Today’s incident on the Gaza jihad flotilla was an act of war – but not by Israel. The tsunami of Jew-hating propaganda from the jihad-loving media has already begun. The international media, predictably, is spinning the story as if it were all Israel’s fault, saying that the IDF killed innocent civilian humanitarian workers on a flotilla headed to Gaza to bring aid to the starving people there.
In reality, none of that is true. This was an act of war against Israel. The people in Gaza aren’t starving, and the “humanitarian aid workers” on the flotilla were actually Islamic jihadists who attacked the IDF first. It was a planned attack — by Hamas and the hardline Muslim groups. Hamas supporters planned an armed assault, which included the murder of captured Israeli heroes. They almost succeeded.
Will you get the real story from the media? Not a chance. Before the Israeli self-defense raid even occurred, the BBC said that Israel was facing a lose-lose situation. And that is how it is playing out now. The Associated Press is reading like Al-Jazeera:
The violent takeover dealt yet another blow to Israel’s international image, already tarnished by war crimes accusations in Gaza and its 3-year-old blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory.
Of course AP doesn’t mention that the day before the raid, the “humanitarians” on the jihad flotilla were chanting: “Khaibar, Khaibar, oh Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!”
Khaibar was an Arabian oasis populated by Jews. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, stormed the oasis and massacred the Jews there and seized their land and possessions. Says Islamic scholar Robert Spencer:
Thus when modern-day jihadists invoke Khaybar, they are recalling an aggressive, surprise raid by Muhammad which resulted in the final eradication of the once considerable Jewish presence in Arabia. To the jihadists, Khaybar means the destruction of the Jews and the seizure of their property by the Muslims.
Today the jihadist forces want war again, and a chance to repeat the Khaibar massacre. Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Lebanese Premier Saad Hariri issued a joint statement condemning the “crime committed by Israel with this barbaric attack on defenceless civilians.” They “invite the international community to take measures as soon as possible to end Israel’s crimes, which could lead to war in the Middle East with repercussions far beyond the regional borders.”
It is no accident that reality is being rewritten, and this brazen, bloody attack by Islamic jihadists is being called a humanitarian mission. The media is the front line in the impending war. It is interesting how this new war is being waged on two fronts, very much in tandem with one another. The battle has long been in the information battlespace. Guns, bombs, and bloodshed are the results of what happens in the war of ideas. Now we enter phase II. The West has been sufficiently subdued by years of relentless anti-Semitic propaganda. Now the anti-Semitic forces of jihad are going in for the kill with the tacit approval and sanction of their copywriters in the media. They’re dressing up genocide in a flotilla bow and serving it up cold.
In the information battlespace, the jihadis can count on the complicity of the subdued, Islamophiliac press. They can physically attack Israeli troops and count on the corrupt media to package any act of Israeli self-defense as an aggression. Then this repackaging will lead to international condemnation, United Nations Security Council resolutions, and further delegitimization of Israel.
This Jew-hating, jihad flotilla was the opening salvo in the war.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pointed out that the flotilla jihadists attacked first, and that the Israeli soldiers “had to defend themselves, defend their lives, or they would have been killed.” He explained:
What we want to prevent coming into Gaza are rockets, missiles, explosives and war materials that could be used to attack our civilians. This is an ongoing policy and it is the one that guided our actions yesterday.
But no one was listening. His truth doesn’t fit the media narrative. The media would much rather listen to J Street (the J is for “jihad,” not “Jewish”), which is using the jihad flotilla incident to call for annihilation of the Jews: they’re asking our decidedly anti-Israel president to impose the jihadists’ “peace” plan “forcefully” upon Israel.
This shocking outcome of an effort to bring humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza is in part a consequence of the ongoing, counterproductive Israeli blockade of Gaza. J Street has been and continues to be opposed to the blockade – believing that there are better ways to ensure Israel’s security and to prevent weapons smuggling than a complete closure of the Gaza Strip.
We do not know yet what the impact of today’s incident will be on the just-restarted peace process, on Israel’s relations with the international community, or on the health of Arab-Jewish relations within Israel itself.
We do know, however, that today is one more nail in the coffin for hopes of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict peacefully and diplomatically and for preserving Israel’s Jewish and democratic character. We urge President Obama and other international and regional leaders to take today’s terrible news as an opportunity to engage even more forcefully in immediate efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nothing about the Gaza jihad against Israeli civilians – of course.
The Obama Administration has elevated these suicidal Jews (a.k.a. Jewicides), who were once relegated to the very fringe of the American diaspora, to the position of spokesmen for the American Jewish community.
They now speak at the White House on behalf of all the American kapos, selling their debased souls for a bit of fame and apparent Washington insider influence. The J Street Jew-haters, who are, by the way, largely funded by cash from Muslim countries, as well as from George Soros and his ilk) are now Obama’s go-to boys on Jewish issues — as evidenced by their frequent trips to the White House.
Where is the American diaspora today? Where is our spineless, gutless Jewish lay leadership? Knocking at the back door of the service quarters of the White House? Where is AIPAC? They’re so busy trying to be PC and Sharia-compliant, they have forgotten why they exist. But J Street hasn’t.
The Jew-killers are circling their wagons while the decaying West remains incapable of standing up for its basic principles or our unalienable rights.
If the incompetent and corrupt media could get past their blinding anti-semitism, the West might have a shot. But their self-imposed Sharia, their determination not to “defame Islam,” has made them the global jihad’s most powerful weapon. In the war of ideas, we are thoroughly outgunned.