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AP torched for claiming they were unaware of Hamas intel operation in their building: 'Difficult to believe'
foxnews.com ^ | 5/17/2021 | Yael Halon

Posted on 05/17/2021 10:04:41 AM PDT by bitt

A 2014 Atlantic report claimed Hamas fighters regularly 'burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it'

The Associated Press came under fire Saturday for claiming to be unaware that they were sharing office space with Hamas militants in Gaza, dismissing the Israeli government's claim that the terror group was operating inside the media building that was destroyed in an airstrike over the weekend.

Multiple international media organizations were reportedly based in the Al-Jalaa tower, among them AP and Al Jazeera. Occupants were reportedly notified to evacuate an hour before the building was attacked by Israeli airstrikes in a retaliatory attack against the militant group.

The Israeli Defense Forces in a statement said that the high rise was targeted because it was being used by Hamas military intelligence. AP condemned Israel for the attack and claimed to have "no indication" that the U.S. designated terrorist organization operated from the building.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aljalaatower; aljazeera; ap; associatedpress; chucktodd; dsj03; gaza; hamas; israel; theatlantic; waronterror
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1 posted on 05/17/2021 10:04:41 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/17/2021 10:04:53 AM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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If this is true, they are lousy investigative reporters.


3 posted on 05/17/2021 10:06:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: bitt

Come on! Did any one from AP ever look at the Building Directory that in all tall buildings is right there on the first floor by the elevators?

Those Building Directories list all tenants in the building, the floor they are on and their office number.


4 posted on 05/17/2021 10:11:21 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: bitt

Clueless? Evil? of maybe BOTH?


5 posted on 05/17/2021 10:12:02 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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6 posted on 05/17/2021 10:13:31 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: bitt

They are full of it.


7 posted on 05/17/2021 10:15:16 AM PDT by Enlightened1 ( )
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8 posted on 05/17/2021 10:19:25 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: bitt

Are they trying to say that AP is NOT the media wing of Hammas?

LOL!


9 posted on 05/17/2021 10:20:55 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: bitt

It just makes sense for a terror organization to co-locate their press mouthpieces in the same building. Keeps the FAX bill down. :)


10 posted on 05/17/2021 10:21:00 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: bitt; Texas Fossil
What the AP’s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News

Tablet Magazine ^ | June 05, 2017 | Matti Friedman

Posted on 5/16/2021, 1:18:46 PM by Texas Fossil

Did 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.

In the Nazi years, according to Scharnberg, the AP was selling German images in the United States and selling images from the United States in Germany, allowing photographs of American Jews and others to be used in some of the vilest racial propaganda produced by the Nazi state. The AP was, for example, the “leading supplier” of images for a propaganda book called The Jews in the USA, and in third place among suppliers of photos for the book The Subhuman.

The former AP building in Gaza:

Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt Confirms the AP Works/worked in the former Hamas Operated Facility!


11 posted on 05/17/2021 10:22:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don’t mask! Don’t tell! by GranTorino!!)
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To: bitt

Can they hit the AP offices in DC too?


12 posted on 05/17/2021 10:25:11 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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Who cares either way? That the AP has an office in Gaza means they are a Hamas mouthpiece and a legitimate target.


13 posted on 05/17/2021 10:29:49 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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I am a big fan Of William Shirers Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, but IMO there is no way he got to write such an accurate first hand account of the Nazis without collusion! The same can’t be said of the AP Hamas propanganda arm, because they will never admit the crimes against humanity and will cover it up to save their sorry azzes!


14 posted on 05/17/2021 10:54:56 AM PDT by gr8eman (The "R" next to Snake Plisken's name stands for "Retired")
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To: bitt

Well, that explains their usual “completely lost” point of view on most stories!


15 posted on 05/17/2021 10:57:25 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: bitt

I am shocked to hear this, shocked I say.


16 posted on 05/17/2021 11:00:12 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Grampa Dave

I never get tired of watching that Tower of Babel collapse


17 posted on 05/17/2021 11:05:44 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: bitt

AP Lies.


18 posted on 05/17/2021 11:08:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Who the hell with the freedom to travel around the world would ever want to reside in that hell on earth called Gaza?

Answer: sympathizers


19 posted on 05/17/2021 11:09:33 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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gonna need a bigger bomb for that.


20 posted on 05/17/2021 11:09:48 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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