Here is a classic example of why trust in the media has fallen dramatically since the 1970's. This is what they've been publishing this week, this heartbreaking image of an emaciated child.
And this is what the real story is:
The Truth Behind the Viral Gazan Famine Photo
David Collier says:
"There’s another layer of cynicism here. From everything I’ve learned, Mohammed’s mother is simply trying to find help for her child. She’s not hiding the truth. She tells the full story to anyone who asks. Yet every journalist who has spoken to her has made the same cynical decision: ignore the medical reality, strip the context, and turn her child into a propaganda weapon. No one is trying to help. No one is interested in telling the truth. All they seem to ask is: 'How can this image hurt Israel?' — and they build their coverage around that."
David Collier points out that the image has cropped out his brother who is clearly healthy, and that the mother has never claimed her son was starving but is in need of specialist care for a congenital health problem he's had since birth.
The media cynically ignores her real need for her son and uses her as yet another prop to condemn Israel for trying to eradicate the Hamas terrorists, a story that is completely unrelated to what's going on in this poor family.
The legacy media reporting on the Hamas war with Israel tends to promote Hamas propaganda with little, if any, fact-checking, while carefully scrutinizing and contradicting Israel's claims, usually without supporting evidence.
Most people think that Israel started the war, which illustrates their unconscious bias influenced by the way the media reports the conflict. Hamas has been at war with Israel since before 2006 when they were elected as the political leadership of Gaza. They fired tens of thousands of mortars and rockets at Israeli civilians between 2001 and 2023, before Israel invaded Gaza. Israel responded to their constant attacks by building a rocket defense system.
After the large-scale slaughter of Israelis on October 7, 2023, Israel realized that walls, fences, checkpoints, and rocket defense wasn't enough to protect Israelis. Hamas had to be removed; a campaign that continues until Hamas either surrenders unconditionally or is destroyed.
So far, Hama shows no inclination to surrender. They prefer to use their own Arab civilians as both cannon fodder and propaganda to appeal to Western media and their governments to stop Israel because they know they can't win on their own. They are radical zealots whose founding charter declares their intent to obliterate Israel and replace it with a Muslim Arab government "from the (Jordan) river to the sea." They have never wavered from that goal and refuse to accept the existence of Israel, which is a secular democracy that guarantees all of its Jewish (73%), Arab (21%), and other citizens equal rights. Arabs have far more rights in Israel than they do under Hamas (in Gaza) or Fatah (in the "West Bank"). The reason every proposed "two-state" solution has failed is because Hamas and Fatah refuse to accept them. Israel is happy to live peacefully alongside the Arabs in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria, and has made many unilateral concessions to try to promote peace. Palestinian leadership, however, does not want to live alongside Israel, and Hamas in particular has built a vast terrorism infrastructure to continually attack Israel.
Read the 1988 Hamas Covenant to understand why Hamas has never accepted a "two-state solution" and never will. Pay attention to Article Seven, Article Eleven, and Article Thirteen in particular if you don't want to read the whole thing. Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood from which they derive their principles believe that all of modern Israel is part of an Islamic waqf (an inalienable endowment) declared by Allah in perpetuity for occupation by Muslims under Islamic law. They believe that any claim to that land by anyone other than Muslims—for example, by Israel—violates Allah's endowment and is therefore invalid. Never mind that Jews lived on that land for thousands of years before the religion of Islam emerged in the 7th century AD. The 1988 covenant was updated in 2017 to remove some of the antisemitic language and replaced references to "Jews" with "Zionists" but it hasn't changed the fundamental character of the charter.
The United States of America designated Hamas as a terrorist organization in 1997. The European Union designated the military wing of Hamas as a terrorist organization in 2001 and all of Hamas in 2003. The United Kingdom declared the military wing as a terrorist organization in 2001 and all of Hamas in 2021. Many other countries have also designated Hamas as a terrorist organization but the UN refuses to, despite the well-documented record of thousands of indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, even in so-called "peacetime."
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