The NY Times: eyeless in Gaza
Today’s NY Times article about the Hamas takeover of Gaza misses an awful lot.
The situation: in a brutal power play, the Islamic terrorists of Hamas violently take over total control of Gaza—one of the most torn and dysfunctional welfare state on earth—from the previous “unity” government. The Iranian-backed Hamas’s raison d’etre is power, terror, and the destruction of Israel, plus an agenda to install a more fundamentalist version of the Muslim religion to the Palestinians who live there and who previously had remained relatively secular and worldly.
Right now it all seems a disaster for the Palestinian people, Israel, Egypt, the West, the “peace process” (or what’s left of it; in my opinion, very little), and humanity in general. However, some think good will ultimately come from it (of course, those same people somehow think that if the West Bank does better under Fatah than Gaza does under Hamas it could force the latter to make peace with Israel; I say, dream on).
And what can the NY Times find to say about it? Let’s start with the headline: “Gaza is calm after Hamas gains control.”
Well, I suppose so. But a headline not only sets the tone of what a story is truly about, but editors are aware that for many people who read only headlines and not the article, it sets the sole impression. And one thing I think we can safely say is that the Hamas takeover of Gaza is not primarily about calm.
Now take a look at the article. The very first sentence is about the calm. What’s the second sentence about? Why, President Bush, of course:
The West Bank and Gaza territories that President Bush said he wanted to see become an independent Palestinian state before he left office appeared torn asunder.
Actually, this is a Palestinian state, although it’s hardly a truly independent one, since it relies on a combination of welfare, Iran, and the country it (and Iran) wishes to destroy, Israel. Politically, Gaza is fast becoming another Iranian vassal like the previously thriving but now supremely messed-up Lebanon (which became messed up with the advent of Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, so the whole thing can be heard as a sad little roundelay).
Read the whole article. There are only two suggestions of what Hamas really is, and they occur late in the 1600-word piece.
The first is rather subtle; a quote from a Hamas spokesman who told Hamas radio, “The era of justice and Islamic rule [emphasis mine] has arrived.” The second is the following sentence:
The United States, Israel and the European Union consider Hamas, which seeks Israel’s destruction, a terrorist group.
Isn’t that put in a nicely post-modern way?
Interestingly, though, merely by reporting the facts, the Times inadvertently manages to cast Israel in a positive light. Israel, that Little Satan of the apartheid fence, is planning to protect the West Bank (which it still occupies). The hapless Olmert is planning a trip to the US, and:
….is expected to tell Bush that Israel favors sealing off the Israeli-occupied West Bank from the infection of Gaza, continuing to prevent contact between them….Israel would also like to confront Hamas with the responsibility for governing Gaza: providing jobs, food and security for its people.
Tough love for Hamas. And here’s some possible good news for Fatah:
Israeli officials suggested that Israel would work with Abbas and a Fatah government in the West Bank, and could gradually hand over to it the remaining Palestinian tax revenues, about $562 million, withheld since Hamas took power a year ago in March. ”To give the money to a Hamas government would be reckless,” one senior Israeli official said. ”To give it to a Fatah government is an opportunity.”
Gaza and the West Bank degenerated dreadfully under PLO rule. When Arafat finally died, he left not only a power vacuum but a totally corrupt state and a people who had long been fed a toxic combination of hatred, deprivation, corruption, violence, and entitlement.
And into that power vacuum rushed, not surprisingly, Hamas. Many predicted that this would have the positive result of revealing the true face of the Palestinians and allow the world to see them as they really are, and even possibly to do something about it.
And that might happen. The Arab League is none too happy about these developments. Secretary General Moussa told CNN “Arab League members are very angry with the Palestinians for what they have done to themselves and their cause.” It will be interesting to see whether the Arab League decides to take any action. But whatever they do, it’s unlikely to bring calm, at least in the short run.
Of course, the BDS-afflicted psychopathic left must blame anyone and everyone except Hamas and the phony Arab policies that produced just one more catastrophe in the Levant.
Anyone who watched the BBC last night saw Hamas gunmen emptying their AK-47s and other automatic weapons into the air without a thought in their monkey brains about where the bullets would come down. The primitive savagery of the Arabs can’t think beyond their testoserone to the fact that 2 million lost souls live in the garbage dump that is Gaza, and some will get hit by said bullets. Happens all the time, but the BBC and Guardian never report where the bullets come down.
And a brain-dead bimbo Arab reporter in Beirut called the assassination of a Sunni judge “daring” as though killing someone and ten bystanders in an amusement park was an act of bravery. This bi-yotch with a mike then said that the Shi’ites and their allies were “chipping away” at the anti-Syrian majority in Lebanese parliament, as if seven murders in the last two years was some sort of parliamentary tactic.
I lived in the Middle East for almost a decade, speak and read Arabic, and there is little if anything more to hope from this savage medieval relic of a “civilization” that purports to be founded on a “religion of peace.” My lyin’ eyes just can’t see the peace that blowing up Sunni and Shi’ite places of worship in progressive acts of retaliation fits into the term “civilization.”
And any female Arab bimbo who describes a car-bomb murder in an amusement park as “daring” should be fired immediately. And “chipping away” is not a term literate people use for political murders.
These murderers are to blame, and the International Left sees them as allies, and so must finger-point at Bush, Blair, Israel, or even Global Warming before it attacks its terrorist friends on the left. Or violent reactionaries like Hamas, who are the friends of the NYT, WaPo, and other political elites who hate and oppose Bush with the irrational frenzy of true psychotic maniacs.
Hamas makes a desert, and the NYT calls it peace.
“The United States, Israel and the European Union consider Hamas, which seeks Israel’s destruction, a terrorist group.”
Yes, Hamas is considered a terrorist group. And water is considered wet.
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