Here we go again, in that dreary cycle where a barrage of Hamas rockets at Israeli civilians causes a barrage of media rhetoric against Israel. What part of “Death to Jews” do they not understand?
Seriously. Most Western media outlets misrepresent the conflict in ways that can only strengthen the hand of those bent on wiping the Jewish state and its inhabitants off the map. From headlines like “Israel pounds Gaza with heavy strikes as conflict enters second week” to sneering insinuations that Biden is retrograde in backing Israel, the press scrupulously avoids noting that the violence began with Hamas and will end, as Golda Meir reputedly said, “when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
Then there’s the trope where people condemn Israel, then Hamas, then call on Israel to stop defending itself. It’s a simulacrum of balance whose practical impact is Israel’s enemies get free hits until one day they carry out the “war of extermination and momentous massacre” Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha promised in 1948, the first of many occasions when the Palestinians were offered a state and said no, war of conquest first, talk of peace later.
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