Thread: Israel savages Gaza - again What the media aren't telling you.

CNN Reporter Calls Israelis "SCUM"

By Onan Coca / 21 July 2014


Last Thursday night CNN's International correspondent Diana Magnay made a HUGE mistake when she decided to call a group of Israeli's scum. Yep. She called them scum. It happened after she appeared with Wolf Blitzer to discuss the conflict in Israel, where she told Blitzer that “It is an astonishing, macabre and awful thing to watch this display of fire in the air."



But what got her into trouble was a tweet she sent out after her interview. Perhaps there are times when we should excuse reporters for their failings... but this isn't one of those times. Has Magnay considered that the people living in the town where she was may be under constant threat of attack? Perhaps they worry every day that the rockets fired by Hamas that continually land in their settlement will one day kill their children? Perhaps they've lost friends and loved ones to the violent criminals from Hamas who seek out civilians to slaughter whenever possible? CNN should do us all a favor and fire Magnay now.


This is what "unbiased" reporting looks like these days.


Read more at http://eaglerising.com/7441/cnn-repo...H5McocTp4TJ.99




Diane Sawyer, Diana Magnay media puppets, so much for un baised reporting. Well consider the source's I guess it isn't like we get honest reporting any time is it...To me each side is as bad as the other, but the name calling ticked me off.........

Diplomat: UN Gave Hamas Rockets to the Palestinian Government

Dispute over who the missiles were given back to



Palestinian children attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City / AP

BY: Adam Kredo
July 21, 2014 11:50 am

United Nations officials handed Hamas missiles found last week in a U.N.-run school in Gaza to the Palestinian government, according to a Western diplomat familiar with the case who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

At least 20 rockets were discovered last week in a Gaza school run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operates several schools in Gaza and elsewhere.

Israeli officials claimed on Sunday that the weapons were given back to Hamas, but Western sources familiar with the case say that they were turned over to “local authorities” working under the Palestinian unity government.

It remains unclear exactly where the rockets are now and who has possession of them.
Hamas backs the unity government, but its exact role in the government has become less clear since recent hostilities broke out between the terror group and Israel. The dispute over where the weapons went is a sign of continued uncertainty over the government’s status in the Gaza Strip, where local police are known to be Hamas affiliates.

“There is absolutely no evidence that UNRWA handed the rockets over to Hamas,” a Western diplomat working on the issue told the Free Beacon. “The authorities who came and collected the weapons are under the direct authority of the government of national consensus which Hamas has left and which many in Hamas are openly hostile to.”

A UNRWA official also maintained that the rockets were handed over to “local authorities” working for the official Palestinian government.

“According to longstanding U.N. practice in U.N. humanitarian operations worldwide, incidents involving unexploded ordnance that could endanger beneficiaries and staff are referred to the local authorities,” UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness told the Free Beacon in a statement.

UNRWA has come under fire repeatedly by the Israelis, who claim the agency has an anti-Israel bias and encourages hostility against the Jewish state. Israel’s U.N. ambassador demanded last week that Gunness specifically be removed from his post for an “ongoing pattern of anti-Israel bias.”

Gunness maintained that UNRWA “took all necessary measures” to ensure the missiles were properly removed from the school.

“Immediately after the discovery of the rockets, UNRWA proactively informed the relevant parties and successfully took all necessary measures for the removal of the objects in order to preserve the safety and security of the school,” Gunness said. “Local authorities fall under the government of national consensus in Ramallah.

They pledged to pass a message to all parties not to violate UNRWA neutrality.”

However, local authorities in the Gaza Strip, including the police, are under the control of Hamas. UNRWA did not respond to further Free Beacon questions attempting to discern the exact authorities or government branch the weapons were handed over to.

Israeli officials believe that UNRWA called local police to pick up the weapons. These police in the Gaza Strip are known to be loyal to and operated by Hamas.

“There is no central technocratic authority in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is in complete control, which is part of the problem and why the Israelis went in,” said Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

UNRWA now says that it has launched an investigation to determine exactly how Hamas missiles came to be stashed in one of its schools.


