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General Category => World News => Topic started by: Wingnut on May 15, 2021, 02:01:53 pm
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Wow. A twofer on enemy kills. High Five to the IDF!
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday, hours after another air raid on a densely populated refugee camp in the city killed at least 10 Palestinians from an extended family, mostly children.
The strike on the high-rise came nearly an hour after the military ordered people to evacuate the 12-story building, which also housed Al-Jazeera, other offices and residential apartments. The strike brought down the entire structure, which collapsed in a gigantic cloud of dust. There was no immediate explanation for why it was attacked.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/15/997124491/israeli-airstrike-in-gaza-destroys-building-with-ap-bureau
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Oh, no, the IDF hit the Hamas Ministry of Propaganda. How will the Iranians tells us lies now?
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(https://i.imgur.com/FtwhbPZ.jpg)
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Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
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Now we know why the reports from the @ap were so pro-Palestinian Authority.
The AP should tell us who exactly they’ve been paying rent to....was their landlord a Hamas front company, @jpaceDC?
Yikes!
9:58 AM · May 15, 2021
Also known as the "lie down with dogs, get up with fleas" motif. Or, in this case, bunk with terrorists, die with a rocket launched into your gut.
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I suspect there was more in the building than just propaganda outlets for the Arab Palis. BMM reported that AP was claiming they barely avoided a lot of people being killed. In reality, as admitted in the NPR article, they had a full hour's warning. So AP demonstrated they are a lying anti-Israel propaganda outlet.
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I suspect there was more in the building than just propaganda outlets for the Arab Palis. BMM reported that AP was claiming they barely avoided a lot of people being killed. In reality, as admitted in the NPR article, they had a full hour's warning. So AP demonstrated they are a lying anti-Israel propaganda outlet.
The AP doesn't even hide their anti-Israeli bias. The whole tone of the hit piece was not even objective.
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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1393572163349848066
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https://twitter.com/ImranWahid144/status/1393618333271040000
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The don't build em like the use to. That thing folded up like a walmart lawn chair under Stacey Abrams at an all you can eat dinner. .
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From and IDF Tweet, https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1393565656621137920?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1393565656621137920|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Fallahpundit%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fuproar-after-idf-destroys-gaza-high-rise-containing-media-offices-and-hamas-intel-assets-it-says-n390223 (https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1393565656621137920?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1393565656621137920|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Fallahpundit%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fuproar-after-idf-destroys-gaza-high-rise-containing-media-offices-and-hamas-intel-assets-it-says-n390223) :
After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets.
The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields.
I'm surprised Twitter hasn't shut down the IDF's account. Maybe it's a matter of when rather than if.
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Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza tower block housing foreign media including Al Jazeera and Associated Press provoking outcry and US pressure on Netanyahu while Hamas rocket attacks terrorise Tel Aviv beachgoers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9582063/Moment-building-housing-Al-Jazeera-television-Associated-Press-destroyed-Israeli-air-strike.html
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Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
The @AP pays rent to the anonymous owner of the high rise that housed terrorists.
Why is @jpaceDC and the AP hiding the name of the owner of a front company for Hamas?
Release the name. It’s a crime to give money to Hamas linked individuals.
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/
10:11 AM · May 15, 2021·
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(https://i.imgur.com/FtwhbPZ.jpg)
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Jeff B. tried to do his best, but he could not
@EsotericCD
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This was decision by the AP to place their bureau offices within a known Hamas safehouse; the reason they did it was for journalistic access, never imagining that something like this might happen. Hamas, of course, WANTED either defense or for it to happen for propaganda.
The moral of the story is: when you're dealing with terrorist regimes that like to use people as human shields, don't set your office up in a place that can potentially be compromised by people who want to use you as human shields.
Hamas is notorious for trying to place its military/terrorist infrastructure within civilian or media zones. They aren't stupid: they don't care about the loss of human life, they want a potentially great international story and they know how it will be reported. Be hardhearted. ...
https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1393568337918038020
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AP, et al, knowingly let Hamas use their people as human shields.
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AP, et al, knowingly let Hamas use their people as human shields.
Someone should tell the IDF so they can adjust their targets away from civilians.
