They keep flooding the zone during a crucial negotiation.
There’s a pattern here that any journalist has to deliberately ‘unsee’ and it goes like this.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas reach a critical point at which the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group has to consider whether it’s willing to make a deal.
It responds by pulling off a terrorist attack or two on Israeli soldiers. And, there is suddenly a fresh wave of atrocity propaganda that is oddly timely. This time around it’s the babies starving to death hoax. The entire famine is a hoax, but this particular angle is viciously effective as propaganda. Of course if you’re a serious journalist, you might wonder why the ‘zone is suddenly being flooded’ with some very specific and media-savvy content at just the time when Hamas is trying to extract more concessions. You might even consider the possibility that all the fake photos or the photos of otherwise sick kids being handed to you may just be an information op.
But that’s not an issue for the media that consistently insists on not seeing the blatantly obvious and instead pushing enemy narratives. Are journalists stupid? In some cases. But in others they know full well what they’re doing and eagerly taking part in information operations.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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