Newsweek’s opinion editor Josh Hammer, whose bigoted history has been reported here, engaged in a new attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, essentially accusing her of dual loyalty. No mention has been given to the fact that Palestinians being attacked in Gaza are largely refugees forced from homes and lands in 1948 in what is now Israel. Palestinians have stated this fact for decades and since the start of the year both Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch have asserted this reality. Israel’s standing as practicing apartheid has been widely omitted.
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We heard several booms - hamas militant wing says it’s in retaliation for what’s happening in Jerusalem- Hadas Gold The New York Times, for its part, appeared wildly uninformed when it referred to Hamas launching a “surprise volley of rockets toward Jerusalem.” But there was no surprise involved.Īs my colleagues reported Monday: “The military wing of the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas issued an ultimatum giving Israel an hour – until 6 pm local time – to withdraw its forces from al-Aqsa and the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, and free detainees.”Īs they noted: “When that deadline passed, volleys of rockets were fired toward Jerusalem.” The New York Times has a responsibility to report the full story. Red alert sirens across Israel - including in Jerusalem. Why can it not be said that Palestinian resistance groups were retaliating for Israel’s attacks on Palestinians praying at al-Aqsa mosque? Journalists and their kneejerk biases require examination.ĬNN’s Hadas Gold did accurately tweet out that Hamas said it was retaliating for Israel’s actions in Jerusalem. Mainstream media too frequently insist on a narrative in which Israel “retaliates.” The Washington Post’s timeline fraud is perhaps the clearest example to date.Įven yesterday, the narrative already was of an Israeli retaliation. That rocket fire, meanwhile, was in response to Israeli violence in Jerusalem Monday and in the days before that has seen hundreds of Palestinians wounded, some in critical condition. Most of the Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes prior to the Palestinian rocket that killed two Israelis. “A day of upheaval at the holy sites of this contested city quickly widened into a night of warlike violence in communities across the country Tuesday, with hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip resulting in the deaths of at least two Israelis and retaliatory airstrikes killing at least 26 Gazans, according to Palestinian officials and Israeli media.”īut this reverses the chronology of reality. Its opening paragraph on the latest news from Palestine claimed: The Washington Post went out of its way to mislead readers today. The war would culminate in a cease-fire with favorable terms to King Hussein that were critical to the survival of the royal family.Mainstream media are failing Palestinians once again. Hussein acknowledged his error after 1995 by supporting efforts to oust Saddam.īlack September Some of the darkest days in Jordan’s history, Black September, also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was a conflict fought in September of 1970 between the Jordanian Armed Forces and Palestine Liberation Organisation, who had begun to openly call for the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy. His people supported Iraq enthusiastically, so he felt little choice.
In August 1990, the king took an accommodating view towards the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, costing Jordan its relations with the United States, United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia and gaining virtually nothing in return. Despite the advice of Crown Prince Hassan and probably Queen Noor, Hussein stood by Saddam throughout the Iran-Iraq War and the two years after. This was most apparent in his relationship with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and up to 1995. Hussein could also be blind to a friend’s failings.
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