Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Hamas went too far

[Bill Ackman] later tweeted, “Something is profoundly wrong with the state of universities in America when the Palestinian President disavows Hamas while student groups from some of our most prestigious universities support the terrorists.” 
John Cusack, pro-Hamas

 The October 7 atrocities have the American press playing it straight. Sorta.

Just the News reported, “The main Associated Press reporter in Gaza covering the war was suspended from his duties while the wire service looks into his previous social media posts, which include comments calling for the fall of Israel and comparing the world’s only Jewish state to Nazis.

“Issam Adwan has made numerous comments against Israel, which were highlighted last week by Honest Reporting, an Israel media watchdog.

“In an October 2022 post on X, formerly Twitter, Adwan said that Israel was a ‘racist regime that is so similar to the Nazis.’ The post has since been deleted.

“In another post from October 2022, Adwan said: ‘The Palestinian revolt against the Israeli oppression will be a triumph sooner rather than later. No matter how strong or well-supported by the other tyrants, every colonial system will be overthrown.’

“He also reposted a statement from the BDS movement, a group that calls for the end of economic relations with Israel, accusing Israel of poisoning the wells of Palestinians. The trope of poisoning the wells goes back to when Jews were blamed for purposely spreading the Bubonic Plague in the 14th century, according to the American Jewish Committee.”

"14th century?

"I thought jihadists were stuck in the 7th century. Well, that is progress, I suppose.

"But the real progress is by AP, which for years shielded the military intelligence apparatus of Hamas from Israeli bombing by locating AP’s Gaza City bureau there in the Hamas building. Finally, Israel had enough.

"Reuters reported on June 8, 2021, “Israel’s military said on Tuesday that a tower block in Gaza housing the U.S.-based Associated Press which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike was also used by the enclave’s Islamist rulers Hamas as an electronic warfare site." . . .

No comments: