Readers of this @AP article on Pompeo's arrival in Israel are not fully informed about the situation in Gaza:
1. Incendiary balloons are not simply a bid to pressure Israel to ease the blockade but also part of a longstanding campaign of attacks on Israeli civilian and property.
2. The blockade is maintained by Israel and Egypt together. This should be made clear to readers. While Israel controls land access from two sides and sea access from a third, any blockade depends on all four sides being tightly controlled.
3. If the issue really was purely the blockade, then Egypt would come under attack too. That Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza are targeting Israel alone gives the lie to that theory.
Readers deserve to know.
4. Possibly most important of all, saying that Hamas "took control" of Gaza in 2007 whitewashes what actually happened: It staged a bloody coup, throwing Fatah members of buildings to their death, and with both sides killing innocents and combatants alike until Hamas prevailed.
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After Two Years of Hell, They’re Coming Home – Part 1
Stories of Israeli hostages who survived years of captivity and are finally returning home.
Matan Angrest, 21
A young soldier abducted on Oct 7, 2023.
He was abducted to Gaza unconscious, and has survived sever torture, including electric shocks in Hamas captivity.
Elkana Bohbot, 36
Taken from the Nova festival while helping the wounded.
Seen weak and under duress in propaganda videos.
1/ Meet Nika Soon-Shiong. She's the pro-Palestinian daughter of the LA Times owner and has recently been appointed publisher of the left-leaning outlet Drop Site News—which now stands to gain a significant injection of funding to spread anti-Israel propaganda. 🧵
2/ Soon-Shiong’s social media reveals a consistent hostility toward Israel & Zionism. She's dismissed the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, described Israel as an “apartheid state” engaged in “genocide,” & even alleged that LA City Council was funding a “Zionist militia.”
3/ She sits on the board of the CPJ—an org that eulogizes so-called Gaza “journalists” who were killed while working for outlets affiliated with Hamas.
How much influence has Soon-Shiong exerted on the CPJ?
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This is Dr. Khalil al-Daqran — quoted endlessly by @nytimes, @NBCNews, @Reuters, @FRANCE24 as a “hospital spokesman” in Gaza.
Here he is shaking hands with Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader and mastermind of the Oct 7 massacre.
This is the media’s “source.” 🧵
2/ Just yesterday @nytimes quoted al-Daqran describing “catastrophic” scenes of disease, sewage, and tents in Gaza.
But on Oct 7, 2023—the day of Hamas’s massacre—this same man was publicly praying for Allah to “defeat the Jews.”
3/ @NBCNews also used al-Daqran to provide Gaza death tolls—numbers repeated worldwide.
But this “doctor” isn’t neutral. On Facebook he praises Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, and posts tributes to terror “martyrs.”
1/ 🚨 @BBCNews’ latest “explainer” on Hamas is offensively bad. It reads like PR for a terror group. It sanitizes mass murderers & rapists — exposing the BBC’s contempt for Israel & Jews. The BBC has become what it claims to report on: a platform spreading hate. 🧵
2/ The headline: “What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel?”
Not: “Why did Hamas massacre 1,200 Israelis on Oct 7?”
The BBC frames it as a “fight” & parrots Hamas lines — “decades of oppression,” “blockade,” even “defending Islam’s 3rd holiest site.”
3/ Much of it is just wrong. Hamas hasn’t said it only wants the West Bank & East Jerusalem.
It has openly, repeatedly declared it wants to wipe out all Jews & Israelis.
Hamas’s charter is explicit: “Israel will exist until Islam obliterates it.”
The UN's "genocide" case was rigged from the start.🧵
This week, the @unitednations Commission of Inquiry dropped a 72-page report accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza.
The headlines went viral.
@unitednations But the report itself? Not so much.
It was full of biased commissioners, cherry-picked quotes, Hamas-supplied data, omissions of tunnels and hostages, and fabricated stories.
1/ 💥 This @Reuters piece is as vile as its headline. It paints Hezbollah terrorists as victims of Israel’s pager strike. Then it lies — calling the op the “opening salvo” of the war. Wrong. Hezbollah fired first, Oct 8, 2023.
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2/ Like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah hides in hospitals & schools. @Reuters admits this — then calls one a “Hezbollah-affiliated facility.” Translation: a terror outpost where the “hospital director” had a Hezbollah pager for “maintenance.” You can’t make this up.
3/ Reuters brags about an “investigation” proving what Israel already said: it planted explosives in Hezbollah devices. The big reveal? Those devices were with Hezbollah fighters — or, as Reuters coyly puts it, “members of Hezbollah’s social services branches.” Journalism or PR?