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  1. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, recently announced it was organizing a team to assassinate every Hamas terrorist involved with the Black Saturday attacks. Given Hamas’ penchant for livestreaming their atrocities, they’ll have lots of information to go on. “As your sword has bereaved women, So shall your mother be bereaved among women,” said Samuel to the king of the Amalekites before slaying him. And there will be many bereaved mothers of Hamas terrorists soon.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/dogs-war-israel-hamas-antonio-garcia-martinez

    The photojounos of Hamas will be found. It will be unwise for anyone not involved to stand anywhere near such a one, even for a moment.

  2. Honestly it was never conscionable, and it is horrifying that it has taken so long. I’m of the opinion that those guilty need to be identified as terrorists if not traitors liable to summary execution (which is a problem since not even armed terrorists caught red handed are really subject to such). Which is one reason why I’ve honestly been in favor of treating Al Jazeera as a terrorist entity whose agents and stringers are liable to be shot on sight.

    Since it’s obvious many modern “reporters” and “journalists” do not feel any higher duty or calling pushing them to act, there needs to be other measures for it. Such as stricter libel laws and draconian punishments for people acting like Mike Wallace. I’ve been of the opinion that some examples need to be made for a long time. Especially since let’s not doubt that these things can be deadly. Goebbels is one of the most infamous people in history for a reason, and propaganda for totalitarianism, genocide, and terrorism has been found legally liable in cases like the Rwandan Genocide tribunals.

  3. “Ogletree pushed Wallace. Didn’t [he and] Jennings have some higher duty, either patriotic or human, to do something other than just roll film as soldiers from his own country were being shot? “No,” Wallace said flatly and immediately. “You don’t have a higher duty. No. No. You’re a reporter!”

    “Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

  4. @Geoffrey Britain

    Exactly. It would be hard to get stick (one downside of the lacks of Declarations of War) but it’d be good. And I’ve become convinced people like Jennings and Wallace need to have more “tragic accidents” happen to them. Especially in warzones where the lines are blurred.

  5. a small subset of this, terry anderson’s unhinged daughter, salome, wrote a memoir where she seemed to trust her father’s hezbollah captures, to Mossad, because reasons,

  6. I have talked about this for forty years! When I spent my junior year on Israel, I met a ton of foreign journalists. I found a great bar in Jerusalem near an office building that housed many, many news agencies’ offices. From hanging out there, I learned that:
    Few of the “journalists” knew any Hebrew and almost none knew Arabic.
    They rarely got off their a**es to cover anything, preferring the comfort and safety of that bar in Jerusalem.
    They relied VERY HEAVILY on local stringers, almost all of whom were Arab, and most of whom were also on the payroll of the PLO (or one of its affiliates. Now, they might also be on the payroll of Hamas or Hezbollah, or the PA)

    For years, people just kind of nodded in response to me saying this, “Uh huh, sure, r-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght…” It was as of people didn’t believe me, or thought it just didn’t matter.

    Truth is out there now.

  7. Time Magazine, with the help of a Baathist stringer, faked up the Haditha massacre. The Marines, to their shame, treated the accused horribly for some time. Not heard there was an apology from Time or from the USMC to their guys.

  8. They rarely got off their a**es to cover anything, preferring the comfort and safety of that bar in Jerusalem.
    They relied VERY HEAVILY on local stringers,

    –Someone Else

    Hunter S. Thompson, the gonzo 60s/70s journalist, is an understandably tough sell for conservatives.

    But he never portrayed his fellow journalists as much beyond hacks hanging out in comfortable bars and passing on whatever their stringers reported as Final Wisdom.

  9. The NYP demonstrating why it is currently the nation’s “paper of record” (to be fair, the NYT has been in the toilet for a long time now, and the WaPo is a joke; only the Babylon Bee is giving the NYP a run for its money…):

    “What’s really at the root of anti-Jewish hate on college campuses”—
    https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/whats-really-at-the-root-of-anti-jewish-hate-on-college-campuses/

    “The week in whoppers: Barack Obama justifies terror, the NYT slurs US, Israel and more”—
    https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/the-week-in-whoppers-barack-obama-justifies-terror-the-nyt-slurs-us-israel-and-more/
    “Antisemitic hate crimes soar, exposing lunacy of Biden team’s lectures on Islamophobia”—
    https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/antisemitic-hate-crimes-soar-exposing-lunacy-of-biden-teams-lectures-on-islamophobia/

  10. When I read of this I also thought of that old, Mike Wallace interview.
    What an awful philosophy! I hope, if Mr. Wallace actually found himself in such a situation, he would act differently. Sometimes we hold extreme beliefs at a philosophical level that don’t dictate how we act in the real world.

    Imagine a photographer at a house fire. A mother sees him from a window and drops her baby towards him. The photographer snaps a photo of the baby hitting the ground, or the photographer drops his camera and catches the baby? I think 99.99% of us drop the camera.

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