Democracy is dead (Hamas killed it)
I canceled my subscription to The Washington Post, Hamas' propaganda bullhorn in America.
I finally canceled my subscription to The Washington Post. For years, the Post has been a faithful bullhorn for pro-Palestinian takes on Israel’s frequent clashes with vicious terrorists. The last six months has been a daily struggle for me, as I’ve been a subscriber for years, and I appreciate much of the paper’s coverage on politics, and its dogged—if overdramatic—takes on the former president. But now they’ve crossed a line I can no longer tolerate. So goodbye and good riddance, with the additional small victory lap of me telling anyone who will listen to do what I did and consign WaPo to the dustbin of failed publications.
The Post’s coverage of the recent IDF rescue of four hostages held in the Gaza neighborhood of Nuseirat, at a doctor’s house, crossed over and fled the line from decent reporting to Pravda on the Jordan. The IDF operation was complex, and involved special forces, which frequently infiltrate enemy positions by appearing as locals.
Every word of the Post’s report dripped with one-sided derision for the plight of the hostages who were brutally taken from their lives simply because they were convenient—and helpless—targets for the animals who slaughtered, raped, and tortured Israeli civilians for hours on October 7, 2023.
The rescue operation on Saturday that freed four Israeli hostages and killed more than 270 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, was one of the most dramatic and deadly episodes of Israel’s war against Hamas.
Carefully, the report took readers through weeks of preparation for the raid, mixed with accounts of the event itself taken without even a hint of doubt from Palestinians who were at the scene. The IDF was portrayed in its worst light—that somehow (without saying how) secrecy was breached and the element of surprise lost.
Somehow, those civilians who were, to WaPo and their fellow travelers, innocent bystanders, came into possession of machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Online, and within the echo chamber that encompasses journalism from Columbia University’s classrooms to the platform formerly known as Twitter, the same heinous, ignorant, and ghoulish opinions got traction. There are literally too many to count.
Thank you to my friend Philip Swicegood (Erick Erickson’s right hand man) for calling out the evil.
Krystal is either dumb or evil. She elevates this comparison while knowing that Israel didn’t invade, kill and rape 1300 Palestinians while taking a few hundred hostage and hide them among civilians. Meanwhile, Gaza’s elected leadership did.
Certainly, there were some true civilians in the area when the IDF executed their plan. Hamas would ensure there were, and it would make sense that the location of the hostages would not be public. But many of the civilians were not civilians at all. They were terrorists going about their daily business, dressed as civilians so they can melt away into the crowds after killing Israelis.
One report by the New York Times stood out to me. Hamas paid families to hold hostages in their homes.
Some Hamas defenders attacked the IDF for having its commandos dressed as civilians to effect this rescue. It’s nonsense, and the account AGHamilton29 explained “how these clowns have made guiding principles into a joke by selectively and dishonestly applying them.”
This is beyond applying a double-standard. It’s dishonest.
The residents of Gaza elected Hamas as their government in 2006, after Israel unilaterally withdrew all its forces and Israeli citizens (at gunpoint) from Gaza. Hamas has never held another election. It has ruled by fiat, by terror, both inside and outside Gaza’s borders. Reporters who did not report what Hamas wanted were accused of aiding Israel, and left with their lives threatened. Some reporters who stayed were members of Hamas. Hamas stole most of the international aid flowing to Gaza, to buy weapons and dig tunnels. It commandeered food and materiel sent by NGOs and intended to feed Gazan civilians, stockpiling it for its fighters.
Hamas charged a 20% smuggling tax on goods coming in to Gaza through tunnels to Egypt, which Israel has now begun dismantling, after years of the corrupt Egyptian military denying their existence (while the Egyptians were taking bribes and a cut of the illegal smuggling money). Hamas’ political leaders lived (and continue to live) in luxury in Doha, Qatar, just miles from 11,000 U.S. troops. Their lifestyle is funded by the Qataris and by the illegal trade into Gaza.
For a year or more, Hamas, with the help and explicit approval of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, planned the bloody events of October 7th, lulling Israel into a false sense of security, and striking when Israelis were consumed with their own political strife.
