Monday, July 16, 2007
In Hamas gulls the media, again, Melanie Phillips takes note of the latest entry in Tim Butcher's string of rotten, tendentious reporting (a blot on an otherwise good British paper): Israel 'is breaking law with Gaza ban'. Readers understand where the fault for the problems in Gaza and the crossing closures lies, and Phillips provides the reminder link. Let's get to the heart of the matter. Butcher:
After Hamas routed Fatah security forces in May, Israel has kept the Karni crossing closed. The reason given is that to open it would expose Israeli workers to a security risk.
"This amounts to the implementation of a policy of collective punishment which is in breach of international law because it involves the intentional inflicting of suffering on a civilian population," Miss Bashi said...
Snore. Such rote denial of reality can only stem from a strategy. So who is Sari Bashi and what is Gisha (like the color scheme)? From here:
She might want to start changing Palestinian society by....changing Palestinian society and the policies of the terror gangs and tribal overlords that run it. Israelis aren't going to stop protecting themselves for the convenience of terrorists.
You'd have a greater effect if you tried swatting Nahoul first. I'll leave off fisking the rest of this. You can do the math yourself -- lots of projection and refusal to face facts...the biggest problems facing the Palestinian Arabs are the internecine violence, the looting, the lack of civil society building and the terror thugs and murderers that make checkpoints and the rest necessary in the first place. Anyway, we've gotten to the gut of it: "will bring the claims and narratives of Palestinian institutions and individuals before Israeli courts (through litigation)."
Abuse and stress the courts, do propaganda, of which, press conferences are an integral part. Along comes Oxfam, another highly-politicized NGO, and Tim Butcher to report the thing with brain-dead credulity -- just what's needed to provide Bashi's dog and pony show the credibility it needs to sling a little more BS on the pile.
Even the UN says:
Kerem Shalom has been subject to regular attack by Qassam rockets and mortars fired by Palestinian militias which resulted in the crossing being closed. Six rockets and 22 mortars were fired towards the crossing, including 10 mortars on 10 July.
More of the truth is here: Main Gaza goods crossing reopened, and here: Israel reopens Karni to avert Gaza flour shortage, and here: Israel opens Gaza commercial crossing for trial run, and even the UNRWA blamed Hamas: UN: Hamas must secure crossings:
"It is very clear the responsibility lies with the Palestinians," Ging told The Jerusalem Post by telephone from Gaza, on a day when Palestinians fired mortar shells at two of the three open passages into Gaza.
Such activity, he said, "directly impacts on the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians living in Gaza."...
Gisha is funded in part by the Dutch Foreign Ministry, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and George Soros' Open Society Institute.
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Tim Butcher and Gisha's Propaganda Campaign.
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I mentioned Gisha previously back here. Seems in their zeal to get "trapped" university students out of the Gaza Strip, they included at least one fake on the list...and the Associated Press actually uncovered the fraud. Amazing.... Read More
Here's the type of map the BBC usually likes to show: And here's the type of map that current events have forced them to use: Spot the difference? BBC's usual reporting: "Israel's closure of border crossings amid continued rocket fire... Read More
I don't know of anyone who hates Jews or Jewish causes more than George Soros. He could be (and probably is) a card-carrying member of the ISM.
BHG