Al-Jazeera style guide:
- ISIS, Al-Qaeda not "terrorists" or even "Islamists"
- Muslim Brotherhood not "an Islamic/Islamist group"
- Armenian massacres not "genocide", but Srebrenica is
- "jihad means an inner spiritual struggle"
- Muslims not "fundamentalist"; Christians can be
Al-Jazeera style guide:
- Never refer to Israel as "the Jewish State"
- "never refer to [Jerusalem] as the capital of Israel"
- When Israelis go to the Temple Mount call it an "incursion": "Don't call it a 'visit'."
- Not allowed to refer to IDF
- Post-2005 Gaza "is occupied"
Al-Jazeera's style guide says #Israel's requests for delays on reporting soldiers' deaths so families can be told should be defied, but #China's belief that Taiwan "is not a country" should be rigorously adhered to and #Iran's Press TV must not be called "State TV".
Not exactly a revelation, but it is nice to see in black-and-white the extent to which Al-Jazeera is a propaganda platform masquerading as a news outlet. freebeacon.com/media/inside-a…
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In a surprise to exactly nobody, the captured HAMAS documents show how closely and directly the terrorists coordinated with Al-Jazeera to decide on the political warfare ludicrously labelled as "news coverage" to be broadcast by the Qatari State channel. terrorism-info.org.il/en/documentary…
"Across all its platforms, Al Jazeera spread the psychological warfare materials produced by the Combat Media Unit of Hamas ... In many cases, Hamas' military wing even used its channels to announce exclusive new content to be broadcast on Al Jazeera"
The most notorious part of Al-Jazeera's collaboration with HAMAS's psychological warfare was broadcasting Israeli hostage statements tortured out of them by HAMAS, calling for Israel to comply with HAMAS's demands, and the sick handover "ceremonies".
This is deeply embarrassing for all concerned - the experts and the journalists breathlessly relaying their claims. The more true it is that "genocide scholars" think they have a case study in Israel's anti-HAMAS war, the more discredit it brings on the field.
Amusing to see those trying to foster the notion of an expert consensus that Israel is committing "genocide" by fighting HAMAS insist the experts interviewed are not activists and that no comparison is being made with the Holocaust. They protest too much.
Every claim of genocide at least implicitly invokes the Holocaust. Apart from the Shoah being the historical context for the codification of genocide, it is the unique, "pure" instance: Jews posed no threat to the German State, and the attempt to annihilate them was total.
This is a completely anodyne statement of compassion and prudence - it is rather well attested that there is a contagious aspect to suicide. But the replies are absolutely unhinged from the "pro-Palestine" set. A truly suicidal movement, in every respect.
If Aaron Bushnell, the US airman who immolated himself, is to be taken seriously ideologically - rather than us mourning the suicide of a disturbed person - the results are not pretty.
He was a straight-out HAMAS supporter, thought Israel was the Nazis of our time
Aaron Bushnell, the US airman who immolated himself, was very clear that he thought HAMAS kidnapping and slaughtering Israelis at the music festival of October 7 was justified. He thought all Israelis were settlers and made his Nazi allusion again, people having fun beside a camp
#Israel's opening presentation before the ICJ show trial was very dignified and soberly done, not just by comparison with the raft of hysterical lies from the ANC's South Africa.
A point #Israel made at the ICJ that it should have made more of before now: "genocide" describes Oct. 7 and HAMAS' public political program. The Genocide Convention mandates action to prevent or to punish. So, why have others not joined the operation to eliminate HAMAS?
If the ANC's South Africa was so concerned about genocidal actors in former Mandate Palestine, it would have arrested HAMAS official Basem Naim in early December. Instead, Naim was feated and presented with a Mandela grandchild, who is an ANC MP, of course apnews.com/article/hamas-…
#Israel's strike in Beirut a short while ago killed Saleh al-Aruri, the overall deputy of #HAMAS. There are also reports in the Arab press that Osama Hamdan, the "official" HAMAS representative in #Lebanon, was killed, and it seems some "military wing" HAMAS officials, too.
Note the reports #Israel struck near a "Hizballah headquarters": this refers to the #IRGC's nerve centre for the whole Northern Middle East, the most important outpost of the Islamic Revolution outside Iran.
Whoever turns out to have been killed in #Israel's strike in Beirut, "HAMAS" leaders destroyed at a "Hizballah" headquarters should help put to rest the idea these are separate groups: it's all #Iran's IRGC, one region-wide Islamist network. meforum.org/62821/whither-…
Henry Kissinger is dead at 100. His time in power abetted the onward march of Communism and brought the West to its lowest ebb at the end of the 1970s. We managed to halt and destroy the Soviet Union, but his empowerment of Red China is now the gravest threat to the Free World.
Kissinger's "opening" to Red China was the most grotesque sell-out: he gave Peking everything it wanted, over Taiwan, before the "negotiations" even began. Afterwards, of course, at Tiananmen Square and beyond, Kissinger was always there to defend the CCP. kyleorton.substack.com/p/nixon-kissin…
Kissinger's betrayal of South Vietnam is probably the most notorious of his disasters. It is not retrospective either: President Thieu knew what was happening in real time and said so. (An aside: Thieu, born within a month of Kissinger, died in 2001. Only the good die young.)