When will the media ever get it right? They are always shills for the fucking Palestinian assholes that have been lobbing rockets at Israel for years. The UN bitches at Israel, yet never once do they take the assholes of Hamas to task. Not once.
Anyone that says that Israel’s response was disproportionate is an idiot. Let’s say Mexico was lobbing rockets into San Diego on a daily basis. These rockets indiscriminately landed on schools, churches, Starbucks, or maybe the San Diego Tribune building gets hit, etc.
Does the US fire rocket for rocket at Mexico, or does it respond in a manner that knocks Mexico back into the 18th century? I vote for the latter.
Journalistic Malpractice
Stumbled on this over at Michael Totten’s place:
My friend and colleague Noah Pollak on the journalistic malpractice of some of our other colleagues:
Allow me to propose a metric for evaluating whether a journalist is behaving responsibly or not: If he reports that Israel bombed a UN school and killed 30 civilians, he is irresponsible. If he reports that Hamas used a UN school as a weapons cache and base of operations for launching mortars at the IDF, and the IDF’s return fire killed the Hamas cell along, tragically, with a yet-unspecified number of civilians, then he is behaving responsibly. If he wishes to be particularly scrupulous, he might additionally note that Hamas had rigged the school with explosives which detonated after the IDF took out the mortar team, killing a large additional number of civilians. And he might add that you can go to the IDF’s Youtube channel to view footage from 2007 of Hamas using the very same school as a mortar-launching base.
If your only information about the current Middle East crisis came from CNN, you’d think it boiled down to a bunch of high-tech Israeli bullies running around Gaza torturing Palestinian women and children, while tossing smart bombs on hospitals and blowing up UN schools with Merkava tanks. Almost no context is given. That Israel had done virtually nothing for the three years since voluntarily withdrawing from Gaza but grin and bare it, as missiles after missile, many courtesy of Iran, flew willy-nilly into the Southern part of their country – a fusillade no nation on Earth, civilized or uncivilized, would begin to tolerate – is barely mentioned or mumbled into a half-audible mike while the video plays bloodied Palestinian infants screaming for mama.
Truth, Lies and In Between 