Palestinians: Fake News and "Alternative Facts"

those who expect western media to expose the lies of islamic monsters had better stop holding their breath. for the most part, the media broadcast untruths favoring devout adherents of the pirate cult of islam, yet claim to be unbiased. were they merely writing opinion pieces and admitting up front that they have a bias, i would have no problem, because everybody is entitled to his own opinion, however distorted and putrid, and to giving voice to it. the media claim to be unbiased, however, which makes them liars.

i stopped paying attention to NBC in the u.s. when they used model rocket engines to ignite gasoline in a piece purportedly exposing gasoline tank problems in GM trucks in 1993. there might actually have been a problem, but they LIED. i stopped paying attention to ABC in the u.s. when they aired a video of phil robertson of duck dynasty fame in 2013 in which he says that girls should be married off when they are 16. U can hear laughter in the video, so even the edited clip ABC aired indicated that he was joking, but they presented it as if he were a child molester. i never heard a retraction, so i no longer listen to their LIES. in the last 8 years, the "mainstream" media in the u.s. have time and again fanned the flames of racist hatred and spread anti-christian LIES, so i no longer believe that ANY of them are unbiased. all who claim to be unbiased are LIARS.

thus, to get my news, i now watch both leftist and rightist websites. i sometimes include TV networks as starting points, but i always recognize that they LIE, so they can be no more than starting points. the truth is much harder to ferret out than it used to be for me, but it used to be that i was a moron who believed LIARS.

i believe the LIARS no longer.

Bassam Tawil, you are a remarkable and brave individual. You speak truth to power, and do not flinch in the face of adversity and perhaps even death. Keep the flame burning brightly, Goos Sir!

The Chief Rabbi Emeritus of the United Kingdom, Lord Jonathan Sacks, made a very good point in a lecture on antisemitism he gave to the UN earlier this year.

Everybody, he said, has things that go wrong in their lives. When that happens, there are two ways to react: one, sit down alone or with friends and work out what to do; the other, just simply BLAME somebody.

On this basis, he worked out that the biggest victims of anti-semites are anti-semites themselves who BLAME Jews for absolutely everything.

The same, unfortunately, goes for the Palestinians. They BLAME Israel for just about everything; and, except in private, themselves for nothing.

WHAT has this tactic achieved? Zilch! It hasn't, isn't and will not achieve anything. It's a ticket to ultimate oblivion.

Bassam, excellent and powerfully written article. Almost all of the Western Media (except for a few companies) fear to report on or otherwise have converted to assisting Islam in its global expansion and in perpetuity desire for the destruction of Israel...!
As you have clearly mentioned, jihad is allowed to defend Islam. This is what marks it as a religion of violence toward "all others"...
The world media needs to recognize that there is an absence of the "true Religious Peace process" absent within the religion of Islam.
Islam is "Infiltrating Societies Liquidating Anti-Muslims"...!! It is real and a nation killing para/military machine. Until the world recognizes this fact and requires it to denounce terrorism from its internal radical wings toward other religions and peoples of the world, denounce "jihad" in any form from its religious tennants, "it" should be recognized for the terrorist promoting religion that it is!

This strange "sickness", "fake news", has its origins in the need for ratings, which substantiate or provide the rationale for huge advertising dollars. That is how it started. Also, the time factor was significant: compression of news into structured digestible data bytes. If all you have is thirty minutes to tell the public very complex stories, someone has to find a method/system for reducing a story to its most tantalizing, components. How do you garner the public's attention span, which is getting shorter due to a technology-driven Attention Deficit Disorder? You learn to reduce to the lowest common denominator a story which will be easier for a harried worker to digest.

All these facets of modern media news journalism has caused the actual real news to become distorted, if not totally, false.

First, major media needs high ratings. How do you get those ratings? You have to "hook people", who have short attention spans. How do you hook? You sensationalize your headlines. You snag a viewer, or capture a news headline scanner-type reader, and you reduce the whole truth into small bytes of data....Voila, the breeding ground for some very subtle fakery!

Misinformation starts in the school system where children are given misinformation as part of their 'education'. This continues into adulthood where points of reference are incorrect and therefore directs their thinking process. Unfortunately, this happens in the west as well which explains our tolerance for all the misguided behavior that goes on in general as well as in the media. We are at the precipice of the destruction of the western model which was based on Judeo/Christian values answerable to a higher moral authority. With the advent of moral relativism and secular humanism we have no basic standard and whoever or whatever steps in at a point in time makes that determination and guides our values.

What is the western journalist's responsibility when passing on Palestinian fake news? The point at which many media outlets start in selecting which stories will be made public and which sources will be cited as credible is a facade for regressive liberal socialists to recycle fake news stories. Their lack of vetting the sources allows them to print or cite sources that are false based on their selection of ideological preference. That is the determining factor in their selection of news stories and if they are credible. Is it bystander apathy? Their empathy seems derived from their own self-categorization theories derived from their regressive liberal socialist identity. It encourages constipated myth making to justify blaming others, and is further evidence of moral disengagement.

It is my advocation of America's freedoms, and pluralistic commitments that enable me to be critical, what we find is lack of criticism and self appraisal by regressive liberal journalists and a peculiar and special relationship with groups like Islamist Palestinians perhaps because they share the same identity markers.

So, what else is new? Blood libels against Jews are not back ---THEY NEVER REALLY GO AWAY. This is one way to keep so many Muslims in the miserable, poor and ignorant situation they are in ---- PERMANENTLY!!! This is one way the poor Muslims are willing eagerly to do the dirty work for their the so--called "leaders" and the ANTISEMITIC so--called "journalists". Also, do not expect any miracles from the International Community --- when it concerns Jews. The International Community is exactly where it wants to be --- killing Jews and getting rid of Israel. Thank you Bassam Tawil and Gatestone.

THE HAMAS CHARTER

http://www.acpr.org.il/resources/hamascharter.html