Posted on 08/05/2006 12:44:31 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Perhaps the biggest reason why so many Americans are confused about the chilling dangers posed by Islamic fascism is the reportage of the terror war by the liberal print press. Day after day, committed left-wing newspapers frame their coverage with an emphasis on the inadequacies of the Bush administration or Israel, not the aggressive worldwide jihad that seeks nuclear weapons. Routinely, those who act confrontationally against the fascists are marginalized and sometimes personally attacked. Continues...
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Fact-resistant Qana-rrhea outbreak in Media
*"Gaunt and exhausted, tormented with the worry about his missing family, Jamal Fayed yesterday wondered round the vast heap of reeking detritus," evidence of horrendous Israeli war crimes. -- The Independent
*"Israeli officials were desperately scrambling to explain the war crimes" they committed "as the international furore over the devastation rose to new heights yesterday." Evidence against Israel mounted yesterday when a British pathologist said that he suspects that allegations "that a large number of civilians died and are (still) under the rubble are highly credible." -- The Independent
*". . . the evidence of the Israeli army's absolute negligence in trying to protect civilian life is everywhere." -- The Economist
*"We are talking here of massacre, and a cover-up, of genocide." -- London Evening Standard
*"Rarely in more than a decade of war reporting from Bosnia, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, have I seen such deliberate destruction, such disrespect for human life." -- reporter for the London Times
*"Israel's campaign has actually -- has always -- been about: the irreversible conquest of (Arab) land and society." -- the Nation magazine, in a piece entitled, What Israel Has Done
*"Combating terrorism does not give a blank check to kill civilians. However just the cause is, there are illegitimate means, and the means that have been used here are illegitimate and morally repugnant." -- U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East
*The Israeli Defense Force has made a hellish battleground among the civilians . . . We are getting reports of pure horror . . . " -- Commissioner General of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency
*The international community cannot permit the wanton killings of "civilians and the destruction of the civilian infrastructure to support life. It cannot be right to wage war on civilian populations. The international community has a responsibility to protect, which it must discharge." -- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
*"It is in Israel's interest to behave like a democracy that believes in the rule of law . . . Israelis can't trample over the rule of law, over the Geneva conventions, over what are generally regarded as acceptable norms of behaviour without it doing colossal damage to their reputation." -- European Union External Affairs Commissioner
*"I plead once again, for the respect of international law, including international humanitarian law, whenever force is used -- whether by States or by resistance movements." -- Kofi Annan to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
*"The increasing violence of the Zionist regime and their military operations against (Arabs) has shattered the hope of the (Arab youth.)" -- French ambassador to Tehran
*"What was more shocking to the world was the human tragedy caused by brutal military attacks (against innocent civilians) by Israeli forces." -- China's Permanent Representative to the U.N.
Whatever.
But! There is one problem with these "I-AM-SHOCKED-AND-REPULSED-AND-HORRIFIED" comments you've just read: They have nothing to do with Lebanon, Qana, Beirut or images of Helen Thomas. The remarks were about the "Jenin Massacre," which, though widely reported in the media, never happened.
During the Jenin uproar, the TV media trotted out "Palestinians" describing in vivid detail, on camera, what didn't happen. The IDF was alleged to have massacred thousands of civilians at Jenin during a major counter-terrorism offensive in the spring of 2002, then of secretly burying the evidence in mass graves. Israel -- accused of killing Arabs and burying them in mass graves . . . as if Israel were ruled by 'moderate' Islam.
The blood libel was thoroughly debunked, but only after months of probes and investigations.
Four years later, it's deja vu, with CNN claiming, not just Qana, but 'all of Beirut' had been flattened like Dresden during World War II. Evidently, 'all of Beirut' amounts to a grand total of 5 blocks since CNN keeps showing the same section of footage depicting the same 5-block area again and again. No wide-angle shots. Just close-ups of the same scenes of disaster -- same collapsed buildings, same crushed cars, same clip of John Kerry. Kerry blames the conflict on the Bush administration's 'lack of engagement' in Mideast affairs, forgetting how this all started: The cross-border raid and kidnapping of those Israeli soldiers by John Bolton and Dick Cheney.
