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More than a year after the May 2021 war between Gaza-based Iranian proxies and Israel, major U.S. news outlets are still getting the origins of the conflict wrong. This is but one of several takeaways from a Sept. 22, 2022 Washington Post article(āOutside audit says Facebook restricted Palestinian posts during Gaza Warā).
Reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin claimed that the war was āinitially sparked by a conflict over an impending Israeli Supreme Court case involving whether settlers had the right to evict Palestinian families from their homes in a contested neighborhood in Jerusalem.ā As CAMERA has documented, this is entirely false.
The 2021 war was not launched over a property dispute in eastern Jerusalem involving a handful of families. Rather, it was intentionally launched by proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which calls for Israelās destruction. Iran was hoping to use the attacks to exert pressure on Israelās ally, the United States, with whom it has been engaged in negotiations over Tehranās illegal nuclear weapons program. Indeed, Iran has said as much.
On May 6, 2021, the Middle East Media Research Institute translated a speech by Asghar Emami, the head of the Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, which has trained and equipped operatives from Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ, and other terrorist groups. Summarizing his remarks, MEMRI reported that āGeneral Emami explained that Iran can easily tighten its grip around āthe throat of the Zionist regimeā in order to extract pressure and extract concessions from America.ā Emami, MEMRI said, ācontinued to say that while Israel has airplanes that can reach Iran, Iran does not require airplanes to target Israel, it can place Israel āunder siegeā via the artillery and mortar shells of the āresistance axis.āā
Every Gaza-based terrorist group that participated in the conflict is linked to Iran. Some, such as PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad), are fully owned subsidiaries. That Iran helped coordinate their attacks, even reportedly running an operations room out of Lebanon to push disinformation, is now an established fact. It has been well documented in a bevy of literature, including an entire bookāall of it publicly available at the time of the PostāsSeptember 22, 2022 report.
That the worldās leading state sponsor of terrorism would use its terror proxies to launch a war against a state whose destruction is its raison dāetre is unsurprising; it has done so on multiple occasions. Iranās IRGC is known to have trained, funded and equipped the terrorist groups that participated in the conflict. But the Post prefers to parrot the utterly asinine claim that an entire war was started, hundreds of rockets launched, over an eviction dispute in eastern Jerusalem.
The Post continues to echo anti-Israel propaganda, claiming that another contributing factor to the conflict was āIsraeli police storming the al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam.ā But as CAMERA noted at the time, no such thing occurred. In fact, in an act of premeditated violence, Palestinian terrorists rioted at the mosque, using weapons that were preassembled to attack Israelis. Footage available and distributed to press showed hundreds, if not thousands, of large rocks and staging points set up to assault Israelis. Israeli border police responded, breaking up the rioters.
(full article online)
www.camera.org
Reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin claimed that the war was āinitially sparked by a conflict over an impending Israeli Supreme Court case involving whether settlers had the right to evict Palestinian families from their homes in a contested neighborhood in Jerusalem.ā As CAMERA has documented, this is entirely false.
The 2021 war was not launched over a property dispute in eastern Jerusalem involving a handful of families. Rather, it was intentionally launched by proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which calls for Israelās destruction. Iran was hoping to use the attacks to exert pressure on Israelās ally, the United States, with whom it has been engaged in negotiations over Tehranās illegal nuclear weapons program. Indeed, Iran has said as much.
On May 6, 2021, the Middle East Media Research Institute translated a speech by Asghar Emami, the head of the Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, which has trained and equipped operatives from Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ, and other terrorist groups. Summarizing his remarks, MEMRI reported that āGeneral Emami explained that Iran can easily tighten its grip around āthe throat of the Zionist regimeā in order to extract pressure and extract concessions from America.ā Emami, MEMRI said, ācontinued to say that while Israel has airplanes that can reach Iran, Iran does not require airplanes to target Israel, it can place Israel āunder siegeā via the artillery and mortar shells of the āresistance axis.āā
Every Gaza-based terrorist group that participated in the conflict is linked to Iran. Some, such as PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad), are fully owned subsidiaries. That Iran helped coordinate their attacks, even reportedly running an operations room out of Lebanon to push disinformation, is now an established fact. It has been well documented in a bevy of literature, including an entire bookāall of it publicly available at the time of the PostāsSeptember 22, 2022 report.
That the worldās leading state sponsor of terrorism would use its terror proxies to launch a war against a state whose destruction is its raison dāetre is unsurprising; it has done so on multiple occasions. Iranās IRGC is known to have trained, funded and equipped the terrorist groups that participated in the conflict. But the Post prefers to parrot the utterly asinine claim that an entire war was started, hundreds of rockets launched, over an eviction dispute in eastern Jerusalem.
The Post continues to echo anti-Israel propaganda, claiming that another contributing factor to the conflict was āIsraeli police storming the al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam.ā But as CAMERA noted at the time, no such thing occurred. In fact, in an act of premeditated violence, Palestinian terrorists rioted at the mosque, using weapons that were preassembled to attack Israelis. Footage available and distributed to press showed hundreds, if not thousands, of large rocks and staging points set up to assault Israelis. Israeli border police responded, breaking up the rioters.
(full article online)
The Washington Post āLikesā Anti-Israel Propaganda
A recent Washington Post article is replete with errors, both of omission and co-mission. The Post parrots anti-Israel propaganda and fails to provide readers
www.camera.org
