American journalist killed by Israeli military

[Ria_Longhorn]

And why?

Because people want to shut them up.

So when Israel kills a journalist, what does Israel have to hide?

In the fog of war people fall to friendly fire. An errant fire can come from anywhere.

 

[frigidweirdo]

In the fog of war people fall to friendly fire. An errant fire can come from anywhere.

It can.
And in the fog of war people will take advantage of a situation they know can be seen in different ways

 

[P F Tinmore]

 

[Sixties Fan]

And your evidence of Israel having killed her is nil, as always.

Keep inciting the other fools like you. Some of them are intent in killing Jews.

Thank you for your contribution to Jewish deaths.

 

[rylah]

Talk about cultural appropriation...

 

[Sixties Fan]

Which brings us to how this entire incident is emblematic of the Arab-Israeli conflict itself, and how the media typically covers it (as well as how antisemitism, as explained by Natan Sharansky’s “Three-D’s” creeps into almost every controversy involving Israel).

To distinguish between ordinary criticism — to which every country and government should be subject — and the all-too-common criticism of Israel grounded in anti-Semitism, human rights activist, Soviet dissident and all-around hero, Natan Sharansky, developed his famous “3-D test” (Demonization, Delegitimization and Double Standards).

First, let’s look at demonization. Every time Israel responds to attacks on Israelis, it is always the response that gets the bulk of the reporting; and often to the exclusion of even reporting on why Israel was deploying its military in the first place.

That happens when Hamas rains hundreds of rockets on Israeli civilians before Israel’s military even begins to respond. It happened during the Second Intifada, when after months of Israelis being massacred in suicide bomb attacks in restaurants, supermarkets, buses, hotels, etc., the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield to go after the terrorist infrastructure in Judea & Samaria. It even happens when most mainstream international media reports on Israeli checkpoints and fences. They act like all of these responses to brutal terrorism were just actions Israel undertook for fun. For kicks. And not because since 2000, nearly 1400 Israelis have been killed by terrorists (the equivalent of 53,000 Americans).

The same thing happened with the reporting on the death of Abu Akleh. A Google search for news articles about “Abu Akleh” two days after her death had “about 14,100,000 results.” Almost none of those articles even implicitly reference the reason the IDF was in Jenin and in a shootout with Islamic Jihad terrorists on May 11th; namely, the 19 Israelis murdered in cold blood by Islamist supremacist terrorists in the past 45 days.

By the same token, a Google search for news articles about the “Dizengoff terrorist attack” (which sadly encompasses more attacks the recent March 8, 2022 machine gun attack by a Jenin resident who murdered 3 people and injured 12 at a bar in Tel Aviv) produced only “about 55,300 results” or less than a quarter of 1%. And sadly, there have been at least 4 different “Dizengoff terrorist attacks” since 1994 that are included in those results. So the latest mass murder terrorist attack by a Jenin resident in Tel Aviv, shooting over a dozen people in a bar, didn’t even generate a quarter of 1% of the news articles generated by the likely accidental shooting of Abu Akleh.

All this translates to the average news consumer only knowing about the response (the effect) and not the cause. This means that for the average news consumer, all they are reading about or seeing is the firemen taking an ax to a door – they have no idea that the firemen are responding to a fire.

This leads demonization leads to delegitimization. After all, if Israeli soldiers, without any context or apparent cause are going into places like Jenin “gun blazing,” then why not accuse them of “murder” without any evidence – asIlhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and many international media outlets did within minutes of Abu Akleh’s death, and before there was even a hint of an investigation (let alone an impartial one using actual forensics). And if you believe Israel is just attacking people without reason, because you never read about bombs being blown up on Israeli buses, the thousands of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, or the string of mass-murder attacks directed by terrorist groups in Jenin, then you may be quick to conclude those Jews and their Jewish state are just too evil to exist anymore.

Lastly, we have the infamous double standard, which as Sharansky has pointed out, gets all too often applied to Israel. Regarding the death of Abu Akleh that double standard is also made evident by some simple Google searches.

In the past 5 years about 400 journalists have been killed covering conflict zones. None have generated a fraction of the media and social media attention that Abu Akleh’s death has generated in barely 2 days.

(full article online)

The Three Ds and the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

It is painfully clear to anyone paying attention how much of the mainstream media, social media, and those who wish to destroy Israel are using the death of Abu Akleh to attack Israel.

jewishjournal.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[P F Tinmore]

Rockets out of Gaza is the middle of the story.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Which brings us to how this entire incident is emblematic of the Arab-Israeli conflict itself, and how the media typically covers it (as well as how antisemitism, as explained by Natan Sharansky’s “Three-D’s” creeps into almost every controversy involving Israel).

