A story popped
up yesterday on Yahoo.com (“ABC Goes Inside Gaza With an Israeli Armoured Unit”,
July 30, 2014). It’s about an ABC crew embedded with Israeli soldiers. It seemed
to be one of very few news items which showed Israeli forces in a positive
light. That seemed unusual.
Reader
comment to this story, however, wasn’t exactly ‘unusual’. It was stunning.
Given the press’s intensely anti-Israel slant, the comments you are about to see
seem totally out of place.
Is there a gap
between US leadership and the media on the one hand, and the US public? I’m not
in America. All I see is the anti-Israel bias of the press and the
Administration. Are these comments below a true reflection of the US news
audience—or not?
Reader
Comment:
--Remember
when Israel blockaded concrete because they claimed it was being used for
terrorism? The Palestinians claimed they needed it for construction and jobs.
Still sympathetic?
-- CBS News
(the news I usually watch) has devoted its news casts to covering Gaza. They
show lots of pictures of children victims and some adults as victims. They DO
NOT cover Israel--and do not mention that this whole thing started after
several firings of rockets from Gaza.
--It’s interesting
that all of the billions of funding that Hamas gets from its sponsors has been
used to build tunnels to kidnap and murder Israelis instead of building
schools, roads and businesses to improve the lives of ordinary citizens living
in Gaza.
-- Looks
like a lot of time and effort went into building those tunnels. Wonder how that
time and effort could have been used to build schools and infrastructure instead.
-- It's hard
to spin these tunnels. There is only one reason these terrorist would dig
tunnels and it's not for defense!
--I'm
looking at pictures on google and other videos of the tunnels and I can't help
but think that Israel is right with the embargo... The cement, wood, electrical
wire, nails, hammers, and all they need to rebuild Gaza is going to the
underground network of tunnels. The citizens are not benefiting, but the
militants sure are...
--Ok, I only
have one question here. How in the world is it that they [Hamas] can build
these tunnels (no small accomplishment) and yet not build infrastructure to
support their citizens? I spent years in the construction industry and I can
tell you right now these tunnels were not built over-night. These tunnels have
rails, electricity, concrete, steel, and who knows how much labour was required
to accomplish such a project(s). I am not trying to be a jerk here, but if you
are trying pretend to be the victim in all this it would help if you wouldn't
have put so many resources into building something that can only serve one
purpose…
This is what
Hamas has been doing with the funds it has received from the US and other
countries. This is what Hamas has been doing with the cement and building
supplies Israel has allowed into Gaza. The World criticizes Israel? Israel must
face an enemy which chooses to fight from behind women and children. The world
will record their inevitable deaths and condemn Israel. Hamas has only one
purpose: Destroy Israel and kill Jews--PERIOD. There is no difference in the
goals of Hamas or Fatah and Abbas. Only in the time frame in which it is to be
done. Hamas continues to fire and store their missiles in UN schools and public
buildings. They continue to fire on Israelis from the midst of their civilian
populations, just like Hezbollah in Lebanon. These are rabid, heartless dogs
whose purpose is NOT to make peace, but only to make war to achieve their
ultimate end--the Destruction of the State of Israel and the removal Jews from
the land. There will be no peace. Their goal is ONE PALESTINIAN STATE from
River to Sea with Jerusalem as its undivided Capital--just as Arafat expounded
till the day he died. NOTHING has changed. Israel is to make peace with an entity
sworn to its destruction??
--The
question of how many Palestinian women and children are going to die in Gaza is
not going to be decided by the Israelis — it is going to be decided by Hamas. The
Jews mean to live, Hamas means to exterminate them, and there will be war until
Hamas and its allies either weary of it or win it and the last Israeli Jew is
dead or exiled. It is Hamas, not the Israelis, that stashes rockets and
soldiers in schools and hospitals, while hiding and fighting behind their
children.
--The
misinformation being distributed by the Palestinians and their supporters is
staggering in its breadth and acrimony. I always thought that anti-Semitism was
a minority opinion and that the vast majority of people actually didn't
participate in that way of thinking. I was wrong. Most of the Christian world
hates the Jews. There is no other explanation for the support being given to
these subhuman vermin. Go Israel.
--
Who are
these commenting readers? Are they simply a fringe who do not represent the
typical American reader? Of the comments I scanned (200 of 802), I saw only two
or three that were pro-Arab. Is that representative of America’s news audience?
What’s going
on here? Can you tell me?
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