Airstrike in Gaza
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Check out the info on an Atlantic piece from 2014 and AP’s awareness of Hamas in the building in Gaza. Starting to look like the CEO’s comment was very unfortunate given his title and interestingly worldwide media abandoned his assertion very quickly.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/ap-slammed-for-claiming-it-was-unaware-of-hamas-presence/
It’s too bad I’d like to see the entire truth eventually come out without compromising Israeli intelligence on the matter.
The breathtaking naïveté of people who just assumed the Israeli’s would simply bomb the press is strikingly funny.
@loki said in Airstrike in Gaza:
The breathtaking naïveté of people who just assumed the Israeli’s would simply bomb the press is strikingly funny.
Comment of the day.
Abner: "What's that building there?"
Solomon: "Why, it's the building where the Associated (with Hamas) Press and Al Jazeera have headquarters."
Abner: "The IDF should bomb the shit out of it.
The American media.
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I’m curious, have they found a way to blame Trump yet?
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I’m curious, have they found a way to blame Trump yet?
@lufins-dad said in Airstrike in Gaza:
I’m curious, have they found a way to blame Trump yet?
Of course.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/psaki-trump-did-nothing-constructive-for-middle-east-peace/
During a press briefing Tuesday morning, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed that the Trump administration did not do ‘anything constructive’ to foster peace in the Middle East between Israel and the neighboring Arab states.
“Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don’t think they did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East,” Jen Psaki said of the previous administration.
In addition to proposing a broader plan for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Trump administration helped broker a cooperative agreement, called the Abraham Accord, between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, making it the first Gulf State to normalize diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. In exchange for gaining Emirati support for the deal, the Israeli government agreed to cancel its plans to “declare sovereignty” over West Bank settlements.
Members of previous administrations, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, dismissed the notion that any Gulf states would come to the negotiating table without Iran’s assent.
The Obama administration’s legacy in the Middle East, now resumed by the Biden administration, centered around the concession-riven Iran nuclear deal and the United States abandonment of Israel at the U.N Security Council.
During the Trump tenure, Jerusalem was recognized as the capital of Israel and Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights was legitimized. Trump bolstered the U.S. friendship and military partnership with Israel by scrapping and withdrawing from the Iran deal, and holding the Tehran regime accountable for aggression rather than capitulating to it.
The recent outbreak of violence between Hamas and Israel represents the most dramatic escalation since 2008.
While addressing reporters Tuesday, Psaki affirmed that President Joe Biden is not employing the same foreign policy and diplomatic strategies in the Middle East as his predecessor.
“We are not following the same tactics of the prior administration,” she noted.
She offered that the Biden administration is helping both parties involved in the conflict, a significant departure from the former president’s exclusive commitment to the state of Israel.
“The president has reinstated humanitarian assistance and security assistance to the Palestinians. That’s something that was stopped back in 2018 and we felt was not a constructive action by the prior administration,” Psaki added.
The Biden administration believes a two-state solution is the only way to ensure a “long term outcome that’s peaceful and lasting,” the press secretary confirmed.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/israeli-invasion-gaza-us-conflict-489464
Israel’s operations drew heightened criticism in recent days after its armed forces leveled a building that housed several media offices, including that of The Associated Press. Israel – which warned people to evacuate the building about an hour before striking it – has said it has shared information with the United States showing that Hamas based some of its assets in that facility.
So, the AP was in the same building as Hamas. The way I see it, there are two possibilities, neither a very good look for the AP:
- They didn't know, and they're shitty reporters.
- They knew, and they're enabling Hamas.
Is there a third?
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Hamas are the good guys, now. Please try to keep up.
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BLM has weighed in ....
https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/black-lives-matter-comes-out-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/
The Brad
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"Netanyahu determined to carry on with Gaza military offensive despite pressure for cease-fire.
Offensive?
Who shot first?
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BLM has weighed in ....
https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/black-lives-matter-comes-out-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/
@lufins-dad said in Airstrike in Gaza:
BLM has weighed
Will BLM find out what happens to enemies of Israel?