A “Board of Inquiry” has been established to examine “the circumstances surrounding the incident,” according to Gunness.

The board will collect evidence and conduct interviews with “material witnesses.” This information will then be used in an investigation that will commence when the conflict between Israel and Hamas ends.

UNRWA claims that this is the first time missiles of any sort have been discovered in one of its facilities. The Israeli military has claimed in past conflicts that Hamas uses the U.N. schools as a base to fire rockets.

“UNRWA strongly condemns the group or groups responsible for placing the weapons in one of its installations,” Gunness said. “This is a flagrant violation of the inviolability of UNRWA premises under international law. This incident, which is the first of its kind in Gaza, endangered civilians including staff and put at risk

UNRWA’s vital mission to assist and protect Palestine refugees in Gaza.”

According to a report released by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the incident is not the first of its kind.

“This case of placing rockets in an UNRWA school was not the first incident of its kind in Gaza, because Hamas and the other terrorist organizations routinely and systematically use educational installations (many of which belong to UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip for military-terrorist purposes,” the report says. “By doing so they endanger the children and teaching staff, and grossly violate the international laws governing war.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...an-government/

NBC Promotes Anonymous Palestinian Official Declaring Israeli Military Strike ‘A War Crime In The Making’

Published: 7/20/2014 10:00 AM ET

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By Jeffrey Meyer
a News Analyst

In the wake of the Israeli military launching a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas militants from continuing to fire rockets into their country, NBC has repeatedly taken jabs at Israel and its military.

In a report filed on Today on Sunday, July 20, Richard Engel, NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent, provided a fairly biased report on the ongoing violence in the Middle East which concluded by the reporter hyping a Palestinian official saying Israel’s ground attack “was a war crime in the making.”

The NBC reporter began his coverage by highlighting “scenes of devastation in a Palestinian neighborhood called [sic] is just on the outskirts of Gaza City, we're seeing children and bodies in the streets, women and children. What happened, we're told, is that Israeli forces early this morning tried to push into [sic] push in with tanks and armored vehicles.”

For his part, Richard Engel did note that “one Israeli armored vehicle was attacked by a Palestinian rocket, a shoulder fired rocket. That vehicle was a catastrophic loss. There were heavy Israeli casualties.” Unfortunately, nowhere in his report did Engel mention that the Israeli offensive was in response to ongoing Hamas rocket attacks into their country. instead, the NBC reporter chose to highlight the Palestinian deaths:

Residents were desperately trying to call ambulances. Ambulances according to medical officials, were not able to reach the area. There was a lot of damage. Dozens killed. One Palestinian medical official said it was a war crime in the making.

In recent days, NBC’s reporters have been seen showing sympathy for Hamas and the Palestinian people. On Wednesday, July 16, Andrea Mitchell, NBC’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, wondered “how long can Israel withstand this kind of international pressure?” Reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, was recently seen acting as a spokesperson for Hamas by denying that they use civilians as human shields.

The next day, Mohyeldin continued his trend of making controversial statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when he wrote on his Facebook page “the #US State Department Spokesperson just said that #Hamas is ultimately responsible for #Israel shelling and killing 4 boys who were cousins aged 9-11 because Hamas didn’t accept the # ceasefire. Discuss among yourselves.”

See relevant transcript below.

NBC
Today
July 20, 2014
ERICA HILL: Elsewhere in the world, we're following the story out of Gaza where it was a horrific scene this morning. From one of the most intense days of fighting, between the Israeli military and Hamas militants, one of the most intense days so far. Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in Gaza City now with more for us. Richard, good morning.

RICHARD ENGEL: Good morning. I think you can say this is definitely the most intense day so far. Scenes of devastation in a Palestinian.

neighborhood called [sic] is just on the outskirts of Gaza City, we're seeing children and bodies in the streets, women and children. What happened, we're told, is that Israeli forces early this morning tried to push into [sic] push in with tanks and armored vehicles. One Israeli armored vehicle was attacked by a Palestinian rocket, a shoulder fired rocket. That vehicle was a catastrophic loss. There were heavy Israeli casualties. Then Israel moved in with a rescue operation, sending in more troops, and to provide cover for that rescue operation they unleashed a ferocious bombardment on the neighborhood of [sic]. Residents were desperately trying to call ambulances. Ambulances according to medical officials, were not able to reach the area. There was a lot of damage. Dozens killed. One Palestinian medical official said it was a war crime in the making. Then amid pressure to try and create some sort of cease-fire, the two sides agreed to a two-hour window to allow Palestinians to go in, recover some of the bodies, even that window did not hold. The fighting there continues and this is hardly over.

