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| WaPo and the Hamas War |
| 2024-04-03 |
| [AmericanThinker] In "How the US and Israel can get back on the same page" (3/31/24), the Washington Post is a broken record in their editorial about how to end the Israel/Hamas war. The most obvious idea - which the Post refuses to offer -- is to put pressure on other actors in the region who could have influence but have been largely sidelined. Instead, the Post is arm-in-arm with the U.S. administration trying to pressure Israel, which was brutally attacked on Oct. 7 and is fighting to liberate the region from the terrorist threat of Hamas. Hamas remains an existential threat to Israel and promises to repeat Oct 7 again and again until it destroys Israel -- not to have a state alongside Israel, as the Post claims in its own delusional way. Despite internecine political struggles, all Israelis agree that Hamas must be defeated. I said it before: anybody who REALLY cares for "Palestinians" would be pressuring Arab countries to reabsorb them. As to "Palestinians cause trouble wherever they go" - don't concentrate them in camps and let UNWRA/PLO run these camps. The Post refuses to demand that Qatar and other Arab countries put pressure on Hamas to surrender, release the hostages, and spare Gazan civilians from this devastating war that Hamas continues to fight. Qatar, which provides a safe haven for billionaire Hamas leaders, would be the logical source to spearhead the end to this conflict. But there is no mention of that in the Post’s solution. Further, why is there no American demand to Egypt to temporarily house the Gazan civilians so Israel can more quickly finish the job of defeating Hamas? This would save Gazan lives, taking them out of harm’s way, removing the ability of Hamas to hide behind their civilians so Israel could defeat Hamas once and for all. And yes, the U.S. has influence over Egypt, giving them billions of dollars in exchange for basically nothing. According to a State Department report, "Since 1978, the United States has contributed more than $50 billion in military assistance." ...The editorial whitewashed this review of the relationship. Biden actually said that Israel was using "indiscriminate force" and its response was "over the top." Schumer acted as if Israel was a colony of America, stating that Israel needed new elections -- exactly the same election interference that Democrats have accused other nations of inflicting on us! Biden’s claim has been refuted analytically numerous times by John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point. Spencer also served for 25 years as an infantry soldier and participated in two tours in Iraq, according to Newsweek Several recent Newsweek articles show that Israel "has created a new standard for urban warfare," that their force is unprecedented in how few casualties have occurred per combatant. But facts don’t seem to matter to the administration and the Post fails to question their errors. The Post is not alone in misrepresenting this conflict. It is no wonder Americans are misinformed on this topic. Thanks to the Post and the legacy media, most Americans don’t know what it means when the Palestinians and their supporters shout "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at their rallies -- it means all of Israel will be destroyed. The river mentioned is the Jordan River, the sea, the Mediterranean Sea. And most Americans don’t know that one of the borders with Gaza is Egypt. If they knew, they would ask the logical question: why isn’t Egypt doing anything? Why doesn’t Egypt take in the Gazans temporarily so they can get out of harm’s way? Why is all the onus on Israel that is fighting an existential threat with Hamas? If the Post wasn’t writing article after article blaming Israel for their method of response to the greatest one-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a response which top experts say is beyond humane, the newspaper would be severely shorter in pages. And then where would they put the advertisements, in an attempt to save their self-imploding paper? |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #3 ^Yassir Arafat was born in Egypt. His family been Egyptian (from time immemorial 😀). His only connection to Falestine is his (Egyptian) uncle appointed Grand Mufti (future Nazi collaborator) by Perfidious Albion. There is a certain naivete to this article. It's a lot easier, and safer, to force Arabs to take in "Palestinians" than to force Israel to commit suicide. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-03 11:29 |
| #2 There is a certain naivete to this article. There is no, repeat no, Arab nation that welcomes Palestinians. They are especially despised in Egypt, and it began during the tenure of Yassir Arafat who spent many years in Egypt when young, and was denied permission to enter when old. |
| Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-04-03 11:14 |
| #1 Leftists are always astonished at how misuse of US influence damages the value of that influence going forward. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-03 07:10 |