Media Runs, Trips, and Falls with Hamas Propaganda

A disturbing Left-wing media narrative has infected coverage of the war against Israel launched Oct. 7 by bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists. The barbarous attacks on Israel haven’t stopped media bias from indirectly doing the bidding of Hamas by trying to make Israel look like the villain in a war it didn’t start.

There have been many shocking revelations since the terrorist attack on Israel, and many are lessons for us right here at home. The moment of an explosion Tuesday at a Gaza hospital immediately served as an opportunity for legacy media to turn and accuse Israel of the heinous act. And from whom did they get this information? The Hamas “Health Ministry” in Gaza. For too many in American media, that was enough. The equivalent would be credulously believing a Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer explanation that some other nefarious group was responsible for all those dead bodies.  

Simply put: Hamas terrorists falsely claimed Israel had bombed the Al-Ahli Hospital and killed 500 people. Sympathetic journalists initially swallowed the terrorist lie and reported it around the world. NewsNation anchor Dan Abrams criticized the media for not waiting to hear from Israel, noting that “as news of the explosion broke, there was a disturbing rush to judgment by mainstream news outlets, including the AP [Associated Press], New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, all immediately taking a statement by the Hamas terrorist-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip, putting the blame squarely on an Israeli airstrike.” For example, The New York Times reported in a headline: “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.” A headline on the CNN website said: “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.” The BBC reported: “Hundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli airstrike on hospital in Gaza, Palestinian officials say.”

As they perpetuated the fake news of a terrorist group know for pathologically lying about everything, someone at least thought they should throw in a ‘journalism’ wink-and-nod with “Palestinians say.” The reports, in fact, look like templates, as though they’re stenographers. With the media giving them an alibi,  certain world leaders then jumped on the Israel-bashing bandwagon.

Israel took a few hours to investigate and then presented voluminous and incontrovertible evidence that the explosion was caused by a malfunctioning rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller terrorist group allied with Hamas.

The U.S. Defense Department did its own investigation and also found that Israel was not responsible for the strike. President Biden endorsed this view on his visit to Israel on Wednesday. In fact, evidence now shows the failed Islamic Jihad missile fell into a parking lot, damaging a part of the hospital but not destroying. There were likely civilian deaths but apparently much to the chagrin of Hamas, a massive tragedy was avoided. As the Israeli Defense Forces were in fact being strategic about their response to Hamas, these monsters decided this was the opportunity to create one, perhaps knowing worldwide legacy media, run by the left, would assist them without asking questions.

If legacy media was even remotely interested in the truth as opposed to servicing propaganda they would have waited a few hours for the results of actual investigations. The Israel Defense Forces released a recording of an intercepted conversation between two Islamic Jihad terrorists who admitted their group launched the rocket that hit near the hospital. U.S. officials said infrared satellite data showed a rocket fired from a cemetery inside Gaza landed in the hospital parking lot.

As usual, the Palestinian terrorists fired from an area packed with civilians, using them as human shields — an action classified as a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Mosques, schools, hospitals and high-rise apartment buildings serve as rocket launching pads for Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, The Times of Israel reported that “Media outlets in the Arab world have almost unanimously attributed the disaster [at the hospital in Gaza] … to an Israeli airstrike.”

The terrorist propaganda spread by the media turned the tragedy of the hospital attack into a victory for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have no regard for any human life and use the deaths of Gazans to cynically generate sympathy around the world. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against Israel and its ally the U.S. in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Turkey, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia and elsewhere Tuesday and Wednesday. Some protests turned into riots that had to be broken up by police as crowds blamed Israel for the hospital attack and chanted “Death to Israel.”

Moves by Saudi Arabia to pave the way for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel have been abandoned.

In another victory for Israel’s enemies, a summit meeting scheduled for Wednesday in Jordan between Biden and the leaders of that nation, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority was canceled by the Arabs because of their outrage at the supposed Israeli attack on the hospital.

The ultimate goal of Hamas is to establish Muslim control of the entire world. Mahmoud al-Zahar, the Hamas co-founder, said in a 2022 video: “We are not talking about liberating our land alone. … The entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a system] where there is no injustice, no oppression, no Zionism, no treacherous Christianity.”

The above facts about Hamas and Islamic Jihad rarely get covered outside conservative media. It’s time for the liberal media to expose the terrorist groups for what they are — the latest in a long line of Jew-hating murderers stretching from ancient times to the Nazis to today’s Iran-supported psychopathic terrorist groups.

The people of America, Israel, and the world deserve the truth and a media with enough decency and discipline to at least refrain from spreading terrorist propaganda. If that’s asking too much, we’re in a heap of trouble.