Once again, the AP shows that it would rather spin the news in Israel than report it straight. After terrorists from Gaza slipped first into Egypt, then into Israel, murdering innocent civilians on an isolated road, Israel, as would any nation whose sovereign territory had been invaded by armed men seeking its destruction, retaliated.
Now, terrorists from Gaza fire rockets and mortars toward civilian population centers in sovereign Israeli territory. This is how the AP “reports” it:
A new cycle of violence began Thursday with militants ambushing Israeli vehicles near the southern border with Egypt, killing eight people.
Once again, it’s a “cycle of violence.” Here’s how a more responsible journalist would have reported it:
Terrorists from Gaza slipped into Egypt and from there into Israel territory attacking a bus filled with civilians. In response to this violation of its border, Israel pursued the attackers, seeking to protect its citizens from further violence.
Militants, possibly allied with the Hamas government in Gaza, continue to fire rockets and mortars at civilian targets inside Israel.
The word, “civilian,” was not found in the AP article cited in this post.
There are no civilian “victims” when it comes to Palestinian violence in the Western Media narratives…just “oppressors” and “martyrs”.
When you look at what has been done to develop Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha, Gaza could have been the same. The West and the Arab League certainly has spent just as much money on Gaza as the Emirate States have on these two cities…but such a different outcome, Gaza is a hell-hole. I fear that peace will never come til some Gazan strongman has a Deng Xiaoping-moment; proclaims that “getting rich is the best revenge”, declares Gaza a separate “third-state” from the West Bank and makes peace with Israel AND Egypt.
Otherwise it will be fire and flood forever.
Dan, good point. The “cycle of violence” euphemism is used to take blame off the terrorists (they don’t have free will, they only do what “the cycle” made them do) and make it sound like Israel’s fault.
It’s yet another form of “The Devil made them do it”, the Devil in this case being of course Israel (and perhaps its ally, the U.S.). It is also irrational. Since it’s irrational, and since Israel is the Jewish State, it’s a form of antisemitism. (Or perhaps anti-Americanism, to the extent it may be meant to slur the U.S. as well.)
Of course it’s irrational. Anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian sentiment is just some sort of fad, or it’s “the cool thing to do” or something. That is the only explanation I can think of when it comes to why the left hates Israel, a developed, liberal, modern nation. My hypothesis is that the left is full of irrationality, and that it’s cool to be liberal. Many liberals don’t seem to think about the issues. And, that would make sense given the leftism of the entertainment industry, since that is where most fads/trends seem to come from.
Is it antisemitic or anti-zionist? They don’t mean the same, but are used interchangeably in a casual-fashion.
Zionism implies Israeli imperialism, Ted. Are you saying Israel is (or has been) imperialist? That, as a nation, it is out to expand its Jewish Empire?
(If anyone wants to leap in here and say that Zionism on its own terms was not about making a Jewish Empire, you’d be right. Perhaps I misspoke. I meant, and perhaps I should have said, that invoking the concepts of Zionism / anti-Zionism here implies that Israel has been aggressive – that, by existing and by defending itself in its present manner and circumstances, Israel is somehow engaged in aggression and the subjugation of others. I think that implication is mistaken.)
To the anti-Semitic left, “Zionism” is defined as anything that Israel does to defend itself. Anything, any word, any action. In SAT terms…
Zionism : the left :: Dissent : the progressives
Both are evil, hateful and destructive, and therefore worthy of extermination by the very measures they are fallaciously adjudged.
“Never forget,” we’re dealing with people whose moral boundaries are defined only by the wickedness they imagine in their opponents, and are predisposed to commit the greatest atrocities, free of remorse.
Dan, I agree with you. I just came back from Israel yesterday, and was there when the terrorists attacks on innocent civilians occurred. And then when I watched the news to see what was occurring, the story began to slant, as if Israel was the aggressor. There were statements that Hamas was breaking the ceasefire for Israeli “aggression,” but never anything about Hamas’s non-punishment to their own people who committed this attack, or why Hamas did even apologize for these acts.
After talking to some Israelis there these appears to be too many Palestineans that do not want peace. It’s as if the people who started this Palestinean aggression and many others do not want a Palestinean nation, and commit these acts to prevent this from happening. I’m not sure of the logistics, but having a free Palestinean state would mean that many of these people would lose out on a lot of money and/or power, and that’s more important than peace and any semblance of freedom for their own people.