Israel is accused of having bombed 'Lebanon fifty years backward.' FIFTY YEARS! Five decades of advancement, Lebanon finally enters the 5th Century, then POOF! It's back to the 4th Century in a bomb blast.
Truth is, Israel, if it wanted to, could level Lebanon before the next commercial break. No glow-in-the-dark makeover, just conventional weapons. Actually, Israel's police force in Haifa could conquer Lebanon. On their day off.
Yet, it's quite touching to see the "international community" so concerned with "civilian casualties." Apparently, the "international community" objects to any act which results in Arab casualties, except for Arab casualties caused by other Arabs. In the past two months alone, 6 thousand civilians have been blown to bits in Iraq by 'moderate' Islam. But it's those 57 (now revised to 28) or so killed in Qana the "international community" and media libbies get their turbans caught in the ringer over. The media won't show pictures of people jumping from the World Trade Center but give you close-ups of the bodies of children pulled from that building in Qana. It's that CORPORATE RIGHT-WING MEDIA again.
Now it appears even Qana ain't gonna save Hezbollah. First it was the smoking-gun video of friendly Hezbollah missiles fired from your local ultra-lux Qana Condo complex with neighborhood civies serving as human sandbags. The Hezbos claimed they don't shoot rockets from Qana. No, NEVER! The video drove Israel's point home. With Hezbollah busted, Qana-gate fell apart eight hours later, which is roughly the amount of time it took the building allegedly struck by the IDF to collapse, in turn fueling suspicion that the building was blown up by none other than Hezbollah itself to force a ceasefire. Now, instead of a ceasefire, they're getting their Hezbutts kicked even harder. While the media was busy drinking the Hezbollah Kool-Aid, the IDF was busy zapping the Hezbo's heavy and medium range rocket launchers. They're all gone. What's left are the lighter rockets, as the IDF keeps pushing the 'rocket belt' further and further north. Life is good.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Have a great weekend, y'all.
Heck yes! This is one of your best!
YOU deserve to have a wonderful weekend, so go for it my FRiend.
Armies aren't created to protect life.
Yes, I know what he means, but this idea that armies go to war in "nice" ways is retarded. Armies are created to kill and destroy--that's why war is a bad thing. And since Israel is under attack by a non-traditional army 24/7, they have to respond in order to protect themselves. But that's something else I am sure the Economist writers don't get, though I imagine they wish they could report more Israeli deaths. I'm sure they'd be oh-so appalled at that. Yeah. Sure.
Question : If the liberal media are terrorist spies and allies, why doesn't the IDF target them as well? A few well placed bullets and bombs in newspaper offices just might bring their feet back onto the straight and narrow path of truth and justice. Also, since the hez-scum don't wear soldier's uniforms, why not IDF special forces in burquas?
I've never been so relieved for his return. I actually cried like a baby when we met him at Cincinnati airport.
These kids (most are about 18 years old) were not going to let Moslem terrorists ruin their aliyah.
I think he would have disowned me if I had him returned home while he was in Poland (when the hositilites broke out).
Z
Taking the late shift again, I see!
These psychotic genocidiacs are hiding behind Israel just to inflame their butchers. If Israel disappeared tomorrow, they would continue elsewhere.
You too have a nice weekend.
Well done, FRiend!
Y'all have a great weekend, too!
Well said!
Well said, JH!!
Thank you oh so very much for this excellent wrap-up!
I'll throw in another penny for good measure!
And a bump.
Good stuff, John. The Euros, and the Brits, especially, need to pucker up and face their historical responsibilities here.
The French can't be counted on from the get. The Suez Canal crisis marked the last of the French backbone in the Mid-East. After that (and the disaster in Algeria), the French have ever kissed up to the "Arab cause" in exchange for petroleum concessions from Iraq, Libya, Kuwait, and others. These insipid games started in the Sixties and have been going on ever since.
Thanks for the ping, JH2.
Reading your asterisks gives me a major headache, but it's the kind of headache every American should be experiencing. It's called a reality wake-up.
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