centers.
Reuters is reporting the tank fire on a UN school could have killed 40. No mention of what might have prompted Israeli tanks to fire at a school.
Gateway, in case you were wondering, here’s vid of Hamas using UN schools as missile launchpads.
OK, here we go. Ha’aretz:
An Israeli sources said that militants barricaded in the school had opened fire on IDF soldiers.
Hot Air, helpfully, with a profile of parasitic Hamas and its deep concern for the well-being and health-care issues of the Palestinian people.
Infidel Blogger’s Alliance, Islamic terrorist chatter suggesting a terrorist threat re Jewish centers in the United States.
Israeli blog Muqata’s running liveblog.
Your essential Israel Matzav, with activity over Lebanon.
A Blog For All is all over it.
The Other McCain: Sonny Corleone in Gaza.
Newshogging Cernig, typically confused about what is a rule of war and who sets them,* opines from the armchair of highest moral authority that when you are being fired upon from a school building, or any other structure later determined to have been full of civilians, you should refrain from returning fire. Adds that the Shlomos are probably lying. Must have a good view of Gaza from that chair. Nothing here to indicate how the ‘hogger feels about missiles fired from school buildings at school buildings, but I guess as long as it is the plucky third-world liberation struggle also known as Hamas firing at the oppressive Nazi occupiers also known as the Zionist entity, it’s OK. He also doesn’t seem to know much about recent Israeli-Palestinian relations, Iraq or what “moral relativism” means.
* In fairness, he’s taking guidance from this confused, equivocating and largely unreadable post by Andrew Sullivan, so whaddaya want.
Topics: Israel, Palestinians, media
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:55 am Comments (11) on Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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January 6th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I like Hot Air’s closing observation:
“If the Palestinians laid down their weapons, there would be peace. If Israel laid down its weapons, there would be no Israel’
The only thing that will stop Hamas, Hizb’Allah, PLO and others of the sorry Ilk is total annihilation.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Of course the death and destruction among ordinary Gazans is tragic. But the world should remember that it was brought down on them by Hamas, no one else. The Israelis are fighting out of concern for their own. Hamas has no such concern. To them, their own people are nothing but cannon fodder and PR props.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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January 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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January 6th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
60+ years is enough. Kill as many as needed, and don’t sweat the “civilians” wasted. By their own words, Hamas doesn’t recognize any civilians in this war.
Bounce the rubble, boys.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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January 6th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
The tragic death and destruction in Gaza in happening because of Hamas constant attacks on Israel, it will stop when the terrorists decide to live in peace. Israel wishes to live within its border in peace and has allowed all others to live in a perfect democracy if they wish to. Now the reports the liberal media are fed by Hamas and the Palestinians to BBC outlets are all fabricated.
As American Spectator reports, The Norwegian Dr. Mads Gilbert Gilberts is a Palestinian activist, and a member of Norwegian Maoist “Red” party. He is hostile to Israel, and a long standing Palestinian “solidarity’ movement supporter.
He defended the 9/11 attackers, they had the moral right as the oppressed to attack the U.S. He is the one feeding all the sorry and bloodshed reports to BBC, and whoever wants to believe his spin.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:01 am
RebeccaH, let me fix this “But the world should remember that it was brought down on them by Hamas, no one else.” for you.
“But the world should remember that it was brought down on them, by themselves, for voting in Hamas, no one else.
Hope that was satisfactory, if not I’ll restore it. ;)
January 7th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Sorry, forgot to close the quotes. Stuff like that got me kicked out of ‘grammer’ class.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:33 am
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