Murdering The Truth
by Dr. Paul J Balles
Friday, December 21st, 2012
Judging from the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza with its bombs and missiles, Palestinian journalists have been doing their best to get the news reported.
Robert Hardman describes Gaza as
one of the most desperate and dismal places on Earth…a place so poor that 80 percent of the population eat aid agency bread and the zebra in the local zoo turns out to be a painted donkey.
If the Israelis aren’t simply keeping the Gazans locked in their open-air prison, they’re providing the Palestinians with the kind of deprivation the Israelis imagine their ancestors endured in concentration camps.
A number of columnists have written about the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Most have been internet journalists, since the mainstream Western media is under Israeli control.
A few Western journalists, following Operation Cast Lead and since, have had to do their investigative reporting from outside of Gaza.
Meanwhile the local Palestinian journalists have kept the Arabic speaking world informed, contrary to the wishes of the Israelis, who haven’t wanted the gory truth–the images of their missile massacres–revealed in any language.
Gaza – journalists and communications targeted by Israeli missiles
Now, Israeli airstrikes in Operation of Pillar of Cloud targeted two buildings that house journalists in Gaza injuring nine journalists. Other attacks resulted in deaths to three journalists.
The international Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has written a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu insisting on an explanation of Israeli targeting of journalists in Gaza.
According to CPJ
Israeli officials have broadly asserted that the individuals and facilities had connections to terrorist activity but have disclosed no substantiation for these very serious allegations.
On November 18 and 19, airstrikes targeted Al-Shawa and Housari Tower and Al-Shuruq Tower, both of which are well-known for housing numerous international and local news organizations.
The casualties of Israel’s genocidal attack on Palestinians in Gaza.
It has been a consistent practice of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) to target civilians–especially women and children–and then to try to justify their murders by claiming that the victims were terrorists or being used as human shields.
Two cameramen for the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, were driving away from an assignment at Al-Shifaa Hospital when an Israeli missile hit their vehicle, and the two men were killed.
Here’s some raw footage of Israel’s wars on the defenceless people of Gaza.
THE WORLD SHOULD SEE THIS; UTTERLY REPREHENSIBLE,
wrote one journalist.
Don’t stay away from this video because it’s sickening. Bear with it; and after your stomach settles, write to U.S. congresspersons and senators, all of whom gave Netanyahu 95 standing ovations when he addressed Congress.
Don’t let the Western media propaganda of the past convince you that Israel was exercising a right to defend itself. You will see much more than self-defence on the video.
You should then make the connection between the advanced military hardware used to kill journalists and innocent civilians provided by generous donors in America.
Some of those donors in the Congress have authorized 10 Billion dollars in aid for Israel’s faux defence. Where do you think the gargantuan military gift to Israel is coming from? From all of the taxpayers in America.
Why would an American taxpayer contribute to the purposeful slaughter of innocent women and children who have had nothing to do with any useless missiles fired into Israel?
The answer: they have been cheated by a media under Israeli control.
Since the Palestinian media hasn’t been controlled, the Israelis simply blow up the buildings and journalists who are writing about and photographing the truth.
Congratulations, America. Keep it up until enough husbands and fathers of murdered wives and children move to avenge the losses you support.
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Ariadna Theokopoulos
December 21, 2012 at 1:07 am
Excellent post.
Blake
December 21, 2012 at 1:29 pm
DITTO THAT
Cosmo
December 22, 2012 at 11:57 am
You are aware that the child Ismail Haniya is holding was actually killed by Hamas fire aren’t you?
The Telegraph verified he was killed by a Hamas rocket. CNN and Reuters already retracted.
But there were signs on Saturday that not all the Palestinian casualties have been the result of Israeli air strikes. The highly publicised death of four-year-old Mohammed Sadallah appeared to have been the result of a misfiring home-made rocket, not a bomb dropped by Israel.
The child’s death on Friday figured prominently in media coverage after Hisham Kandil, the Egyptian prime minister, was filmed lifting his dead body out of an ambulance. “The boy, the martyr, whose blood is still on my hands and clothes, is something that we cannot keep silent about,” he said, before promising to defend the Palestinian people.
