You know the mainstream media’s credibility has hit rock bottom when you can hear more adherence to truth from the mouths of Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama than from a CNN host.
“Are you an Arab?” asks the female Israeli soldier in the above video. “Only Jews walk here.” A little bit later in the same video we see Israelis confiscating (or perhaps stealing, if you prefer) solar panels from Palestinians in the West Bank. Yep, sounds like an occupation to me. But not according to CNN host S.E. Cupp.
And all this time you thought the West Bank was occupied!
Protecting Israel, Trashing Hebron: More Spin from the NY Times
By Barbara Erickson | October 30, 2015
Today in The New York Times we have a look at Hebron, a blood-drenched city in the West Bank, a community besieged by violent settlers and trigger-happy Israeli forces. In this month alone, some 20 of its Palestinian residents have died at the hands of soldiers and police, their deaths sometimes caught on video that belies official accounts.
But this grim reality is not the focus in the Times. The article by Diaa Hadid and Rami Nazzal strips the full context of the occupation from Hebron and presents it, not as a city struggling to survive under crushing oppression, but as a hotbed of Palestinian radicals, a stronghold of the oft-demonized Hamas.
Palestinians are waging an intifada to free themselves from Israeli occupation, but it seems the mainstream media are waging an intifada of their own–in behalf of Israel.
The Fox News host in the above video might have asked the former Israeli official about this past summer’s arson attack on the home of the Dawabsha family, or the Israeli government’s inexplicable refusal to prosecute the perpetrators. Or he could have inquired about the much more recent incident involving a Palestinian woman kicked in the head as a Jewish mob debated whether to kill her, or the execution of Dania Arsheid, a 17-year-old Palestinian school girl whose short life came to an end last Sunday at an Israeli check point when she was shot multiple times while holding her hands in the air–but I guess maybe he didn’t have time or just didn’t think any of these things were important enough to bring up.
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