HILL: All right, Richard Engel for us this morning. Richard thank you.

— Jeffrey Meyer is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Jeffrey Meyer on Twitter.

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IDF Calls Out UN for Lying About Gaza Civilian Casualties


UN Relief and Works Agency blamed IDF for civilian deaths


A crater from an Israeli strike is seen in the yard of the U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip / AP



BY: Adam Kredo
July 24, 2014 6:01 pm
Israel is calling out a United Nations aid agency for falsely claiming that the Israeli Defense Forces did not permit civilians to evacuate a Gaza school where 15 people were killed today.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) laid blame for the civilian deaths on the IDF, claiming it never received approval from the IDF for an evacuation from the facility.
UNRWA—which has been under fire in recent days for allowing Hamas to use its facilities to store rockets—released a statement claiming: “UNRWA had been attempting to negotiate with the [IDF] a pause in the fighting during which they would guarantee a safe corridor to relocate staff and any displaced persons who chose to evacuate to a more secure location. Approval for that never came to UNRWA.”
Earlier, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness had similarly accused the IDF of preventing a civilian evacuation.
“Over the course of the day UNRWA tried 2 coodinate [sic] with the Israeli Army a window for civilians 2 leave & it was never granted,” UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness tweeted, following the strike.
However, in an unusual move late Thursday, multiple IDF sources rejected UNRWA’s claims and characterized them as outright falsehoods when reached by the Washington Free Beacon.
“For two days we were trying to move people out of that school in particular and the Beit Hanoun area in general,” said an IDF official who was involved in the interactions between the IDF, UNRWA, and International Red Cross (ICRC) leading up to the incident.
The official continued: “This morning we sought a cease-fire in the area and a humanitarian evacuation of civilians, but Hamas refused—because they wanted to keep civilians in the area to protect their fighters who were firing on the IDF,” the source said. The claim by Gunness and UNRWA that the IDF did not respond to their request to evacuate civilians, the source said, is “a flat-out complete and total lie.”
When asked for further details about the incident, UNRWA claimed that its school in Beit Hanoun had been turned into “a battlefield” in recent days.
Many Palestinians, including women and children, had sought shelter from the fighting in the school, believing it to be safe territory, according to UNRWA.
“This is the fourth time in the past four days that an UNRWA school has been struck by explosive projectiles,” UNRWA said.
An official IDF statement released to the Free Beacon states that “the IDF authorized a humanitarian time window for evacuation between 10:00-14:00 IDT earlier today. Hamas prevented the civilians from leaving it and once again used their infrastructure and international symbols as human shields. In the course of the afternoon, several rockets launched by Hamas from within the Gaza Strip landed in the Beit Hanoun area.”
“From initial inquiries done about the incident, during the intense fighting in the area, militants opened fire at IDF soldiers from the school area,” the statement says. “In order to eliminate the threat posed to their lives, they responded with fire toward the origins of the shooting.”
“The UNRWA claims that Israel prevented the safe evacuation of the school in Beit Hanoun are unfounded,” the statement concludes.
The source of the explosion is being investigated by the IDF.
“It should be emphasized that during recent days the [Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories] has been maintaining close contact with representatives of the UNRWA, the ICRC, and Palestinians in Beit Hanoun,” the statement concludes. “It should be further emphasized that following this contact, the humanitarian window was authorized.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...an-casualties/

