Video dispatch 28: CNN to Hamas: “Do you really believe Jews slaughter Christians?” & other videos

August 05, 2014

 

I attach a further collection of videos below. I may add videos to this page later, if you would like to return to it and refresh it later in the week.

This is a follow-up to other dispatches on the recent bout of Hamas-Israel fighting, some of which also include videos. They can be seen and read here.

And elsewhere:

* ISIS destroying Iraq’s cultural heritage one site at a time

-- Tom Gross

 

CONTENTS

1. Hamas official praises Palestinians for “sacrificing woman, children and elderly”
2. CNN asks Hamas: “Do you really believe Jews slaughter Christians to make matza with their blood?”
3. Gaza demonstrators with Isis flags block key tunnel in London, preventing ambulance reaching hospital
4. Gaza imam calls for Jews’ extermination
5. Finnish journalist admits Hamas rockets are being fired from Shifa hospital in Gaza
6. Indian TV shows what most European and American networks refuse to
7. France 24 also admits Palestinians fired rockets from “right next to a UN facility”
8. A Palestinian human shield speaks out
9. Channel 4 News’s Jon Snow does his best to bring a Hamas man to his side
10. Israeli Labor Party opposition leader Isaac Herzog corrects the BBC
11. Dateline London slips up, allows guest on air to put Israel’s positions
12. Joan Rivers supports Israel in 2nd epic rant, this time on Israeli TV
13. Jews respond as pro-Hamas crowd marches through New York’s diamond district
14. Siren “flash mob” in Trafalgar Square, London


[Notes below by Tom Gross]

HAMAS OFFICIAL PRAISES PALESTINIANS FOR “SACRIFICING WOMAN, CHILDREN AND ELDERLY”

While the BBC’s much acclaimed (and much derided) “Chief Middle East correspondent” Jeremy Bowen continues to protest (for example, in his article in the current issue of the New Statesman magazine) that no Hamas official has encouraged the use of human shields, they in fact do so on an almost daily basis.

Here, for example, is Hamas official Ismail Radwan (interviewed on Al Jazeera on August 1, 2014), praising Palestinians in Gaza for “sacrificing woman, children and elderly… with your blood and body parts” and encouraging more to do so.





 

CNN ASKS HAMAS: “DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE JEWS SLAUGHTER CHRISTIANS TO MAKE MATZA WITH THEIR BLOOD?”

Unlike the BBC, which I have not seen reporting on Hamas’ strident anti-Semitism despite devoting an incredible amount of airtime to Hamas these few past weeks, here is Wolf Blitzer of CNN yesterday evening challenging Hamas on this. If you continue watching the video, you will see that Blitzer does his best not to let him get away with avoiding answering the question.

I should add that the figures given in this video for the number of Palestinians killed by Israel, just like the figures repeated without question in virtually every news broadcast by the BBC in recent weeks, figures concocted by Hamas activists working for the UN in Gaza, are also significantly exaggerated.





 

GAZA IMAM CALLS FOR JEWS’ EXTERMINATION

In this sermon, from July 2014, delivered in a mosque in Gaza and broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV station, a leading Hamas-affiliated cleric declares that:

“Our doctrine in fighting you (the Jews) is that we will totally exterminate you. We will not leave a single one of you alive, because you are alien usurpers of the land and eternal mercenaries.”

“Research the history, my brothers. Wherever the Jews lived, they spread corruption,” he says. “And Allah loves not the corrupters.’”





 

GAZA DEMONSTRATORS WITH ISIS FLAGS BLOCK KEY TUNNEL IN LONDON, PREVENTING AMBULANCE REACHING HOSPITAL

In this video, black Isis flags are raised alongside Palestinian flags as protesters block a key traffic artery in south London, preventing an ambulance trying to get through to go to hospital.

Nearby, local mayor Lutfur Rahman flew the Palestinian flag outside the town hall in Tower Hamlets.





 

FINNISH JOURNALIST ADMITS HAMAS ROCKETS ARE BEING FIRED FROM SHIFA HOSPITAL IN GAZA

This is the kind of key information that journalists from organizations such as the BBC will never share with viewers.





 

INDIAN TV SHOWS WHAT MOST EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NETWORKS REFUSE TO

The Indian TV network NDTV broadcast this report today, August 5th.

Indian TV shows pictures of Hamas launching rockets from civilian areas




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On the network’s website the journalist Sreenivasan Jain writes:

“This report is being aired on NDTV and published on ndtv.com after our team left the Gaza strip - Hamas has not taken very kindly to any reporting of its rockets being fired. But just as we reported the devastating consequences of Israel’s offensive on Gaza’s civilians, it is equally important to report on how Hamas places those very civilians at risk by firing rockets deep from the heart of civilian zones.”

 

FRANCE 24 ALSO ADMITS PALESTINIANS FIRING ROCKETS FROM “RIGHT NEXT TO A UN FACILITY”

This clip shows what most major American and British networks refuse to broadcast:





 

A PALESTINIAN HUMAN SHIELD SPEAKS OUT

Lebanese-American Brigitte Gabriel talks about how she was used as a human shield by the PLO when she lived in southern Lebanon as a child.





