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Two of the Israeli hostages are rescued in a complex and daring operation; plus AP coverage of the event — 26 Comments

  1. Miracles do sometimes happen.

    “Minors” is a legal term. What does it mean? Shouldn’t they define it?

    Obviously yes. So obvious, in fact, that it is impossible for me to believe even leftists don’t see the bias. My guess is that they do, but somehow convince themselves that it’s right, and just, and all together fine.

    Headline over at Reuters: “Israel frees two hostages, Palestinian TV says 74 killed in assault”

    No reason to link to it. You know what it says.

  2. I don’t trust AP reporting on just about anything these days. The blind acceptance of Hamas casualty statistics is so unprofessional as to make it an error to call the AP “journalists” rather than “propagandists.” Just UNRWA workers aren’t really relief workers.

  3. neo, you gave the AP name away; According to Palestinians (AP) its much more accurate than just All Propaganda (AP).

  4. The Hamas control center under the UNWRA got its electricty from lines directly from the UN.
    So good news! We are paying for power used by the UN and Hamas.

    I have just subscribed to Times of Israel so I can get away from all AP propaganda.

    Most of us are clueless about “news” management here in the land of the formerly free. The NYT is a publicly traded stock. It owns several thousand USA small town papers, which get their input from Mama. Gannett, through USA Today, is similar. And we wonder how Democrats win elections???

  5. Re: AP coverage and journalism in general

    Quelle horreur!

    –“Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event? | The New Yorker”
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event

    One can only hope.

    Somehow “The New Yorker” manages to consider all the structural problems facing old stodgy print media versus new online digital media without once considering the many, many times the media has been caught lying or obfuscating in the service of Democrats, while attacking and alienating the other half of the country.

    As they say, corn popped.

  6. Barry-
    Wiki says, “Associated Press (AP)[4] is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters.”
    It is much more centralized than Pravda. It produces news! which are spread over the land.

  7. Kate–

    Back, forty years ago, before computers came in, when I used to do research in a government think tank, we used to have teletypes connected to the various wire and other services–stock market prices, the AP, Reuters, Jiji Shimpo, etc.–running full blast, printing out paper rolls of news, and we “knew” that the AP would always give us the straight scoop, “just the (unembellished) facts”–I suppose that we were probably deluded even that far back.

  8. Thanks C. (of course, that should be “…produces ‘news’ reports…”.)

    Just a caveat, though, WRT The “Times of Israel” (not related as far AFAIK to the NYT): it offers a range of opinions and some fascinating articles but is essentially a left-of-center publication. If it appears that they’ve shifted rightward (or slightly rightward) it’s because of Oct. 7 and also because, with some exceptions, they’re NOT totally off the wall.
    They’re entitled to their opinions, certainly, but take their stance on Bibi with a grain of salt…
    YMMV…

    + Bonus
    So what’s the high/low that the AP will publish something like this??(!)
    “‘Why Doesn’t Hamas Go to Hell and Hide There?’: Other Voices from Gaza”—
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20383/voices-from-gaza
    (Just kidding, of course…)

  9. And who knows? Maybe even Honest A. might learn something…
    (Sorry, just another joke… can’t help it…it seems…)
    “The Evidence Iran Was Behind the 7 October Pogrom in Israel”—
    https://www.kyleorton.com/p/iran-was-behind-the-oct-7-pogrom-in-israel
    H/T Powerline blog.
    Key grafs:
    “…Even for those who interpret the thirty-odd-year relationship between Iran and HAMAS as some sort of loose patron-client arrangement where HAMAS has genuine independence of action, no serious person can believe HAMAS said nothing to Tehran as it worked for a year or more—with Iran’s money, weapons, and IRGC trainers—to plan the most audacious operation in its history, one with direct and potentially dire consequences for the Iranian regime. This is not how anything works.
    “It becomes more preposterous when one zooms in….”
    [Emphasis mine; Barry M.—though “…with Iran’s money…” should be corrected to read “…with America’s money…”; to be sure, it would be FAR MORE ACCURATE to amend that to, “…with “Biden”‘s money…”.]

  10. And of course, Hamas could stop all of this at any time by releasing the (innocent civilian) Israeli hostages. Note that both the rescued hostages are family members of Mia Leimberg, the intrepid teenager who brought her dog into, and out of, Hamas captivity with her.

  11. Should never have publicized the details of this rescue.
    But they had to.
    They had to because the insane Left has been insisting that Bibi doesn’t give a F&*K about the hostages.
    (Nor will they stop insisting on it)

    And so the other hostages can pretty much kiss their own slim chances good-bye….
    (But let’s hope I’m entirely wrong about this last bit….)
    – – – – – – – – –
    “…Hamas could stop all of this at any time…”
    Except that they can’t.
    They can’t because that is WHO THEY ARE.
    (One keeps forgetting this basic elementary detail.)
    That one WANTS to forget this is perfectly understandable.
    But it’s a fatal mistake, as was demonstrated on October 7.

  12. Discovery in the Hamas tunnels: During a military operation in Khan Yunis about two weeks ago, IDF soldiers managed to film a video of Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, walking inside a strategic Hamas tunnel, accompanied by his wife and children. Another person was seen leading them through the tunnel.

    The IDF currently decided not to publish the video, indicating that he had apparently been in Khan Yunis in recent days.

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385150

    Interesting, no? The evident IDF penetration of the tunnel systems, it’s efficacy, the techniques and capabilties are only vaguely apparent to us outside observers, just as we may hope they are equally murky to Hamas. More, I for one hope that advantage will be preserved for many years to come, though the full story prove as astonishing as the daily results hint to date.

  13. If I was an Israeli and saw what those animals did in their attack, I would want to turn Gaza into a parking lot. The thing that the people of the West never get is that this behavior is NOTHING NEW. History is rife with examples. Against infidels anything, anything can be done with Allah’s blessing.

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