TVs and sympathy
Have you noticed a return to the pre-Gaza disengagement media reports classified as "the poor Palestinians." The liberal media is having a feeding frenzy, each reporter trying to outdo the others as they show how the poor Palestinians are suffering due to the terrible Israeli military attacks.
Before the incident on Sunday June 25, when the Palestinian terrorists snatched Cpl. Shalit, the Karni crossing was open only periodically to allow humanitarian aid from Israel into Gaza because of the warnings of imminent terrorist attacks. One of the last convoys of trucks that was allowed in last week before the incident was stopped by the Israeli guards, and lo and behold, what did they find? Not baby food, nor water nor precious foodstuffs to feed the poor starving Palestinians, but TV sets! Yes, truckloads of TVs (I am not making this up). When asked why the TVs were being transported as "humanitarian aid" the Palestinian representative was quoted as saying "these TVs are needed so that the people can watch the World Cup" (i.e. the football/soccer cup being played in Germany). Such was the terrible need for basic humanitarian aid in Gaza. The Israeli side let the TVs go thru.
Pardon me if I am a bit skeptical about the terrible suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza, we've seen it all before. If they were suffering so much, how could they find enough able-bodied men to train over a period of months (while the Hamas Government was negotiating with the Fatah President over whether or not they should recognize Israel) to plan to carry out this attack. As Alan Dershowitz argued, as terrorists they care nothing about their own people, in fact they want Israel to kill them so that they can use them as "victims" in their propaganda.
Israel has now been attacking Gaza for three days (Weds-Fri), including air raids, that reduced the power station to rubble and destroyed the Interior Ministry, where terrorist attacks were planned, and targeted attacks on cars. And although the Gaza strip is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, so far only one man has been killed, and he was an Islamic Jihad terrorist. Even the Hamas and Fatah offices were attacked at night so that there were no casualties. Now to accomplish this requires more than ordinary care, even the IDF could have killed many more civilians than zero if they really wanted to! The Americans, considering their record in Iraq, could not compete with this record. (By the way expect to see an incident on TV in which women and children are killed, if it doesn't happen by accident, "Pallywood" will arrange it).
A young Israeli man was shot to death near Ramallah this week. Have you seen his family on TV, have you seen their suffering or seen his body? No, but you have seen poor Palestinian children who can't play in the street because of the bad Israelis. The level of bias is absurd. Lyse Doucet of the BBC acts as a spokesman for the Palestinians, leading commentators and experts to say what she wants to hear, and if it doesn't satisfy her she says things like "what you meant to say was...." They never question the statistics (one Palestinian spokesman said that Israel holds 10,000 Palestinian prisoners) and they never mention that the Palestinian prisoners have been charged and tried in court and found guilty of murder (unlike Guantanamo). Tim Marshall on Sky is one of the few journalists giving reports with less sentimentality and more hard facts, and more balance.
As far as Palestinian spokesmen are concerned, taking the IDF soldier was not a mistake. The suffering of their people can be traced directly to the fact that they elected a terrorist Government and that Hamas chooses to attack Israel rather than build up the economy of the PA or improve the lot of their people. They incorporate calculation of how Israel will react into their strategic planning. The PA has been in chaos for a long time, in effect the Government does not function. Yet, according to experts the Palestinian "street" supports the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and this makes Hamas more popular. Given that, I have little sympathy for the Palestinians.
Before the incident on Sunday June 25, when the Palestinian terrorists snatched Cpl. Shalit, the Karni crossing was open only periodically to allow humanitarian aid from Israel into Gaza because of the warnings of imminent terrorist attacks. One of the last convoys of trucks that was allowed in last week before the incident was stopped by the Israeli guards, and lo and behold, what did they find? Not baby food, nor water nor precious foodstuffs to feed the poor starving Palestinians, but TV sets! Yes, truckloads of TVs (I am not making this up). When asked why the TVs were being transported as "humanitarian aid" the Palestinian representative was quoted as saying "these TVs are needed so that the people can watch the World Cup" (i.e. the football/soccer cup being played in Germany). Such was the terrible need for basic humanitarian aid in Gaza. The Israeli side let the TVs go thru.
Pardon me if I am a bit skeptical about the terrible suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza, we've seen it all before. If they were suffering so much, how could they find enough able-bodied men to train over a period of months (while the Hamas Government was negotiating with the Fatah President over whether or not they should recognize Israel) to plan to carry out this attack. As Alan Dershowitz argued, as terrorists they care nothing about their own people, in fact they want Israel to kill them so that they can use them as "victims" in their propaganda.
Israel has now been attacking Gaza for three days (Weds-Fri), including air raids, that reduced the power station to rubble and destroyed the Interior Ministry, where terrorist attacks were planned, and targeted attacks on cars. And although the Gaza strip is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, so far only one man has been killed, and he was an Islamic Jihad terrorist. Even the Hamas and Fatah offices were attacked at night so that there were no casualties. Now to accomplish this requires more than ordinary care, even the IDF could have killed many more civilians than zero if they really wanted to! The Americans, considering their record in Iraq, could not compete with this record. (By the way expect to see an incident on TV in which women and children are killed, if it doesn't happen by accident, "Pallywood" will arrange it).
A young Israeli man was shot to death near Ramallah this week. Have you seen his family on TV, have you seen their suffering or seen his body? No, but you have seen poor Palestinian children who can't play in the street because of the bad Israelis. The level of bias is absurd. Lyse Doucet of the BBC acts as a spokesman for the Palestinians, leading commentators and experts to say what she wants to hear, and if it doesn't satisfy her she says things like "what you meant to say was...." They never question the statistics (one Palestinian spokesman said that Israel holds 10,000 Palestinian prisoners) and they never mention that the Palestinian prisoners have been charged and tried in court and found guilty of murder (unlike Guantanamo). Tim Marshall on Sky is one of the few journalists giving reports with less sentimentality and more hard facts, and more balance.
As far as Palestinian spokesmen are concerned, taking the IDF soldier was not a mistake. The suffering of their people can be traced directly to the fact that they elected a terrorist Government and that Hamas chooses to attack Israel rather than build up the economy of the PA or improve the lot of their people. They incorporate calculation of how Israel will react into their strategic planning. The PA has been in chaos for a long time, in effect the Government does not function. Yet, according to experts the Palestinian "street" supports the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and this makes Hamas more popular. Given that, I have little sympathy for the Palestinians.
posted by Jack Cohen at 9:45 AM
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