With a measure of passion, I hate to write this story again. But it is my obligation, as a journalist and a Jew as long as Israel is being tattooed by Arab terrorists. The daily newspapers defend these beasts by uniformly labeling them as “militants,” a calculated liberal-conceived lie intended to both incur sympathy and to soften the image of these mad men and loony women.
“Jews are news” is the second oldest bromide in worldwide journalism. Good or bad supposedly does not matter, but the media definitely prefers bad news. How else to explain that Jerusalem, capital of tiny Israel, hosts the second largest contingent of foreign journalists after Washington? They are not there to propagandize for Yiddishkeit.
Like many journalists parachuted into the exotic other-world environment of Jerusalem for a two- or three-year assignment, Toby Buck of the Financial Times of London practically has been paralyzed with intoxication since landing.
Typically, Toby’s tomes are generously lubricated with grandiosity. His favorite lead holds that “world leaders,” who can presumably include your dead Aunt Tillie, are wringing their hands and ringing their cell phones about Israel’s latest military action, which always is a retaliation for being struck first. Reporters have a tough time remembering the order of events.
The New York Times is one of the worst equivalency offenders. Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner’s lead said:
“GAZA — A surge in fighting between Israel and Hamas continued for a third day…”
Routinely, Mr. Bronner ignores the salient fact that terrorists attacked first. Israel, naturally defending itself, struck back. That is vastly different from “A surge in fighting.” Even slow journalists know the difference. An agenda is at work.
Here Was the Ignition Button
You may remember the newest bile spewed by the Hamas terrorists in Gaza began last month. A pack of Arab animals, like the sneaks they are trained to be, stole into a celebratory Jewish home just after Shabbos started on a Friday night. Once in, they slaughtered both parents and three of their small children.
To burnish their Arab he-boy image, they beheaded the infant in the family — probably because they thought, if allowed to live, she would have jumped into the family hupmobile, summoned officials and tattled on the Arab “militants.” Ah, yes. “Militants” has a warm, toasty ring. This is exactly why the Jew-haters at the Los Angeles Titanic, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Associated Press — left-wingers all — take the cowardly oath out and brand all terrorists as “militants.”
As the whole world knows, culturally jealous Arab terrorists have been beating up on Israel — daily, via firearms and the international press — since statehood became official on May 14, 1948.
Calculated Slanting
When Israel retaliates, the left-wing journalists who monopolize the media, play the equivalency game, blistering Jerusalem for needlessly accelerating Middle East strife and imperiling the Jon Stewart-like peace process. The principle of defending yourself when under attack applies only to Arabs.
And now to close and padlock the circle, let us return to the flamboyant Mr. Buck, who is closer, actually, to the rapper 50-Cent. Or Half-Off, as Toby is known to his colleagues. Loves rapping Israel’s knuckles, especially after the Jewish state has been attacked.
Here is his lead from Saturday’s edition:
“World leaders have called on Israel and the Islamist Hamas group to restore their ceasefire in and around the Gaza Strip, amid mounting concern that the two sides are sliding into a full military confrontation.”
Mr. Buck never has mastered shooting straight.
Please note the timing.
The mythical concept of “world leaders” often is a fake phrase, resurrected as a warning to Israel to back off.
On Thursday, another pack of Arab animals struck an Israeli school bus.
Shhh. The world was too busy to notice.
But Israel fired back, killing 9 Palestinian terrorists, including 4 civilians. (What is the difference between civilian and non-civilian terrorists?)
Ring! Ring! Israel went on offense, and by golly, the world just got un-busy.
Whoa there, dude, calls out the mean little punk from the United Nations, Ban ki- Sunlight Blinds Me.
In the world of left-wing journalists, there is no right or wrong, just oppressed Arabs (ask Bozo Obama) and insensitive Jews.
In Mr. Buck’s hot-breathed 12-paragraph report, his gushing opening teetered because he failed to support it.
For left-wing newspapers, “world leaders” is sort of an NPR-type concoction the way “militants” is.
Mr. Half-Off only identified two persons to justify his use breathless use of “world leaders.” Ban ki-Sunlight Blinds Me and the political tramp known as Lady Ashton. Mr. Half-Off said both “voiced concern over the loss of civilian life” in the Garbage Strip. Since terrorists routinely use fellow citizens as human shields, shouldn’t Ban-Ban and the Lady Is a Tramp address their “concerns” to the terrorists?