Israel Can Win

If Obama doesn't save Hamas

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BY: Matthew Continetti
July 25, 2014 5:00 am
Slandered, despised, insulted, degraded, Israel is nonetheless winning its war against Hamas. The number of rocket attacks launched by the terror group each day has been halved. The IDF is uprooting the underground tunnels Hamas uses to smuggle weapons, contraband, and terrorists in and out of the Gaza Strip. On Wednesday evening, Israel’s Channel Two newscast carried footage of Hamas terrorists surrendering to the IDF. The jihadists carried white flags. They stripped to their shorts, proving they were not wearing suicide belts. These are facts Hamas does not want you to know, images Hamas does not want you to see.
And you probably won’t see them. Since the evening of July 17, when Israel launched its ground offensive, Western media has been filled with Hamas propaganda. In the United States, the debate over the conflict is invariably couched in terms favorable to Hamas: Are civilian casualties too high? Is it safe to fly into Ben-Gurion airport? Has the IDF targeted schools and hospitals? One MSNBC anchor calls Israel, which abandoned Gaza in 2005, the “occupying authority.” Another praises a “gutsy” Israeli, who refuses to serve in his nation’s military.
On CNN, the Islamist Turkish prime minister says Israel has “surpassed what Hitler did.” A CNN reporter calls Israelis “scum”; a NBC reporter tweets a scurrilous article calling U.S. Jews who join the IDF “America’s Israeli jihadists”; and a writer for Gawker says it’s time to send the Jews back to Germany. Reporters once embedded with military forces. Now the talking points of a military force—the talking points of Hamas—are embedded in the U.S. media.
And yet the immediate danger to the success of this necessary war does not come from the electronic intifada. It does not come from resurgent anti-Semitism, or the United Nations Human Rights Council, or the failure of so many Western elites to recognize the causes of this war, their inability to distinguish between a democratic country struggling to protect its people and a terror state using children as hostages. Hate, law-fare, decadence—they are all challenges for Israel. But Israel can endure them for now. Israel is used to it.
What Israel should not endure is the premature conclusion of hostilities. Disarming Hamas—seizing its rocket caches, collapsing its tunnels, killing and capturing its forces—is vital to Israeli security. And an artificial ceasefire imposed by outside powers, a ceasefire written in terms favorable to Hamas, would undermine the security gains Israel has made to date. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have given no sign that they recognize this fact. Or maybe they understand it all too well: The Obama administration’s top priority is imposing a ceasefire at exactly the moment when Israel’s military success is becoming clear.
Secretary Kerry arrived in Cairo earlier this week. No one wanted him there. Egypt’s ruler, General Sisi, has no interest in saving Hamas through international diplomacy: The Muslim Brotherhood is his mortal enemy. Kerry then went from Cairo to Jerusalem, where he met with U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon, who flew to the meeting on a plane chartered by Qatar, Hamas’ primary source of cash. Kerry also met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is too gracious to tell the secretary to go back to Boston. (Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has said publicly what the Israeli government will not: Kerry is an unwelcome guest.) Next up was Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, who honored Kerry’s presence by endorsing Hamas’s call for a “Day of Rage” in the West Bank. Kerry “will soon decide if Hamas and Israel are willing to agree on a Gaza ceasefire,” Reuters says.
Kerry will decide? Who died and made him king?
There is no ceasefire in Gaza because a ceasefire is in no one’s interest. Israel’s objective is clear: degrade Hamas’ capability to fire rockets at Israeli civilians and attack Israeli communities from underground. As for Hamas, its interest is irrational, macabre, and deranged, but no less obvious: Promote itself as the leader of the worldwide struggle against Zionism and Judaism, while ensuring collateral damage that will foment outrage at Israel. That is why Hamas stores weapons in schools, why its military headquarters is in the basement of a hospital. Hamas is not interested in minimizing pain. Hamas wants to maximize it.
Who wants a ceasefire? Obama and Kerry. They need the diplomatic victory after the failure of their misguided and poorly executed bid to reconcile the irreconcilable. The president’s approval rating on foreign policy is abysmal. A ceasefire might help the American people forget, just for a moment, that their president has failed to influence events in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq, let alone advance American interests overseas. Since he became president, Israel is the one country in the world in whose affairs President Obama has seemed at all interested in intervening. It is the one country whose politics and actions Obama has had no trouble judging harshly. Next to golf, it’s his favorite pastime.
Who wants a ceasefire? Qatar. The sheikhs who bankroll the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera, and Hamas would see their status rise. A ceasefire would lend credence to the theory that the traditional Sunni powers—Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia—have been eclipsed both by Shiite Iran and by Brotherhood-friendly Sunnis in the Gulf and Turkey. Having lost Egypt and possibly Gaza, the Brotherhood finds itself on the precipice. A Qatari-backed ceasefire that does not include disarmament of Hamas would pull the movement back from the abyss.
“One of the results, one would hope, of a cease-fire would be some form of demilitarization, so that again, this doesn’t continue, doesn’t repeat itself,” said Tony Blinken, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, to NPR. One would hope so. Indeed, actual demilitarization—not hoped for, not partial—is exactly what the IDF is doing now, block by block, tunnel by tunnel. Why is the administration trying to stop it? Is a ceasefire that leaves Hamas with its arsenal really more desirable to them than another week of war?
This is not the time for President Obama and John Kerry to play to type, to promote bad agreements for self-satisfaction, for political gain. If they won’t stand behind Israel, they should at least get out of the way. And let the IDF finish the job.

