“Hamas uses the Palestinian population as human shields.
Hamas’s strategy is to intensify the suffering of Gazans, based on the belief
that Israel is to be blamed.” Israeli official quoted in the Daily Telegraph
AN INTERESTING PIECE written by Con Coughlin in
today's Daily Telegraph [1]
suggests that Hamas was planning an attack on Israel settlements next month to
capture as many Israeli civilians as they could and returning them through
their system of tunnels back into Gaza.
The
date for the attack was to have been September 24, the Jewish New Year. The
information was gathered by Israeli intelligence from those Hamas fighters it
captured during its incursion into Gaza. Whether this story will make any
headlines on the various UK news channels… I very much doubt. By any standards
of objectivity the BBC, Sky, and Channel Four's coverage has been an absolute
disgrace. No wonder the BBC refuses to release the Balen Report into the
corporation's coverage of Israel…even to the extent of spending hundreds of
thousands of viewers tax pounds on lawyers to help them bury it.
Also
in Mr Coughlin's piece he gives an insight into Hama's tunnels and the threat
they presented to Israel: "… when
you examine the impressive scale of the network of tunnels, the location and
the equipment stored in them, it is hard not to sympathise with Israel. For,
far from being a conduit for smuggling bags of rice and medical supplies to
needy Palestinians, it is clear that they have been constructed with a far more
sinister purpose in mind."
Mr Coughlin reports an Israeli
officer comparing the system of tunnels baring a favourable comparison to the
London Underground; some of them large enough to drive lorries through, and many
of them extending beyond the Gazan border into Israel.
In a Hamas manual recovered by the
IDF on urban warfare; the manual, to quote Mr Coughlin, "extols the
benefits of civilian deaths, arguing that 'the destruction of civilian homes
increases the hatred of the citizens[2] towards the
attackers'."
I HAVE NO DOUBT that (presumably) Mossad
gathered the information about the September 24th attack, and
therefore it will be dismissed by Hamas as being solicited under torture and
therefore valueless…and the Western media will be in sympathy with Hamas's
judgement, as they always seem to be.
It
makes me wonder what the latest crop of journalists were taught at our
universities; many of whom have banned Israeli academics from speaking or
debating on their resentful and ever more bigoted academic premises. We have to
ask. Do any, or many television journalists have an inbuilt prejudice, gleaned
while at a liberal university, toward Israel?
One
up and coming young journalist that Sky News sent into Gaza for the first two
weeks of the conflict was a young lady called Sharene Tadros. This hyperactive
and ambitious young journalist, ambulance chased all over Gaza in those first
two weeks looking for bruised, bloodied, and dead children with little regard
for journalistic impartiality. She was like a demented train spotter, but seeking
suffering instead of steam. Her displays became almost pornographic.
The
more she could pin on the Israeli's the better. Only a cursory reference to
Hamas pouring some 3,000 rockets into Israel passed her lips - a feeble attempt
at impartiality? Her behaviour reminded me of that episode from Drop the Dead
Donkey where a grim-faced television journalist stood before a pile of rubble
buried under which were meant to be children; and to prove the point he had
planted a teddy bear on top of the rubble, and the camera focused in on it as a
final image to his piece.
Gaza
as far as UK television reporting is concerned emulates satire such as we saw
in Drop the Dead Donkey. It is as if journalists from the various broadcasters
were competing for an award…a BAFTA maybe? It is true that the media gain great
kudos from such trinkets to boast about among their competitors. And perhaps
this has allowed editors and producers of our 24-hour news service to create a
kind of gold standard of suffering; of the type Ms Tadros was attempting to
deliver, while ignoring in the process the journalists personal antipathies;
which I believe Ms Tandros has by the bucket full regarding Israel.
HAMAS ARE leading the 24 hour UK
news media by their collective nose. But those journalists working for the
media seem to be the willing propagandists in the Palestinian cause; which is
the very negation of the impartial values they signed up to when they joined
the profession, and especially when they are sent forth to report on foreign soil.
Hamas
has brought its own people on the Gaza Strip to this sorry mess. How can you
blame the Israelis' for defending themselves? But as far as the UK 24-hour
media news is concerned… you can.
The
UK liberal media blames the Israelis for Iron Dome, and by doing so making it
an unequal contest. If those 3,000 missiles sent from Gaza had not been
intercepted, and untold hundreds or even thousands of Israelis had been killed
by them; then the incursion would have been justified …this is liberal
proportionality at work.
This
word proportionality, when related to a nation trying to defend itself from
another that seeks to destroy it, is a contemptible concept but one which is
being used by the liberalarti in all of the main political parties within the UK
and the West generally.
Israel
is the one democratic nation fully prepared to protect its nationhood. It
rightly refuses to bow to its Hamas nemeses, uninterested in any kind of a
two-state solution, only in the herding of Jewish back into the Diaspora.
Unlike the UK, which is all too willing to abandon its sovereignty and
nationhood, to be part of a kind of Hitlerian or Napoleonic Greater Europe, the
Israeli's prefer to hold on to their homeland, and not sell it cheaply, as we
are prepared to do in the UK. The Jewish state will not go quietly into that
last goodnight, as they did during the Holocaust. After 2,000 years of being kicked,
and unable to kick back; they are now doing so - and they deserve all the
support they can get
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