But experts from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights who visited the site on Saturday said they believed that the explosion was caused by a Palestinian rocket.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9685564/Israeli-forces-prepare-for-war-as-troops-mass-on-Gaza-border.html
Blake
December 22, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Your spin has spinned out of control Mark Regev. Cherry-picked anecdotes or wild, unsubstantiated claims. How long do you honestly think this charade occupying Palestine is sustainable?
Cosmo
December 22, 2012 at 6:55 pm
I mean you have to admit that in an article called Murdering The Truth seeing Hamas PM holding the dead body of a child he murdered to the camera to blame his death on Israel is fitting.
Roy Bard
December 22, 2012 at 5:57 pm
cosmo: “You are aware that the child Ismail Haniya is holding was actually killed by Hamas fire aren’t you?”
But that doesn’t mean that Israel is innocent when it comes to the brutalisation and killing of Gazan kids, does it?
Roy Bard
December 22, 2012 at 6:34 pm
and Hamas only exists because Israel exists
Cosmo
December 22, 2012 at 6:56 pm
There are the equivalents of Hamas in every Arab country and in most of them just like in Palestine the people of those countries would vote for their Hamas for government if they had a choise.
Roy Bard
December 22, 2012 at 7:38 pm
cosmo: “There are the equivalents of Hamas in every Arab country”
Are you sure? Cos Wikipedia tells us that:
Cosmo
December 23, 2012 at 9:20 am
So on just about every Arab country there is a Muslim political force and in most places where the people are free to chose they elect that party. But for some reason there wouldn’t be a Hamas in Palestine if it weren’t for Israel?
Blake
December 22, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Hamas began with Israeli aegis as an opposition to the secular PLO. Backfired badly. I guess even the oppressed collabs have enough of oppression eventually.
Cosmo
December 23, 2012 at 9:23 am
Hamas began mostly as a welfare social movement.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
December 23, 2012 at 12:07 am
I think no one else on deLib appreciates your contribution as I do.
I see no evidence that anyone else has even realized your subtle intention in making all these statements, as an Israeli, under an article aptly called Murdering the Truth.
Cosmo
December 22, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Yes other innocent children did die because of Israeli attacks but there is no way you can fight this type of war without such casualties.
Roy Bard
December 22, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Cosmo:”there is no way you can fight this type of war without such casualties.”
indeed – Zionism mangles babies
Cosmo
December 23, 2012 at 9:24 am
Palestinians target babies.
Roy Bard
December 23, 2012 at 11:51 am
yes – yet inexplicably they kill many many less than the Israelis who claim not to target them at all.
Roy Bard
December 23, 2012 at 12:33 pm
cosmo: “Palestinians target babies.”
The vast majority of Jewish Israeli babies will grow up to become armed members of the very same IDF which creates so much misery for Palestinians ……
Cosmo
December 23, 2012 at 3:13 pm
So in some cases you support murdering babies?
Roy Bard
December 23, 2012 at 4:59 pm
cosmo: “So in some cases you support murdering babies?”
can you cite exactly what I said that led you to conclude this please?
Jay Knott
December 23, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Cosmo’s slanderous comment reminds me of Ken Stern, a Jewish American anti-fascist who falsely claimed that right-wing rural ‘militias’ are in favor of killing babies (A Force Upon the Plain, p. 249). Whereas rabbis in Israel explicitly said “There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us” (Maariv, Nov 9 2009 – http://tinyurl.com/yczr7ej). It’s the ability to judge one’s own tribe by laxer standards than others.
Cosmo
December 24, 2012 at 6:16 pm
So what exactly was the point of pointing out those babies might become soliders one day?
Roy Bard
December 24, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Cosmo: “So what exactly was the point of pointing out those babies might become soliders one day?”
because they will – because its time you started thinking about whether the ambassador’s hasbara that you post here is consistent and holds up to scrutiny.
The attackers were from Europe – they traveled to Palestine knowing it was land that was lived on.
Palestinians were dispossessed – they did not travel across the sea to attack anybody.
The majority of Palestinians will never attack an Israeli.
The resistance has to operate clandestinely – as its members face assassination and imprisonment with torture.
You can post photos identifying yourself as an armed combatant and not fear assassination. Palestinians can’t.
The majority of Israeli Jews will join the IDF
If you think that Palestinians have no right to resist the taking of their land – then Zionism has no right to exist.
