Twenty-two dead, including four children, in Gaza in the last two days. And the world condemnations are nowhere to be seen. Because it isn’t Israelis doing the killing. Oh, and children were murdered. But since Israel didn’t kill them, they don’t matter.
Fatah fighters stormed a Hamas-affiliated university on Friday for the second time, hours before the two political factions grappling for control of the Palestinian government said they had agreed on a new cease-fire. Fifteen people, including four children, were killed in renewed fighting before the announcement.
With a total of 22 dead since Thursday afternoon, and thousands of Gazans huddled in their homes to escape the crossfire. Doctors said they were running out of blood to treat 245 people wounded in two days.
You have to look very deep in the AP article before finding this:
Fighting in northern Gaza killed two Fatah-affiliated security officers and two Hamas gunmen early Friday, according to hospital officials and Hamas. A woman and two children, ages 8 and 5, also were killed, health officials said. Three other people were killed Friday and a person wounded Thursday died.
You won’t see a world outcry over that woman and children, unless the terrorists manage to convince the media to claim the IDF did it.
What time is it, folks? That’s right. It’s Israeli Double Standard Time.
And interestingly, none of the dead are named. Their deaths happen in the Passive tense (were killed) while in the last paragraph:
Active tense, “The army said” – not even “an army spokesman” or “An IDF Spokesperson.” That’s just poor writing.
A Fatah- Hamas civil war – there has not been such a win/win scenario since Iraq fought Iran back in the 1980’s.
It’s no different from the way the media treated the “Poison” balloons story. When Arabs are violent, when Arabs lie, when Arabs engage in concocting incredible conspiracies, when Arabs show themselves to care nothing about peace, the media ignore them… it doesn’t fit the “Noble Arab despoiled by America and the Jews” narrative they jam down our throats. If the events show the Arab to be a bit less noble, or the Jews to be a bit too normal, the MSM will give us the Sgt. Schultz treatment.
When it comes right down to it, the media and the left care nothing about the Arabs except how they may use them as a bludgeon on “Conservative” America. Just as the Arab rulers use hatred of America and Israel to deflect criticism of their own rule, the media and the left use hatred of America and Israel to deflect scrutiny of their own bankrupt ideas.
Sorry, a bit angry today…
EricJ: You have learned well, my Apprentice.
I imagine the guy who offered the convocation at the Democrat National Committee meeting would blame it all on “occupation.”
They must have been killed by evangelical Christians. Because every major American Jewish organization will tell you, that is the number one threat to Jews today.
That’s a load of crap, Sean. While some Jewish organizations worry too much about the Christian right, none of them consider it the number one threat.
Cite it, or I call bullshit.
That’s a stock leftist argument these days.
The evangelical Christians are our American jihadis, they’re just as bad, they’re the ones we really have to worry about, forget the Islamic threat.
Oh, yeah, forget about the empirical evidence, Sean. You know, like body counts and severed heads? Why let that get in the way of your head-in-the-sand moral equivalence game?
Meanwhile, in a classic case of “boy who cried wolf,” Palestinian Arabs complain that nobody is taking note of the ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq, where Khaled Abu Tuomeh writes that the Palestinian population has been reduced by 2/3 in the last three years and Shi’ite militiamen slew over 600 Palestinians in Baghdad in the last year alone.
Gee, do you think it might have anything to do with the fact that the Palis’ false claims of a Zionist genocide (the Muslim Arab population in the disputed territories is actually rising) have destroyed this people’s credibility?
Truthfully, though, I don’t think that that’s it at all. I think that most people around the world who whine for the Palestinian Arabs don’t really give a hoot about them; they only care about the “Palestinian cause,” which is the destruction of Israel. People don’t denounce the misery inflicted on the “refugees” in the concentration camps located throughout the Arab world, so why would they care about a turkey shoot going on in Iraq?
A Fatah-Hamas war is like the Iran-Ira
Now, let’s be fair. The media had an even-handed take on the balloon affair. They reported the Israeli side–that the balloons were advertising that drifted over the border–and the Arab side–that the balloons were filled with poisonous gas, aimed at children and women, cleverly disguised as advertising.
I’m enjoy watching this, even if the msn are making a point of almost ignoring it. It’s like the 2000 World Series–unfortunately someone is going to win but you hope nobody does.
#5 Alan,
If you want to know more about the Imam who asked for Alah’s help in converting those at the DNC just read Debbie Schlussel’s post:
All About the Democrat’s New Imam, Husham Al-Husainy