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Monday, November 20, 2023

Denial of Evil

Here's some of Melanie Phillips' latest column, Media, lies and videotape -- Western journalists will never reset the lethal prism through which they refract the Palestinian war against the Jews

"There seems to be no limit to the mainstream media’s malevolence against Israel in reporting the war in Gaza.

"Until yesterday, media outlets were sneering at Israeli claims that below Gaza’s al Shifa hospital was an infrastructure of tunnels containing a Hamas command centre. When the IDF found a huge stash of guns and ammunition in the hospital’s MRI room, and revealed they had also found the bodies of two hostages one of whom had been murdered in the hospital, media outlets continued to sneer. The BBC’s World Editor, Jeremy Bowen, waved the discovery aside and said he didn’t find it convincing. He declared:

"In the Middle East, you see an awful lot of Kalashnikovs … and it’s not inconceivable that perhaps the security department of a hospital might have had them. 

"Yesterday, the IDF revealed that it had uncovered a 55-foot long tunnel down a shaft underneath the hospital, ending at a blast-proof door. It also released CCTV footage from al Shifa of a Nepalese and a Thai hostage being brought in, one of them clearly wounded lying on a hospital gurney and the other being roughly dragged through the hospital corridors with staff looking on. 

"One might think all this was proof positive that al Shifa was indeed used as a Hamas command centre, just as Israel had always said. But not for the western media, for whom believing that the Palestinian 'victims' of Israeli “oppression” are actually bloodthirsty and manipulative liars while the despised Israelis are their truth-telling victims would entail the world spinning off its axis and shattering into a million virtue-signalling fragments along with these journalists’ entire moral personality.

"So there was yet another hallucinatory exchange this morning on BBC Radio’s Today programme (about 2 hours 15 minutes in). Presenter Mishal Husain (whose approach to this issue one week ago I wrote about here) insisted to Israel’s spokesman, Eylon Levy, that maybe the hostages in the video … were being brought in for treatment. 

"Yes, she really did ask that. Had the Israelis seen footage of them being treated, she inquired? Eh? Since one of them was on a hospital gurney and was clearly injured, she persisted, did the Israelis have footage of him being treated?

"So let’s get our heads round this — one hostage was being wheeled in on a gurney by armed men after an attempt by their fellow terrorists to murder him; the other was seen being roughly dragged by armed men, one of whom held a meat cleaver, into a hospital where one hostage at least had been murdered on the premises; and this BBC presenter is asking whether the Israelis can prove that the hostages weren’t being brought in for treatment?"

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Those who hate the Jews and hate Israel will twist themselves into knots in their zeal to persuade you that the Jews are aggressors and liars, and that the Muslims are victims. They are actually accusing the IDF for the slaughter of over 350 people at the Supernova Rave.  By now, everyone ought to know what Islamic terrorists are capable of, but it's somehow easier for people to blame Jews for everything, especially for the murders of Jews. And in this environment, there are plenty of gullible idiots willing to believe the lies.

Remember that those who blame the Jews for the October 7 pogrom are the same as those who deny that the Holocaust ever happened.  And nothing  you can say, and no proof you can show them, will ever change that.

The only things we can do is destroy Hamas and other groups, and stand up for ourselves, by ourselves.

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