http://freebeacon.com/columns/israel-can-win/

From the West Bank after he got shot he smiled and said we are the generation that will beat Israel...





It is a genocide!!
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#SaveGaza
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among inactive population#فلسطين_تقاوم 
#TEHRAN, June 23 (MNA) – About 12 million males has been neither employed nor unemployed, thus relegated to the consumer role among the population the last spring.
Since the beginning of the last year (beginning March 21 2013) to present, about half a million people have seen themselves jobless. The latest statistics provided by National Consensus about job market indicate that in last spring 63.8 million people from a total of 78 million have been in working age.

Statistics on women’s employment and economic activity indicate that 32 million women have been in the working age in the same time, which exceeded the number of male population by 233,549 people. Only 3.9 million females worked in permanent jobs, with remaining 28 million women retreated to inactivity of their homes.

Statistics show that from the working population of the country, only 2.5 million people filed for employment, which would be a maximum of 5 million people if unofficial numbers added to that.

Currently, 35 million people are in working age, with no decision made to play a role in economic life of the country. If the general reluctance of women in working age to avoid economic sectors is understandable, then, the inactivity and unemployment of 12 million males looms large as a critical issue.
#GazaUnderAttack
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The trouble is no one wins here...

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Middle East Fighting: This Sums It Up...




Middle East Fighting: This Sums It Up...
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Rubio: ‘Outrageous’ American Media is Defending Hamas

‘Please don't tell me that both sides are to blame here’

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff

July 24, 2014 5:01 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) lashed out at the media for their slanted coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict Thursday, blaming the terrorist group Hamas for the continuing violence and mass casualties.

“Please don’t…say that both sides are to blame here – that’s not true. This crisis would end tomorrow if Hamas would turn over its rockets and stop bombarding people,” Rubio said.

Rubio called Hamas commanders “cowards” for hiding in the basement of their command center while they ask their people to fight.

He continued, “Don’t tell me both sides are to blame here because it’s not true. It isn’t true. This is the result of one thing and one thing alone: Hamas has decided to launch rockets against Israel.”

The ongoing violence and civilian deaths are the doings of Hamas, Rubio said. “Hamas is asking their people to do what their leader themselves won’t do, asking their own people to get in harm’s way, to act as human shields because they want these images to be spread around the world…I think it is absolutely outrageous that some in the press corps domestically, and most of the press corps internationally, is falling for this game,” Rubio said.

He added, “So, Mr. Ambassador, what I would ask of you is that you go back to your government and you ask them to separate completely from Hamas, to condemn what Hamas is doing to your own people, to condemn the use of human shields.”

He closed by expressing his desire for the United States to support Israel.

“I hope the United States continues to be firmly on the side of Israel, because there is no moral equivalency here,” Rubio said. “What is happening between Israel and Hamas is totally 100 percent the fault of Hamas. There is no moral equivalency here. All of the blame lies on Hamas.”

http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...fending-hamas/