New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Etc. Blame Israel for Hamas War Crimes
Triggered: Deceiving Readers With Background Information The media all-too-often attempts to obfuscate what should be clear moral distinctions between annihilationist Palestinian terrorist organizations and the Jewish state, by confusing the root causes of outbreaks of violence and their resulting effects. Consider the headline above produced by The New York Times. To begin with , it effectively blames a fully decontextualized Israeli “raid” on a Muslim holy site for the ensuing military escalation. In reality, Palestinians had — for days on end — been rioting in the eastern part o...