The only person posting justification for the mangling of babies is you Cosmo.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
December 24, 2012 at 8:34 pm
You are a hate-filled lot, cosmo, aren’t you?
“The city’s chief rabbi, Isaiah Herzl, has refused to countenance a single Christmas tree in Upper Nazareth, arguing that it would be “offensive to Jewish eyes”.
That view, it seems, reflects the official position of the country’s rabbinate. In so far as they are able, the rabbis have sought to ban Christmas celebrations in public buildings, including in the hundreds of hotels across the country.
A recent report in the Haaretz newspaper, on an Israeli Jew who grows Christmas trees commercially, noted in passing: “hotels – under threat of losing kashrut certificates – are prohibited by the rabbinate from decking their halls in boughs of holly or, heaven forbid, putting up even the smallest of small sparkly Christmas tree in the corner of the lobby.”
In other words, the rabbinate has been quietly terrorising Israeli hotel owners into ignoring Christmas by threatening to use its powers to put them out of business. “
Blake
December 23, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Cosmo, perspective is necessary. The Fogel family, for instance, were illegal extremist settlers – none of the hundreds of thousands of murdered Palestinian children are occupying anyone’s land but their own. Their very existence was based on the dispossession of Palestinian land, the purging of a Palestinian family, the Zionist occupation of Palestine, all crimes against humanity. They did not belong on that land as the land does not belong to them. The children of course, are innocent. The parents are not.
Cosmo
December 23, 2012 at 3:11 pm
“hundreds of thousands of murdered Palestinian children”?
Where did you come up with that number?
If all the people of Israel have no right to live there what made the Forgel parents extremists? Did you interview them?
Sounds to me like you think there is no difference between a person living Tel Aviv to Itamar. Not all settlers think alike you know there are for example Arab Israeli settlers living in East Jerusalem.
Blake
December 24, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Well over a million and a half have been butchered since 1948 by murdering thieving usurpers. I am sure the number of children would be that high. Tel Aviv? I prefer to call it Tel Alrabie – the Hill of the Spring- ( the NATIVE Palestinian original name of Tel Aviv) ..
Cosmo
December 25, 2012 at 8:56 am
No the number of Palestinian casualties since 1948 isn\’t anywhere close to that. It can\’t be over 25,000.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
December 24, 2012 at 8:30 pm
“Not all settlers think alike”
Maybe they have divergence of opinion on culinary issues but they all obviously think themselves entitled to be squatters on stolen land taken by force of arms or they would not be there.
To normal people they are alike.
Ariadna Theokopoulos
December 24, 2012 at 8:30 pm
PS
Why do you call criminal squatters “settlers”?
Blake
December 24, 2012 at 9:54 pm
“Settlers” suggests peaceful pioneers wishing to integrate with locals. Israeli “settlers” are anything but. They are aggressive squatters.
Cosmo
December 25, 2012 at 8:59 am
So again, you obviously think the exact same thing about all Israelis. So what is the difference between a radical left Israeli living in Tel Aviv, and a settler if both think themselves entitled to be squatters on stolen land?
Roy Bard
December 25, 2012 at 10:05 am
“So what is the difference between a radical left Israeli living in Tel Aviv, and a settler if both think themselves entitled to be squatters on stolen land?”
Clearly none whatsoever……
Source
Blake
December 25, 2012 at 5:24 pm
40% of zionist colonizers want to emigrate out Cosmo. That is the main topic at sane \”Israeli\” dinner tables. It\’s South Africa all over again. It\’s unsustainable. At least the white supremacist South Africans could reconcile. Can you? Repenting is an act you find repulsive.
Cosmo
December 22, 2012 at 12:02 pm
http://www.idfblog.com/2012/11/29/how-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-use-journalism-as-a-cover-for-terrorism/
Blake
December 22, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Psychological Warfare in Palestine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaF7nOhFLQA&feature=em-uploademail
Blake
December 22, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Zionism 101 – The Complete Story
http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/zionism-101-the-complete-story/
maria3
December 25, 2012 at 12:40 am
No use of trying to talk to this guy Cosmo.
He can\’t see the point that the Palestinians have been forced of their land, thrown out of their houses, had to flee for their safety, thousands killed and up untill now living in refugee camps. Israel has done a hell of a lot more killings.
