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How the Media Abet Hamas
A missile misfires—and journalists misfire in response.
The belief in Israel’s moral fallenness could not have taken hold so widely—among Jews or Gentiles—were it not for the work of journalists and publishers, as Hamas knows all too well. Indeed, the terrorist group’s military strategy rests on maximizing civilian casualties in Gaza and then telling the world a tale of Palestinian suffering at the hands of bloodthirsty Israelis. So when yesterday a missile launched from Gaza at Israeli civilians fell short and landed near a hospital (possibly exploding a munitions dump), Hamas rushed to tell journalists that the IDF had bombed a hospital and killed 500 people. The New York Times and other outlets then rushed to amplify this claim without any sort of due diligence. John Podhoretz comments:
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