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Someone should tell the IDF so they can adjust their targets away from civilians.
When the IDF warns the Palestinians that a building is about to be hit, Hamas moves civilians into that building at gunpoint so that they can be political casualties in the propaganda war.
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From 2014
What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel
The news tells us less about Israel than about the people writing the news, a former AP reporter says.
MATTI FRIEDMAN | NOVEMBER 30, 2014
During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences for the millions of people trying to comprehend current events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a region where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.
An essay I wrote for Tablet on this topic in the aftermath of the war sparked intense interest. In the article, based on my experiences between 2006 and 2011 as a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s largest news organizations, I pointed out the existence of a problem and discussed it in broad terms. Using staffing numbers, I illustrated the disproportionate media attention devoted to this conflict relative to other stories, and gave examples of editorial decisions that appeared to be driven by ideological considerations rather than journalistic ones. . . .
. . . Hamas understood that reporters could be intimidated when necessary and that they would not report the intimidation; Western news organizations tend to see no ethical imperative to inform readers of the restrictions shaping their coverage in repressive states or other dangerous areas. In the war’s aftermath, the NGO-UN-media alliance could be depended upon to unleash the organs of the international community on Israel, and to leave the jihadist group alone.
When Hamas’s leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)
Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants entered the AP’s Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men “did not represent the group.” The AP “does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments,” he wrote.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/
AP has known for at least seven years that Hamas has been operating from this building. AP lies.
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From 2014
What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel
The news tells us less about Israel than about the people writing the news, a former AP reporter says.
MATTI FRIEDMAN | NOVEMBER 30, 2014
During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences for the millions of people trying to comprehend current events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a region where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.
An essay I wrote for Tablet on this topic in the aftermath of the war sparked intense interest. In the article, based on my experiences between 2006 and 2011 as a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s largest news organizations, I pointed out the existence of a problem and discussed it in broad terms. Using staffing numbers, I illustrated the disproportionate media attention devoted to this conflict relative to other stories, and gave examples of editorial decisions that appeared to be driven by ideological considerations rather than journalistic ones. . . .
. . . Hamas understood that reporters could be intimidated when necessary and that they would not report the intimidation; Western news organizations tend to see no ethical imperative to inform readers of the restrictions shaping their coverage in repressive states or other dangerous areas. In the war’s aftermath, the NGO-UN-media alliance could be depended upon to unleash the organs of the international community on Israel, and to leave the jihadist group alone.
When Hamas’s leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)
Colford, the AP spokesman, confirmed that armed militants entered the AP’s Gaza office in the early days of the war to complain about a photo showing the location of a rocket launch, though he said that Hamas claimed that the men “did not represent the group.” The AP “does not report many interactions with militias, armies, thugs or governments,” he wrote.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/
AP has known for at least seven years that Hamas has been operating from this building. AP lies.
Good post. Good information. goopo
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When the IDF warns the Palestinians that a building is about to be hit, Hamas moves civilians into that building at gunpoint so that they can be political casualties in the propaganda war.
Yes .. and then Israel takes to the cameras bemoaning who the bad Palestinians made them kill. We've seen all this bullshit before. There are no innocents here; not the Palestinians and not the Israelis. Neither side holds the scepter of righteousness.
The Palestiian idiots are still trying to use balloons to take down the US funded IDF --- just drag their assses to the peace table. If Israel won't join them, BDS their economy into the ground until they do.
It's enough.
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There are no innocents here; not the Palestinians and not the Israelis. Neither side holds the scepter of righteousness.
I vehemently disagree.
just drag their assses to the peace table. If Israel won't join them, BDS their economy into the ground until they do.
Hamas doesn't want peace. That should be apparent to anyone with a functional brain. Have you ever been to Israel? I strongly recommend you visit and see for yourself instead of buying into MSM Pallywood BS.
Personally, I would have kept the Suez Canal. Also, take control of the Temple Mount and do with it as they please. Re-open the East Gate. And kick the Iranians the hell out of Gaza, permanently. No more warnings either.
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Hamas doesn't want peace.
Neither does Israel. Peace would mean annexation ... and Jewish State of Israel does not want this.
