Posted on 01/08/2009 3:09:49 PM PST by Maelstorm
In a carbon copy of the 2006 conflict with Hizbollah, Israel is once again losing the media war. The Hamas cheer squad of CNN, the BBC (funded by all British taxpayers), the New York Times and the Guardian is raining propoganda bombs on Israel as surely as the 6,000 Qassam rockets that have hit its southern borders from Gaza.
Despite a clear cut case of self-defence that even the Muslim countries of Egypt (‘Hamas are more interested in having the injured serve as pawns in their propaganda war on Western TV networks‘), Saudi Arabia (‘Arab states should call a spade a spade…let Hamas accept responsibility for once..‘) and the Palestinian Authority (‘we talked to them and we told them ‘please, we ask you, do not end the truce. Let the truce continue and not stop’ so that we could have avoided what happened”) accept is of Hamas’ own making, the Western media continue to hold Israel to impossibly high standards.
There are no street protests over the ongoing civilian deaths in Sri Lanka, no marches against Russia as it threatens to cut off gas supplies to Central Europe in the midst of a freezing winter, no petitions demanding ceasefires in the war-torn corners of Africa, no hysterical over-the-hill pop stars crying over the children of Afghanistan. But whenever Israel sheds blood, the world demands its pound of flesh.
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agreed the BBC, GUARDIAN are in overdrive to make Hamas look innocent .
It also shows that the far left is ion league with them and Hamas so therefore they are supporting a terrorist organisation of which they should be arrested and have their press licences taken away.
Losin the media war just like Mccain.
The media has been on the wrong side of every issue from time immemorial.
It is a study in insanity. The media organizations who would be the first to go if they found themselves in a world dominated by Hamas are out there as they always are defending the guilty and maligning the innocent. Israel has never been the aggressor. Israel and the US wants peace it is the Islamic radical world that doesn’t. Peace is dangerous to their cause of world domination.
Israel would have to line up their citizenry and walk them into the sea to drown to win the media war. Even then they probably wouldn’t do it right or fast enough.
The media war is one war you don’t want to win.
Eventually you have to shoot back. McCain I believe lost that ability in Vietnam.
It’s the culture of ingratitude. I wonder what mobs of citizens would have done to the press fifty years ago if they tried to portray the Nazis as they do Hamas.
The Israelis are doing what needs to be done in the long term. But because the Israeli military doesn’t cater to Hollywood or Press filth, they are hated.
For decades Islamic cults roamed the globe, blowing up innocents with impunity, until the US stuck back after 9/11.
GWB has called alot of bluffs in this terror fight...a Palestinian State, Hamas wanting a seat at the political table, land for peace, etc.
And of course all these excuses for terrorism have failed...they cannot lead, cannot govern, do not want peace.
And the MSM have no more excuses for them, they are not victims anymore...Gaza civilians electing/hiring men with the stated goal of murdering Jews, cannot complain about Jews fighting back.
I think Vietnam messed up his head. It would anyone so don’t think I think it should have been otherwise.
Assume leftist prefer the destruction of Western Civilization, then everything fits.
Trust me. After 5,000 years of slander and abuse, we Jews don’t give a $hit about what the press says.
Insightful and to the point.
They’re always going to be behind in the media war, but at least they’re in the game this time around. They’ve been pro-active this go ‘round, rather than playing defense. At least we don’t have to expend as much of our own political capital fighting for them this time around.
Yeah your right about that, what he went through would take the edge off any man.
When I heard they elected Hamas I knew this was coming.
Hamas is dumb. They could have built hotels, resorts, industry, etc., but no, they have one thing and that is to kill Jews.
I know it sounds cruel to say but they deserve what they are getting.
WHY do we care what media a-holes think or say about anything?
The best way to handle the MSM is to IGNORE them, and do what needs to be done.
Better still: At every opportunity where an interview with an MSM freak presents itself, look him or her directly in the eye... and say to the moron: “Go F*** yourself!” Then walk off the set. Would any of you not give a week’s pay to see Keith Olberman get his jaw busted on national TV? Would you not die laughing if Chrissie Matthews got his family jewels kicked into custard? Would you not raise your glass to the one whom told Katie Couric to go screw her father? Would you not throw a party if Geraldo Rivera got his nose broken, one more time?
Abuse and curse the press, because liberal MSM retards deserve nothing but your scorn. They have outlived their usefulness to this republic. The day will come when we shall find these treacherous quislings decorating the byways of America… each of them hung by their filthy necks, and left to rot as food for the buzzards.
Freedom of the press? What a mistake that turned out to be. We would be well off without the press. In the era of the internet, the press is no longer a viable institution worth preserving… it should wilt and die… the sooner the better.
Are you listening MSM? You better be, because when your day comes, there will be no one willing to protect you… and you will have very much earned your fate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/barack-obama-gaza-hamas
Well, there ya go. Game over.
The media supported the gas chambers in Germany and would build them in Israel if they could get away w/it.
Note from President Hussain: Your on your own Zionists!
Pray for W, Israel and Our Troops
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