The Israeli government’s fragile wartime coalition is in danger, as Benny Gantz resigned from the emergency wartime security cabinet, laying the blame on Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanyahu for “preventing us from moving forward to a real victory.” While Israelis wrestle with their future, and mute their celebrations of the rescue of four to hope for the release of the 100-plus more, you can almost hear the cheering from the corner where the Washington Post lurks, that Israel might fail.
Meanwhile, this same cheering section mocked the captivity of Noa Argamani, who was kept as a slave to clean and wash dishes for a wealthy Gazan family. She was one of the lucky ones who weren’t taken deep into tunnels and killed. They made fun of her because she had it “easy.” But Hamas was willing to spill her blood, and kill IDF members who came to rescue her. It was a miracle the Israelis were able to pull it off. It was a tragedy that an Israeli soldier, Arnon Zamora, was killed saving Noa.
But scrolling through the Twitter results to find Zamora’s name, results focused on the number of Palestinians killed in the raid. How quickly the ghouls forget who was ripping down the pictures of the hostages from light poles and building walls last year.
The ghouls say this is proof how little Palestinian life is valued by Israelis compared to Israeli lives. What rubbish! It’s the opposite: Palestinians value their own civilian lives so little that they surround hostages, prepared to step into the battle with the IDF in order to kill Jews. When the Jews win with only one casualty to their taking 274 of their own, they blame the Jews, as if Israel is supposed to send in civilians to get the hostages.
If Democracy Dies in Darkness, it’s been dead in Gaza for 20 years. And the ghouls at WaPo have been propping up its vicious zombie body for too long. That goes for Reuters, too, but I don’t pay anything for Reuters.
I can no longer balance the value of my subscription to one of these ghoul publications against the intentional deception, bad faith, and literal defense of evil by The Washington Post. I hope all decent people who have handed them any money will do the same and put them out of business.
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I could not agree more. I cancelled my subscription several years ago for their blatantly biased reporting of several different issues and in my view they have only gone downhill since. I'm sure you will find much better ways to spend your money.
The truth is that everything is a rich man's trick: The British-American Empire invaded / took over Palestine and planted it with Jews in the years leading up to and after 1948.
We had the same thing happen here in Ireland, the British empire invaded stole our country starting back in 1169 and later planted it with Prodestants from England and Scotland who were given free land (our land) thus ruling/ enslaving us, centuries later they still rule Northern Ireland. By 1948 Zionist terrorists from Europe led by Ben Gurion (from Poland) had invaded Palestine and murdered millions of Palestinians and stolen their land (Nakba) and renamed Palestine 'Israel'. So its like a stolen vehicle with a false registration 'I-S-R-A-E-L':
The great Miko Pelo (author of The Generals Son) tried to educate new born Jews for decades but so far failed.
Watch Aaron Russo's documentary "America: Freedom to Fascism" Get schooled up ...Excerpt -"In 1913 America was a free country. Then a band of powerful bankers achieved their fathers’ and grandfathers’ goal and America has never been the same. Woodrow Wilson was our President at the time. This band of banksters bribed senators to pass the Federal Reserve Act. The Act was passed on Christmas Eve (as many senators were with their families) and it was done without the required constitutional amendment. This is how the Federal Reserve Act came into being. These Banksters understood: whoever issued the money for America would control the Government. Our Government gave these Banksters their most important power, and now had to borrow money from them and pay interest to finance our Government. This was the most diabolical fraud ever perpetuated on the American people”]
2) Watch / study Bill Stills ;The Money Masters'. Excerpt as follows -"The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned “central” bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.
The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton’s mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank….sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
Several short-lived attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United States were defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Lincoln. But with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, America was firmly lashed to the same yoke, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses a yoke little better than slavery itself. That yoke inevitably grows heavier with ever-compounding interest, and totals over $20 trillion of debt owed by the American people today ($80,000 per American) ultimately to these bankers. This vast accumulation of wealth concentrates immense power and despotic economic domination in the hands of the few central bankers “who are able to govern credit and its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their will.” ]