To distinguish between ordinary criticism — to which every country and government should be subject — and the all-too-common criticism of Israel grounded in anti-Semitism, human rights activist, Soviet dissident and all-around hero, Natan Sharansky, developed his famous “3-D test” (Demonization, Delegitimization and Double Standards).

First, let’s look at demonization. Every time Israel responds to attacks on Israelis, it is always the response that gets the bulk of the reporting; and often to the exclusion of even reporting on why Israel was deploying its military in the first place.

That happens when Hamas rains hundreds of rockets on Israeli civilians before Israel’s military even begins to respond. It happened during the Second Intifada, when after months of Israelis being massacred in suicide bomb attacks in restaurants, supermarkets, buses, hotels, etc., the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield to go after the terrorist infrastructure in Judea & Samaria. It even happens when most mainstream international media reports on Israeli checkpoints and fences. They act like all of these responses to brutal terrorism were just actions Israel undertook for fun. For kicks. And not because since 2000, nearly 1400 Israelis have been killed by terrorists (the equivalent of 53,000 Americans).

The same thing happened with the reporting on the death of Abu Akleh. A Google search for news articles about “Abu Akleh” two days after her death had “about 14,100,000 results.” Almost none of those articles even implicitly reference the reason the IDF was in Jenin and in a shootout with Islamic Jihad terrorists on May 11th; namely, the 19 Israelis murdered in cold blood by Islamist supremacist terrorists in the past 45 days.

By the same token, a Google search for news articles about the “Dizengoff terrorist attack” (which sadly encompasses more attacks the recent March 8, 2022 machine gun attack by a Jenin resident who murdered 3 people and injured 12 at a bar in Tel Aviv) produced only “about 55,300 results” or less than a quarter of 1%. And sadly, there have been at least 4 different “Dizengoff terrorist attacks” since 1994 that are included in those results. So the latest mass murder terrorist attack by a Jenin resident in Tel Aviv, shooting over a dozen people in a bar, didn’t even generate a quarter of 1% of the news articles generated by the likely accidental shooting of Abu Akleh.

All this translates to the average news consumer only knowing about the response (the effect) and not the cause. This means that for the average news consumer, all they are reading about or seeing is the firemen taking an ax to a door – they have no idea that the firemen are responding to a fire.

This leads demonization leads to delegitimization. After all, if Israeli soldiers, without any context or apparent cause are going into places like Jenin “gun blazing,” then why not accuse them of “murder” without any evidence – asIlhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and many international media outlets did within minutes of Abu Akleh’s death, and before there was even a hint of an investigation (let alone an impartial one using actual forensics). And if you believe Israel is just attacking people without reason, because you never read about bombs being blown up on Israeli buses, the thousands of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, or the string of mass-murder attacks directed by terrorist groups in Jenin, then you may be quick to conclude those Jews and their Jewish state are just too evil to exist anymore.

Lastly, we have the infamous double standard, which as Sharansky has pointed out, gets all too often applied to Israel. Regarding the death of Abu Akleh that double standard is also made evident by some simple Google searches.

In the past 5 years about 400 journalists have been killed covering conflict zones. None have generated a fraction of the media and social media attention that Abu Akleh’s death has generated in barely 2 days.

(full article online)

The Three Ds and the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

It is painfully clear to anyone paying attention how much of the mainstream media, social media, and those who wish to destroy Israel are using the death of Abu Akleh to attack Israel.

jewishjournal.com

WOW, all of those Israeli talking points.


Not to mention playing all of those antisemite and terrorist cards

 

[Sixties Fan]

WOW, all of those Israeli talking points.


Not to mention playing all of those antisemite and terrorist cards

That is because they are Jew haters and those attacking Jews are terrorists.

Keep applauding, Mr. Jew hater. You are an endless joke of Christian learned Jew hatred.

 

[P F Tinmore]

That is because they are Jew haters and those attacking Jews are terrorists.

Keep applauding, Mr. Jew hater. You are an endless joke of Christian learned Jew hatred.

You are a hoot.

 

[Sixties Fan]

You are a hoot.

You are a pathetic Jew hater who keeps wasting your time wanting to see Jews destroyed.

 

[rylah]

WOW, all of those Israeli talking points.


Not to mention playing all of those antisemite and terrorist cards

But why admit your inability to refute any?

 

[rylah]

You are a hoot.

Emojis and ad hominems
compensate for a lack of evidence?

 

[rylah]

Rockets out of Gaza is the middle of the story.

Arab supremacists calling Islamism a story
doesn't make a humiliating defeat any less deserved...

 

[P F Tinmore]

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[P F Tinmore]

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[P F Tinmore]

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[P F Tinmore]

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