What to you expect the Palestnians to do, sit by idle and let Israel piece by piece take more of their land, destroy their lemon orchards, deny them excess to water in the
West bank. Have to go through these awfull checkpoints.
On one video clip, this Palestinian man was so right asking; where are you from Russia? What are you doing here. What is it that people with the Jewish religion can just move into Israel and than take property away from the Palestinian people, who have lived there for hundreds of years.
So, I could go back to western Europe from the USA, I know the town and street in the
house were I was born, most likely a Muslim is now living in that house. I can than say, I am a Christian, I want to move back into the house I was born.
Lot of the Jews in Israel were not even born there. Don\’t come with that religious stuff,
God chanted us that land. Bibles made up a lot of stories to their benefit.
Cosmo
December 25, 2012 at 9:05 am
\”have been forced of their land, thrown out of their houses, had to flee for their safety, thousands killed \”
Sounds like you are describing the Jews just change thousands to millions.
I expect the Palestinian leadership to sign the peace agreements offered to them. If their people are suffering as much as you claim they would have agreed already to end the conlifct and establish a Palestinian state.
When the Palestinian state will be formed they will have a law allowing Palestinian refugees to move to the West Bank.
What is it about being a Palestinian that allow them to move into the homes of Jews born in the West Bank after generations of living in other countries?
There are a lot less Jews who were not born in Israel than Palestinian born in other countries who would be allowed to live in Palestine.
Roy Bard
December 25, 2012 at 10:14 am
Cosmo: “Sounds like you are describing the Jews just change thousands to millions.”
And yet it is Cosmo who is supporting the idea that people can be ” forced of their land, thrown out of their houses, have to flee for their safety, thousands killed”.
Cosmo: “I expect the Palestinian leadership to sign the peace agreements offered to them”
You’re not a Palestinian though – you’re an oppressor of Palestinians – and there is no peace deal being offered.
Cosmo: “If their people are suffering as much as you claim they would have agreed already to end the conlifct and establish a Palestinian state.”
No doubt you’d have suggested that Black South Africans sacrifice over three quarters of their land and accept Bantustans – the establishment of Palestinian Bantustans will not end Palestinian suffering either.
Cosmo: “When the Palestinian state will be formed they will have a law allowing Palestinian refugees to move to the West Bank.”
Why should refugees not be able to return where they came from? It is the basic premise of Zionism that refugees should be able to return to where they (in fact didn’t actually) come from, no? Are Palestinians less human than Jews Cosmo?
Cosmo: “What is it about being a Jew that allow them to move into the homes of Palestinians born in the West Bank after generations of living in other countries?”
We’d all like to know the answer to that one!
Ariadna Theokopoulos
December 25, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Roy: “Clearly none whatsoever”
I have to disagree with you, Roy.
A “radical left Israeli” (RLI) in Tel Aviv, is profoundly at odds with an extremist settler (ES):
–The RLI hates that the ES is kept by the government while his own rent is getting higher. It is after all American taxpayers’ money that should be distributed more equitably among Israelis.
– The RLI also hates that that the religious ES does not do military service, an activity out of which one can get a lot of kick (Palestinian women and children) butcan be strenuous in-between biblical-named campaigns.
Unless you were thinking about the two in relation to Palestine and the Palestinian people, you are wrong to paint them with the same brush.
If you were, then, sure they are the same and as Emily Litella used to say, “Never mind…”
Roy Bard
December 25, 2012 at 1:56 pm
AT: “Unless you were thinking about the two in relation to Palestine and the Palestinian people”
Indeed I was – it was Cosmo’s own wording I responded to: if both think themselves entitled to be squatters on stolen land?
The slight differences between them are hinted at in the old joke:
Q: Whats the difference between the Israeli Right and the Israeli Left
A: The Right want Palestinians to be put on coaches and driven to Jordan. The Left want the coaches to be air-conditioned…..
David Holden
December 25, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Roy, surely you know this canard is a heartless caricature — was it by accident you conveniently forgot to mention the free bags of sweets and I-♡-Israel memorial yarmulkes for the Palestinian kiddies which were insisted on by the Left? to an unprejudiced observer little touches like this show quite incontrovertibly that the Left has a much more person-centered approach to evictions, and fully recognises that such times of change can be very stressful for first-generation emigrants. the Right, one fears, has little insight into or concern with such nuances