Over the weekend there was a spun up story emerging about a Palestinian woman who was released by Israel in the hostage exchanges taking place. Israel released Israa Jabbis amidst a flurry of propaganda asserting Jabbis was a beautiful young woman before being held in an Israeli prison for 8 years. When I started to tell my sister about this news report, before I even told her the details, she said, “Let me guess, she was a suicide bomber.” Jabbis was convicted of terrorism when her car exploded near an Israeli checkpoint, so yes, she was injured in an attempted suicide car bomb attack. My sister said she was so sick of all the pro-Palestinian propaganda and how disgusting the American liberal media is. She also said that if Israel doesn’t finish off Hamas and caves to the media pressure, they’re doomed. I agree with that assessment and yet so many people inside the Biden administration are trying to stall and derail Israel’s efforts to destroy Hamas.
My sister is retired from serving over 20 years in the Air Force and she also served in Afghanistan in the early years, so she’s knowledgeable about the suicide bomber/IED attacks against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel has been dealing with this threat too, not only their military and police forces, but also Israeli civilians – for decades.
One of the interesting “lifestyle” things that got mentioned over and over with the Oct. 7th attack was that Israelis that aren’t in urban areas have safe rooms in their homes to protect them from airstrikes. However, most of those safe rooms weren’t secured against invaders breaking into their homes. Imagine living where rocket attacks are just part of daily life. That’s what the Israelis have put up with for decades now. I bet there will be security upgrades to safe rooms in Israeli homes after this Oct. 7th attack.
Why on earth anyone buys into this Palestinian “colonizer” propaganda is beyond me. The entire spread of Islam was one of bloody conquest, and forced submission of the conquered. And with displaced Palestinians when the state of Israel was established, well, more than 850.000 Jews were forced to leave Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. That’s why this entire Palestinian victimhood narrative strikes me as dishonest.
The lying by Hamas and the “ceasefire” media choir in the Hamas-Israel war has exceeded the propaganda in the Russia-Ukraine war, where I gave up on even trying to figure out what was propaganda and what was factual information within a few months.
In Ukraine, the Obama administration created all sorts of chaos by misguided and sloppily carried out policy efforts. The Obama administration kept trying to appease Putin, with Obama even mocking the GOP 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, about his insistence that Russian aggression was a serious threat. Obama won reelection and then Russia invaded Ukraine and seized control of Crimea. Obama refused to send arms to Ukraine and he did not take any stronger US action. Russia occupied Crimea and parts of Ukraine since 2014 and that frozen conflict led to tens of thousands of deaths, as fighting continued in those contested areas. Then in 2022, Putin decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Biden response has been foot-dragging, with big announcements of high-dollar military aid, followed by slow-walking that military aid to Ukraine.
In Israel, the Biden blueprint was crafted by the same Obama foreign policy architects. Trump had cut off aid to Gaza, but Biden immediately started pouring aid to Gaza, which went right into the hands of Hamas. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, was taking a victory lap in a Foreign Affairs piece he wrote, about how their policy had led to a new era of peace in the Mid-East. Then Hamas invaded Israel, as that Foreign Affairs article was already being published in the print version. To spare Sullivan embarrassment, Foreign Affairs allowed Sullivan to edit his piece for the online publication… as if rewriting the article could erase how disastrous and wrong Sullivan’s foreign policy ideas really have been Rewriting an article can’t rewrite history.
The major organization aiding and abetting Palestinian terrorism looks to me like it’s the United Nations. The UN women’s rights mouthpieces refuse to denounce Hamas brutally raping and murdering Israeli women on October 7th. With these Hamas/Israeli hostage exchanges taking place now, the stories of mistreatment of Israeli hostages emerging go well beyond just Hamas. Today there’s a report that a 7 year-old Israeli boy was held captive in Gaza by an UNWRA school teacher in the attic of his home for 50 days, with barely any food to eat. There’s another report of another Israeli child being held hostage by a Gazan doctor, who treated Palestinian children, but refused medical treatment to the Israeli child. That a UN teacher and a Gazan doctor were participating in holding Israeli children captive is appalling.
At the same time this news came of Israeli children’s treatment in captivity, today the White House was hyping all the aid they’re sending to Gaza, which I shared with the X post above.
Where is the outrage about the UN’s role in aiding and abetting terrorism? Where’s the demand for an investigation? The UN is responsible for UNWRA activities in Gaza. Where is the Biden administration on condemning this? The EU and now the Germans have frozen UNWRA funding, but not the Biden administration:
“The wide German support for freezing funds came in light of findings that Palestinian learning materials were used to teach hate, glorify jihad and antisemitism
The German Development Ministry announced its entire aid budget to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) operations in Gaza will continue to be frozen, until further notice, as a result of its internal review of its Palestinian aid portfolio.”
So, far, in the US here’s where things stand: GOP targets Gaza’s biggest relief group, clashing with the White House.
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As it would “appear” (narrative ya reckon?) Ol’ Joe and Mister Jake are so so vested in ceasefires … Why’n the heck doncha reckon they haven’t seemed to look a little south?
https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/saudi-arabias-war-in-yemen/
And then there’s the whole northern third of the continent that’s known as Africa – the Kenyan armed forces have been on alert since 2020 – Shebaab’s never gone away nor, for that matter has … er, Community Outreach [? !!!] programs “hosted” by AQ (Yes Virginia, there’s still AQ) & ISIS.
From Somalia up to Kenya and then clear across the Sahel extending clear across to Mali and points further west and never you mind Libya – on the Med itself Joe, Jake for goodness sake! How’s about y’all take a balanced interest in all this ceasefire business?
Well, JK, sure appears to me that stories about the spread of radical Islamist terrorism put a spoke in the wheel of the Biden Iran deal narrative, as Iran’s actively involved in said spread of Islamist terrorism.
Plus the media, both right and left, do a terrible job covering world news, because their meat and potatoes is the domestic spin war dramas.
“The media … do a terrible job covering world news”
Totally Untrue! would be how the *Establishment Factcheckers would rate that LB.
Leaving aside *their verdict on that particular subject I’d just weigh in with ‘The media do no job at all covering world news.’
But one example of a *Establishment Factchecker’s ‘Self- Evident’
work product: ( lots of the proverbial ‘hemming & hawing’ here, whereas IF another certain individual had said the exact same words in the exact same space:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-get-covid/
I’m not covering for the guy ALL I’m saying is if, “anybody” else had made such an outrageously false claim SNOPES wouldn’t have done a whole page rather, they’d simply gone with a simple two letter verdict:
BS.
Absolutely, and since Biden ran as the COVID Preacher, it’s amazing how much revisionist history is being written by our esteemed legacy media and all their appendages, like the “esteemed fact-checking cadre.”
All my years yammering about the media and political spin word games is now so ridiculously obvious that any sentient person is aware they need hip-waders, when the ol’ Shinole gets this deep.