Friday, July 4, 2008

Reuters, A Tool For Terrorists




It has been documented before just how much Reuters is in the pocket of islamic terrorists across the world - it wasn't that long ago the world faced the realization that Reuters had doctored photographs in Lebanon trying to show bias towards the Israeli attacks on Hezbollah. Now, Reuters is again showing its bias towards Israel. And it is showing that it is a puppet of Jihad using a Western organizational name. Reuters is basically the islamists' propaganda office in the West.

I want to dissect a Reuters story that is out today here. I will be excerpting a number of pieces of that story and will also excerpt it in its entirety at the end of this posting. Let's look at the title of the Reuters story:





Israel reclosure of crossings dampens Gazans' hopes




Okay, that's pretty clear isn't it? Reuters is saying that Israel is at fault because of closing Gaza crossings again. If you read that title without knowing anything of the past week and a half, you are going to say that Israel is at fault, aren't you?

Next:



Israel responded to Thursday's rocket attack by again closing its border crossing with Gaza on Friday, dampening hopes among Gazans that a ceasefire between Hamas and the Jewish state might ease an Israeli-led blockade.


Notice how Reuters decided NOT to write this by saying: After Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel on Thursday, Israel had no choice but to again close Gaza borders.

Next:



But, the Israeli army's killing of a top militant commander in the occupied West Bank, sporadic rocket attacks and periodic Israeli closures of Gaza's crossings have strained the truce.


This is incredible. Reuters emphasizes "Israeli" twice in this sentence and mentions Hamas or Islamic Jihad or terrorists or militants NOT ONCE in this sentence. If you reread that sentence, you might even assume that ISRAEL fired the "sporadic rocket attacks."

Next:



"What came in was very limited and did not meet what is required," livestock merchant Saber Abu Haleeb said of the amount of food supplies and goods Israel has allowed into the territory since the truce went into effect.
Israel cut back sharply on the supply of goods into the Gaza Strip a year ago, after Hamas seized the territory from forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas's more secular Fatah faction.
Responding to Israel's decision to reclose the crossings, Hamas said on Friday it was suspending indirect talks to secure the release of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas-led militants two years ago.

Again, Reuters goes on ad nauseum about the Israeli blockades and closings. They even go so far as to mention the Hamas capture of Shalit but do not ever mention the reason the crossings were closed and why supplies were halted.

Summary:

Here's what has happened in this farce of a truce inked between Hamas and Israel. I believe it was on the fourth day of the truce, a rocket attack upon Israel was fired from Gaza at the same time that the Israelis had eliminated a wanted terrorist leader in the West Bank. When the rocket attack happened, Hamas said nothing. Later, they blamed the rocket attack on another faction in Gaza and even arrested those involved. A DAY LATER, Hamas and other terrorists said the rockets had been fired in retaliation for the Israel killing of the terror leader. So, in other words, Hamas had no way of covering themselves for violating the truce until they made up this fairy tale a day later. And the Israeli action took place in the WEST BANK! If the Israelis had killed a Hezbollah jihadist trying to cross Israel's northern border, would Hamas have used that as justification?

But none of this is reported by Reuters. Reuters is the western version of Al Jezeera. They are a tool. They are a puppet. They are a disgrace to journalism.

One more thing. When you look at the full story below, notice the name who wrote this "story".... you see it? .... "By Nidal al-Mughrabi"



Israel reclosure of crossings dampens Gazans' hopes

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel responded to Thursday's rocket attack by again closing its border crossing with Gaza on Friday, dampening hopes among Gazans that a ceasefire between Hamas and the Jewish state might ease an Israeli-led blockade.
A truce brokered by Egypt on June 19 calls on militants in the Gaza Strip to halt rocket fire in return for Israel gradually lifting its blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.
But, the Israeli army's killing of a top militant commander in the occupied West Bank, sporadic rocket attacks and periodic Israeli closures of Gaza's crossings have strained the truce.
Like thousands of Gazans who had hoped the ceasefire would offer respite from the stifling blockade, 60-year-old Kefaya Abu-Odah is angry at Gazan militants who have been breaching the truce, prompting Israel to shut the border crossings.
"They (militants) do not want calm and neither does Israel," she said at a cattle market in the northern Gaza Strip where she sought to sell her two sheep.
She doubted the ceasefire would last.
Rocket fire against Israel is rarely criticized by Palestinians, who view such attacks as a legitimate response to Israel's economic blockade of Gaza and its military operations against militant groups in the occupied West Bank.
Israel maintains its cordon is a response to rocket attacks against its civilians and has said its crackdown on militants in the West Bank was necessary to stop attacks against Israelis.
"I want to sell the sheep and earn some money so I can live. I can't even find food for my sheep," she said, adding that 60 members of her family shared a small building in the costal territory, home to some 1.5 million aid-dependent Palestinians.
Others at the market complained the ceasefire, now just over two weeks old, has done little to lift Gaza's shattered economy.
"What came in was very limited and did not meet what is required," livestock merchant Saber Abu Haleeb said of the amount of food supplies and goods Israel has allowed into the territory since the truce went into effect.
Israel cut back sharply on the supply of goods into the Gaza Strip a year ago, after Hamas seized the territory from forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas's more secular Fatah faction.
Responding to Israel's decision to reclose the crossings, Hamas said on Friday it was suspending indirect talks to secure the release of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas-led militants two years ago.
Saki Abu al-Ward, a heart patient, said gunmen behind the rocket attacks wanted to sabotage the truce, which he had hoped would allow him to travel to Egypt to receive better treatment.
"We hoped crossings would open and especially the Rafah crossing through which patients like me could go for treatment," said the 56-year-old.

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