The evil media

Melanie Phillips summarizes the “script” of the media’s coverage of the Gaza conflict:

So let’s get this clear. You produce claims that Israel is slaughtering hundreds of civilians in ‘carnage’ in Gaza, even though the vast majority of the dead are said by both Israel and the UN to be Hamas operatives. You ignore totally the Hamas operatives and you focus instead emotively on the dead children and grieving parents.

You make no mention whatsoever of the fact that Hamas are hiding their arsenals in and under civilian houses and apartments, in schools and hospitals and ambulances and mosques, thus making the inhabitants targets for Israeli forces trying to destroy the infrastructure of terror; instead you blame Israel for the deaths of those inhabitants. You fail to report that Hamas are herding Gazan civilians, including children, into buildings from where they are firing missiles at Israeli soldiers in order that the civilians should be killed; instead you blame Israel for the deaths of those civilians and those children.

You fail to report that the Israelis are warning Gazans through leaflets and text messages to evacuate before an attack in order to safeguard civilian life; instead you blame Israel for the destruction of that civilian life, which you do not distinguish from the killing of terrorists. You do not tell the public that sometimes Hamas even use these warnings to bring civilians into these targeted buildings in order that they should be killed for propaganda effect; instead you simply add these deaths to the toll of casualties for which you hold Israel solely responsible. You make no mention of any of these these crimes against humanity by Hamas, but instead you accuse Israel of massacring the innocent. [cont.]

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 09, 2009 07:02 PM | Send