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The AP’s sympathy for Hezbollah terrorists could’ve been a Babylon Bee parody
NY Post ^ | August 7, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 08/08/2025 4:31:18 PM PDT by Twotone

The Associated Press just made it clear where it stands on the terrorists’ war on Israel: With the terrorists.

How else to read its bizarre puff piece Wednesday sympathizing with the poor, suffering Hezbollah goons injured in Israel’s pager attack last year?

The Babylon Bee couldn’t have come up with a better parody than the 2,100-word feature, “Survivors of Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover” — though that’s not how AP’s Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb meant it.

The two recount their interviews with six people wounded in the attack, all “Hezbollah officials or fighters or members of their families.”

Israel, they explain, launched an operation aimed at “harming and disrupting” Hezbollah members. Such nerve, no?

Except that this came as Hezbollah was firing rockets aimed at obliterating innocent Israelis — in “solidarity” with Hamas, which had just waged the most barbaric attack against Jews since the Holocaust.

Jerusalem “boasts” of the attack, seethe AP’s authors, who then cite critics claiming it “may have violated international law, calling it indiscriminate.”

Indiscriminate? It was the most cleanly targeted thing possible: Only Hez heavies had the pagers, and Hezbollah admits those wounded or killed were almost all its terrorist personnel.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; News/Current Events; Yemen
KEYWORDS: ap; associatedpress; babylonbee; hamas; hezbollah; houthis; iran; whatareapsfrnicks; yemen

1 posted on 08/08/2025 4:31:18 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

It was one of the most awesome attacks in my lifetime. It was the very definition of outside the box thinking. Likely never to be repeated but as President Trump says never say never.


2 posted on 08/08/2025 4:41:16 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Twotone
The Babylon Bee couldn’t have come up with a better parody than the 2,100-word feature, “Survivors of Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover"

El Rush-Bo often points out that no matter crazy the level of a parody, the Left is even crazier.

3 posted on 08/08/2025 4:44:34 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Twotone

In before the Bee makes a cirque du soleil headline.


4 posted on 08/08/2025 4:46:16 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

dang. Wrong thread. lol.


5 posted on 08/08/2025 4:47:04 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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