That should be apparent to anyone with a functional brain. Have you ever been to Israel? I strongly recommend you visit and see for yourself instead of buying into MSM Pallywood BS.
Yes, frequently and with some regularity before COVID. . What's your point?
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Are you saying that Israel should annex the West Bank and Gaza as proof they want peace? Seriously?
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Exceptionally good targeting!
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Are you saying that Israel should annex the West Bank and Gaza as proof they want peace? Seriously?
Well, military occupation is against international law, so Israel, if they want peace, can annex the West Bank and Gaza or give their blessings for a completely independent State of Palestine.
If they want peace.
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May 16, 2021 1:12 PM EST
'Smoking gun': Evidence proving presence of Hamas in AP building in Gaza shown to Biden administration
In the wake of an Israeli Defense Forces air strike on a building housing the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera in Gaza Saturday, Israeli officials showed US officials what they call "smoking gun" evidence that the Hamas worked out of the same building.
Hannah Nightengale
The Post-MillennialIn the wake of an Israeli Defense Forces air strike on a building housing the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera in Gaza Saturday, Israeli officials showed US officials what they call "smoking gun" evidence that the Hamas worked out of the same building, the Jerusalem Post reports.
"We showed them the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building," a source close to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said. "I understand they found the explanation satisfactory."
The Israeli Air Force struck the 12-story building on Saturday, giving residents of the building an hour warning to evacuate.
"The building housed the offices of civilian media, which the terrorist organization Hamas hides behind and uses as human shields,” said an IDF statement. "The terror organization Hamas deliberately places its military assets in the heart of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. Prior to the attack, the IDF warned the civilians who were in the building and gave them sufficient time to evacuate." ...
Full story at the Post Millennial (https://thepostmillennial.com/evidence-proving-existence-of-hamas-in-ap-building-shown-to-biden-administration)
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FLASHBACK: Hamas Reportedly Fires Missiles at Israel from Foreign Press Building in 2009 (https://hannity.com/media-room/flashback-hamas-reportedly-fires-missiles-at-israel-from-foreign-press-building-in-2009/?utm_source=hootsuite)
posted by Hannity Staff - 5.17.21
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Well, military occupation is against international law, so Israel, if they want peace, can annex the West Bank and Gaza or give their blessings for a completely independent State of Palestine.
If they want peace.
Israel has already given its blessing to a completely independent State of Palestine. Multiple times. The other Arab states? Not so much. But hey, we can go back to the '67 border any time. Gaza occupied by Egypt. The West Bank as Jordanian territory. No Palestine independence at all.
Today, Palestine actually has independence. The problem is that with that independence, they repeatedly choose to engage in acts of war against Israel through their elected leaders.
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Israel like mexicans doing jobs America won't.
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With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News
Is it better to cooperate with dictatorships and authoritarian regimes and tell half the story with hands tied—or not tell the story at all?
by Matti Friedman
June 05, 2017Did the Associated Press, the venerable American agency that is one of the world’s biggest news providers, collaborate with the Nazis during World War II? A report and new counter-report on this subject offer a few striking lessons—not just for students of history but for anyone concerned with the way news coverage shapes our perception right now.
A paper last year by the German historian Harriet Scharnberg titled “The A and P of Propaganda” and published in Studies in Contemporary History makes the case that beginning in the mid-1930s, the AP’s photo office in Germany made compromise after compromise to keep reporting under Nazi rule, obeying successive orders from the Hitler regime until it ended up as a Nazi information arm in all but name. Remaining in Berlin after its competitors departed in 1935 allowed the AP to serve as a “key channel” for German propaganda, she wrote, an arrangement the New York-based agency was eager to preserve—even if it meant removing all of its Jewish photographers in keeping with Nazi race laws, for example, and even if it meant issuing a statement to the official SS magazine swearing that the photo bureau was pure Aryan. ...
Full story at Tablet Mag (https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ap-collaboration-nazis-reporting-news)
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. AP loves those Jew-killing enterprises.
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If "news" outlets want access, there's almost no lie or cover-up the MSM won't do. That's how Clinton trained and tamed the MSM, that's how OhBummer! got the MSM to be his lapdogs, and I expect LIEden will soon have have the MSM reduced to abject obedience.