The Guardian has done it again, shown its true Jew-hating colors to the world. And no, I don’t mean anti-Israel. Disgust at a country has to be founded on facts, whereas Jew-hatred does not. And there is no factual basis to the lies, insinuations, and distortions found in this latest Guardian piece.
So what it is this time?
Remember the four kids who were killed on the beach during last summer’s war “Operation?” The IDF concluded its investigation and to make a long story short, everyone knew this part of the beach was a Hamas operative stronghold. It isn’t even easy for civilians to get in there. If the kids were there, it’s because someone wanted them there as human shields.
We, those of us who care for the truth more than about smearing one side or another, suspected this all along. But the media was quick to trumpet the news: the IDF targeted little Arab kids.
And while there would be an independent IDF investigation, it would be long in coming as the wheels of bureaucracy and justice grind inexorably forward, and ultimately, no one would care about the truth.
The original report and the false implication would be all that remains: Israel targets innocent little Arab kids playing on the beach.
In fact, if you would go to any pro-Pallywood Facebook group, someone will bring this up: Israel targets innocent little Arab kids playing on the beach. And it won’t matter worth a damn if you cite the conclusions of the IDF investigation.
Indelible Stain
The stain of the lie is indelible.
And no one applies common sense: why would any caring parent allow their kids to play in such a dangerous place? And if you put the question out there, on that imaginary Facebook thread, someone will invariably say that the poor Gazan children have no place to play because Israel has destroyed their homes, playgrounds, and schools.
But I digress. I meant to talk about The Guardian’s latest gust of Jew-hating WIND. The title: Israel exonerates itself over Gaza beach killings of four children last year.
The Slant
So is that not slanted or what? “Israel exonerates itself” for killing little Arab kids playing on the beach. The implication? Oh yes. Israel killed them. Then put on a monkey trial of an investigation and exonerated itself.
Does anyone bother to consider that the conclusions of the IDF investigation were reasonable? Is it possible that Israel really DID NOT purposely target little kids at play?
But no, the facts don’t matter here. What matters is tarring Israel, or rather, generating feelings of hatred and disgust toward the, um, JEWISH state and its defenders.
The preview of the accompanying video? An Arab crying out in anguish, presumably over the deaths of his four little children WHOM HE SENT TO PLAY IN A HAMAS OPERATIVE STRONGHOLD SO THEY COULD BE KILLED AND BECOME MARTYRS.
Hateful Jews Israelis
But no, The Guardian doesn’t say this. They show the anguish. They imply it is/was deliberately caused by those hateful Jews Israelis.
Does it get any better as one reads the actual body of the text? No. It gets worse. Worse and worse. Every line of this piece contains one or more implications that Israel purposely killed four little Arab kids playing on the beach and the truth be damned. Because Jew-hatred sells. Jew-hatred draws views.
People like to hate the Jews.
It’s a shame the IDF spent money and time on investigating this incident. Because no one cares. If it doesn’t damn the Jews, it’s not interesting. And exonerating the Jews?
Look at the use of quotation marks here:
Israel’s advocate general’s office said the attack, which led to the death of four boys aged between nine and 11 was a “tragic accident”.
The quotation marks are a popular way of framing a quote to make it seem insincere: he CALLED it an accident. But we know better.
The quotations appear again around the word “compound,” as in:
An account of the investigation, posted late on Thursday by military spokesman Lt Col Peter Lerner, said the strike had targeted a “compound” which had been known as belonging to Hamas’s Naval Police and Naval Force (including naval commandos).
Thus giving the impression that the IDF is just making stuff up. If called on it, you know what they’d say: Why would anyone in their right mind think that kids would be playing in a naval compound?
Why indeed. And the very outrageousness of the idea: that kids would be sent to play in a place they are liable to be killed is taken as proof of the ridiculousness of the Israeli claim of innocence.
And yet we live in a world where journalists are beheaded. No one is really that naïve. They just aren’t willing to think when it comes to Jews and Israel.
Because Jews.
[J]ournalists who attended the scene in the immediate aftermath of the attack – including a reporter from the Guardian – saw a small and dilapidated fisherman’s hut containing a few tools where the children had been playing hide-and-seek.
Mohammad Ramiz Bakr, 11, Ahed Atef Bakr and Zakariya Ahed Bakr, both 10, and Ismail Mahmoud Bakr, nine, were killed when they were hit by explosive rounds. Three of them died as they sought to flee the beach after the first child was killed.
“Playing hide and seek,” “sought to flee,” lots of literary devices here to evoke sympathy toward the Arabs and enmity toward the Jews. The investigation doesn’t matter. The facts don’t matter.
The impression is what matters.
Breaking The Silence
The Guardian author, Peter Beaumont, drags in Breaking the Silence, the infamous group of anonymous soldiers who slander the IDF with their tales of horrendous Arab abuse by the IDF but who won’t go on record with their names (so they probably aren’t really soldiers).
But who cares?
It’s the stain on the Jews that matters.
We see endless quotation marks used to imply insincerity regarding the IDF investigation, though no real reason is given for these suspicions of dishonesty. We read “extensive criminal investigation” and understand that they probably sent one young kid, wet behind the ears, to the scene and then dismissed his findings and announced the IDF’s innocence.
Below the piece? We see old pieces relating to the original reports damning Israel for killing four little Arab kids on a beach with equally salacious titles and photos. “Families’ four children buried as bombardment continues.”
Never mind the CAUSE of that bombardment. Thousands of missiles shot into Israel making life unbearable for hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians.
A photo of an anguished Arab kissing the hand of a (dead?) loved one with the headline: “Four children killed in single Israeli airstrike.”
Because Jews. Jews did that. Hateful Jews.
You just can’t trust them.
The Thrust
That is the thrust of this piece. And that is the thrust of all anti-Israel reporting: Israel is untrustworthy, dishonest, and cruel.
Never is this proven. The allegation is enough to satisfy the masses and their lust for triggering their evil hatred toward my people.
Never does anyone consider what life is like under constant missile attack. Never does the reader NEED to consider this very salient point, because no one tells him why Israel is fighting back. No one needs to tell him that and he, the reader, has no reason to care.
The stain is all that matters EVER and the truth simply doesn’t matter. No one wants to explore whether or not Israelis have a reason to defend themselves or whether the IDF is telling the truth.
That simply doesn’t sell subscriptions or drive views.
But hatred does.
The IDF investigation, no matter how thorough, will not make any difference to anyone. The stain is it. The stain is all that remains.
The stain is all that matters.