 

CHANNEL 4 NEWS’S JON SNOW DOES HIS BEST TO BRING A HAMAS MAN TO HIS SIDE

Britain’s Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow is possibly the most anti-Israeli TV news host in Europe. He has been presenting near daily diatribes against Israel for the past four weeks, as he has on many occasions in the past.

In an extremely rare interview (below), he challenges this Hamas spokesman. And despite his best attempts, he cannot get the Hamas man to be on his side.


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ISRAELI LABOR PARTY OPPOSITION LEADER ISAAC HERZOG CORRECTS THE BBC

The BBC evening news program Newsnight, despite itself, had Israeli Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog on, and he explained how even the left / peace camp in Israel are completely behind Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu when it comes to tackling Hamas.

“It’s a very distorted picture,” Herzog tells the BBC. “Hamas have taken the money of European tax payers and… spent it on tunnels [for terror attacks].”



 

DATELINE LONDON SLIPS UP, ALLOWS A GUEST ON AIR TO PUT ISRAEL’S POSITIONS

“Dateline London” is shown every weekend on BBC World TV and the domestic BBC 24 hour news channel. Usually, Israel is demonized week after week by the journalists selected to appear.

But last weekend British political analyst and correspondent Jonathan Sacerdoti was invited on, and he forcefully made some points to explain Israel’s position, and how the international media have been intimidated by Hamas in Gaza:





 

JOAN RIVERS SUPPORTS ISRAEL IN 2ND EPIC RANT, THIS TIME ON ISRAELI TV

First American actress Joan Rivers made these forcible, off the cuff pro-Israel remarks:


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Then she repeated her rant on Israeli TV Channel 10, In the interview, Rivers criticized other celebrities who are speaking out against Israel.




 

JEWS RESPOND AS PRO-HAMAS CROWD MARCHES THROUGH NEW YORK’S DIAMOND DISTRICT





 

SIREN “FLASH MOB” IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON

Following many, often violent, pro-Palestinians demonstrations in London and Paris in recent weeks, including some in which Jews were physically assaulted, on Sunday a group of young people – Jewish and non-Jewish – gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to show the public what it’s like to live under rocket fire.

“Many Israelis have only 15 seconds to run to a bomb shelter. What would you do?” bystanders were asked.




Other dispatches in this video series can be seen here:

* Video dispatch 1: The Lady In Number 6

* Video dispatch 2: Iran: Zuckerberg created Facebook on behalf of the Mossad

* Video dispatch 3: Vladimir Putin sings “Blueberry Hill” (& opera in the mall)

* Video dispatch 4: While some choose boycotts, others choose “Life”

* Video dispatch 5: A Jewish tune with a universal appeal

* Video dispatch 6: Carrying out acts of terror is nothing new for the Assad family

* Video dispatch 7: A brave woman stands up to the Imam (& Cheering Bin Laden in London)

* Video dispatch 8: Syrians burn Iranian and Russian Flags (not Israeli and U.S. ones)

* Video Dispatch 9: “The one state solution for a better Middle East...”

* Video dispatch 10: British TV discovers the next revolutionary wave of Israeli technology

* Video dispatch 11: “Freedom, Freedom!” How some foreign media are reporting the truth about Syria

* Video dispatch 12: All I want for Christmas is...

* Video dispatch 13: “Amazing Israeli innovations Obama will see (& Tchaikovsky Flashwaltz!)

* Video dispatch 14: Jon Stewart under fire in Egypt (& Kid President meets Real President)

* Video dispatch 15: A rare 1945 BBC recording: Survivors in Belsen sing Hatikvah (& “No Place on Earth”)

* Video dispatch 16: Joshua Prager: “In search for the man who broke my neck”

* Video dispatch 17: Pushback against the “dictator Erdogan” - Videos from the “Turkish summer”

* Video dispatch 18: Syrian refugees: “May God bless Israel”

* Video dispatch 19: An uplifting video (& ‘Kenya calls in Israeli special forces to help end mall siege’)

* Video dispatch 20: No Woman, No Drive: First stirrings of Saudi democracy?

* Video dispatch 21: Al-Jazeera: Why can’t Arab armies be more humane like Israel’s?

* Video dispatch 22: Jerusalem. Tel Aviv. Beirut. Happy.

* Video dispatch 23: A nice moment in the afternoon

* Video dispatch 24: How The Simpsons were behind the Arab Spring

* Video dispatch 25: Iranians and Israelis enjoy World Cup love-in (& U.S. Soccer Guide)

* Video dispatch 26: Intensifying conflict as more rockets aimed at Tel Aviv

* Video dispatch 27: Debating the media coverage of the current Hamas-Israel conflict

* Video dispatch 28: CNN asks Hamas: “Do you really believe Jews slaughter Christians?” (& other items)

* Video dispatch 29: “Fighting terror by day, supermodels by night” (& Sign of the times)

* Video dispatch 30: How to play chess when you’re an ISIS prisoner (& Escape from Boko Haram)

* Video dispatch 31: Incitement to kill

* Video Dispatch 32: Bibi to BBC: “Are we living on the same planet?” (& other videos)

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