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News Not Fit To Print
Oprah would have loved this one, one would think.
If the governments of Israel and Jordan joined forces to save the life of a three-year old Palestinian child — and if the three-year old child happened to be the daughter of a top Hamas official — that would be big news, right? It would be covered by all the major American newspapers, right? Oprah might even talk about it, right?
If you answered “right” to any of the above, dear reader, you are living on another planet.
Here is a brief summary of the story, as reported in the April 27 issue of the Hebrew-language weekly, Sha’ar LaMathil:
The young daughter of Fathi Hamad, one of the heads of Hamas and its government in the Gaza Strip, was in urgent need of medical attention in a Jordanian hospital. King Abdallah of Jordan requested the Prime Minister and Defense Minister to facilitate the girl’s transfer to a hospital in Amman.
Israel acceded to the request. A Red Cross ambulance transferred the girl from a hospital in Gaza to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, and from there a Jordanian helicopter transferred her to Amman. The heads of Hamas ordered all the Gaza Strip media not to publish the story.
This is just a bare-bones version of what happened. A more detailed account might have mentioned that the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon was a frequent target of Hamas rocket attacks; that the child received emergency medical treatment at Barzilai Hospital to stabilize her condition before being flown on to Amman; that she is just one of hundreds of Gazans who receive medical care in Israel; that her father, Hamas’ Interior Minister and a leading advocate of suicide bombing, publicly thanked King Abdallah, but omitted any mention of Israel; and that the Jordanian press also left out Israel’s role. But let’s not get bogged down in petty details.
Here is how much coverage the story received in the American mainstream media:
Whether because of self-preservation (journalists who seriously annoy Hamas tend to have short life-spans), bias (the press likes to cover Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians; anything else is off-message), or sheer incompetence, our media has joined the Palestinian media in blacking out a most interesting story. A pity.
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Grant| 5.3.10 @ 7:00AM
The Ashkelon part certainly rings true!
Ashkelon is a gem on the Mediterranean, very civilized, great beaches, relatively uncrowded, and convenient to the wondrous Negev.
Alan Brooks| 5.3.10 @ 9:52PM
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1) Place a shark into a swimming pool.
2) Throw Ahmadinejad in the pool.
Faffnir| 5.3.10 @ 7:48AM
"Israel will have peace only when Arabs love their children more than they hate Jews." Golda Mier
Shalom.
AmenBro| 5.3.10 @ 12:29PM
Mier, Menachem,& Sadat realized this.
Apostate JIMMAH,,, bitter souls he is renounced his only claim to significance as a selfless human.
May we pray that the sacrifices of Menachem, Meir, and Sadat are not wasted by scoundrels who worship at the same pulpit as CARTER.
GOD BLESS you SIR
Alan Brooks| 5.3.10 @ 9:54PM
Carter, ugh, please; don't mention his name.
we are still digesting our dinners in this time zone.
ferengi| 5.3.10 @ 1:53PM
"Israel will have peace only when Arabs love their children more than they hate Jews." Golda Mier
WELL SAID!!
Maddox| 5.3.10 @ 11:35AM
I recently read a piece about journalists here who go off talking points from the Obama Regime. They receive nasty emails and phone calls. They are deemed outcasts at press events.
We are joining the third world and the press is guilty of helping to take us there. They just never thought they would be included in the trip.
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JJ| 5.3.10 @ 12:06PM
I'm just reading this article because my supreme leader told everyone to be civil. He says I should read Huffington Post and American Spectator, watch CNN and Fox News, get liberal and conservative points of view.
I love his sermons.
Gr0w1er| 5.3.10 @ 1:48PM
As an undergraduate at the University of Colorado (yes, in Boulder, CO of all places), The distinct feeling was that Israel could do no wrong in the eyes of the Left. Back then the Arabs, particularly Palestinians, were the bad guys. I wonder what all my Jewish friends think about it now. Ironic.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 1:51PM
JJ,
I detest his "sermons".
I refuse to be "civil" to enemies of our constitution. (Shut up Toddard and Red). I refuse to be civil to them either, because they are simply retreating cowards.
The "One Nation Under God"...is the last hope for mankind until the ONLY MESSIAH comes in power and glory, and brings down the curtain on human kind on this earth.
Have I missed something?
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 5.3.10 @ 2:05PM
From one Ken to another, very well put. Watch now for the "conservative" atheists to come on here & admonish you for mentioning The Almighty I AM. God bless Ken!
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.3.10 @ 2:16PM
Kenneth E,
Thank you.
Notice the flag on the ramparts of Jerusalem.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeALTHQQAWo
Kenneth E.MacAlister Jr.| 5.3.10 @ 2:52PM
Ken, thank you much for sharing that. Very beautiful! GOD bless!
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