The fuckin’ downed airplane ain’t the only BIG news of the day.
DEAD BABIES in Gaza.
Joo response. KILL MORE OF ‘EM …. 20 fucking minutes after they signed a UN ceasefire agreement.
Sure would be nice to read about a bunch of dead Joo soldiers. But, that ain’t gonna happen when Soldierboys have all the big weapons, and the civilians have virtually none. Let that be a lesson to ……….. US.
NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
By Glenn Greenwald 17 Jul 2014, 12:43 PM EDT 390
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault (both Mohyeldin and Engel speak Arabic).
Mohyeldin is an Egyptian-American with extensive experience reporting on that region. He has covered dozens of major Middle East events in the last decade for CNN, NBC and Al Jazeera English, where his reporting on the 2008 Israeli assault on Gaza made him a star of the network. NBC aggressively pursued him to leave Al Jazeera, paying him far more than the standard salary for its on-air correspondents.
Yesterday, Mohyeldin witnessed and then reported on the brutal killing by Israeli gunboats of four young boys as they played soccer on a beach in Gaza City. He was instrumental, both in social media and on the air, in conveying to the world the visceral horror of the attack.
Mohyeldin recounted how, moments before their death, he was kicking a soccer ball with the four boys, who were between the ages of 9 and 11 and all from the same family. He posted numerous chilling details on his Twitter and Instagram accounts, including the victims’ names and ages, photographs he took of their anguished parents, and video of one of their mothers as she learned about the death of her young son. He interviewed one of the wounded boys at the hospital shortly before being operated on. He then appeared on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, where he dramatically recounted what he saw.
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Despite this powerful first-hand reporting – or perhaps because of it – Mohyeldin was nowhere to be seen on last night’s NBC Nightly News broadcast with Brian Williams. Instead, as Media Bistro’s Jordan Chariton noted, NBC curiously had Richard Engel – who was in Tel Aviv, and had just arrived there an hour or so earlier – “report” on the attack. Charlton wrote that “the decision to have Engel report the story for ‘Nightly’ instead of Mohyeldin angered some NBC News staffers.”
Indeed, numerous NBC employees, including some of the network’s highest-profile stars, were at first confused and then indignant over the use of Engel rather than Mohyeldin to report the story. But what they did not know, and what has not been reported until now, is that Mohyeldin was removed completely from reporting on Gaza by a top NBC executive, David Verdi, who ordered Mohyeldin to leave Gaza immediately.
Over the last two weeks, Mohyeldin’s reporting has been far more balanced and even-handed than the standard pro-Israel coverage that dominates establishment American press coverage; his reports have provided context to the conflict that is missing from most American reports and he avoids adopting Israeli government talking points as truth. As a result, neocon and “pro-Israel” websites have repeatedly attacked him as a “Hamas spokesman” and spouting “pro-Hamas rants.”
Last week, as he passed over the border from Israel, he said while reporting that “you can understand why some human rights organizations call Gaza ‘the world’s largest outdoor prison,’”; he added: “One of the major complaints and frustrations among many people is that this is a form of collective punishment. You have 1.7 million people in this territory, now being bombarded, with really no way out.”
Gazans may have no way out of Gaza, but at this point, Mohyeldin seems to have no way back in. After several requests, NBC executives have not yet provided any on-the-record statements; they will be added if provided.
Abraham would be so proud….not.
I’m rooting for our government to mind its own business for once and let the two sides settle their differences.
As it is, Israel has ZERO incentive to sue for peace. Until the US steps aside, the unending conflict there will continue.
Not sure . I detest Judaism as much if not more then Islam. Maybe we will get lucky and destroy each other.
Another Humanitarian crisis our wonderful Fedgov cares to ignore. Instead of Russia we should be sanctioning Israel.
Be very careful what you believe. People act consistent with their beliefs.
The first casualty of War is the Truth.
“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”
― Harry M. Collins, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology
Yes, stucky, babies die. Men die, women die, cows die, horses die, chickens die in War. The only ones that delight in War are the Flies.
So, why choose it, Is life that boring?
bb–Hitler had the same view about the Jews…You’re in good company.
Death to Israel!!
Homer ,those same Jews declared financial and economic war on Hitler in 1934 and did everything thing they could to undermine him.Why ?Because he took back control of the currency from the Jewish bankers.
Hold your horses—bb. I’ve been around a long time and I never even got a whiff of that.
What I have read is that American bankers bankrolled Hitler in the 30’s.
What you’re saying is, what Kennedy did a month before he died with the printing of US notes.
Hmmmm!
I was fourteen years old at the time of the UN vote in 1948. Maybe my father’s comments about liberating the work camp at Dortmund, Germany, in 1945 played a part, along with the newsreels of the liberation of work camps and death camps for making me pro-Israel.
Doesn’t mean I won’t tell or won’t laugh at Jewish jokes.
After the 1967 war, I roared with laughter at Abba Eban’s comment at the UN, live on TV: “There are six million Jews. There are two hundred million Arabs. Is the distinguished delegate from Egypt trying to say we surrounded them?” Unforgettable.
“If the Arabs lay down their guns, there will be no more shooting. If the Jews lay down their guns, there will be no more Israel.” — Bibi Netanyahu.
You lay a bunch of mortar shells and rockets on me on a daily basis, you better pray to Allah that I don’t nuke your sorry ass.
The propaganda against Israel is no different from the anti-gun propaganda of the Bloomberg claque. Political garbage-talk. Re Israel, to appease the middle-east oil suppliers.
Just stop it already.
FFS.
Israel has the capacity (if not the will) to make every principal Arab/Muslim major centers of populations into glazed silicon (i.e. glass).
You all had better hope that Israel down plays this and all the other kinds of aggression and terrorism against them with ground and conventional forces.
You can bet your ass that if Israel sees significant defeat and large loss of life in its’ future and can’t figure out how to make it go away then they WILL go nuke. After all, throughout history, they have no where else to go.
The “outraged” Palestinians, on the other hand, chose the wrong (i.e. losing) side of three wars on Israel. When you lose serial wars against someone, you do not get to choose a damn thing as far as territory or anything else. But the extremist Muslim factors don’t care as they are fighting to completely destroy Israel and drive everyone into the sea.
Before that even has a medium chance of succeeding, there will be a nuke party that will light up the world — and maybe kick the fourth turning over the top into global collapse — who knows?
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Israel won’t nuke Gaza, the fallout of will be detrimental to the very nation they inhabit.
It’s easier to be holier than thou when you’re not living in a war zone, or have crazy fucks blowing up your women and children on tour buses.
Regardless of the politics or religious aspects of the state of Israel. Regardless of whether you think they’re there legitimately. They have a right to defend themselves and go after those who have inflicted damage on them.
My bible says turn the other cheek. There’s says an eye for eye. They have the god given right to their religion, belief, freedom, life, and liberty. There are those who would take that away from them. Which god is working where? It’s rhetorical, Z.
KB, they would have nuked Egypt in 1967, which is the only thing which stopped the Egyptian tanks in their tracks. No one has forgotten, and if Iran wants to get bombed back to the stone age, they can persist in their game of cat and mouse.
The Devil would just as soon wipe man off the face of the earth. God can rapture his people off the earth in the twinkle of an eye. It’s a Mexican stand off, and we know who wins.
Keep the faith.