Two Wars, Same Story

Early in the war sparked by the ineffably sadistic carnage of Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023 invasion, a Gaza hospital suffered an explosion caused by ordnance. International IslamoNazi sympathizers gleefully jumped all over the Jewish state, relishing an opportunity to show the inhumanity of one of the planet’s most humane nations. The percussive cacophony accused the Jewish-majority state of war crimes and genocide. Deliberate, accidental, who cared?! It was Israel bashing time once more. Oh, happy days are here again. The death toll climbed faster than you could say Mehdi Assan-- 40, 50, 200, 500, 900. Going once, going twice, SOLD! Jew-hating Israelophobic propaganda brought to you by the Hamas auctioneers. In the face of irrefutable proof, Hamas admitted an own goal, a failed rocket hit their own hospital. The Hamas official death toll dropped faster than a hippo tied to a bungee cord; 50 became the new 900.  

        A short time into the war against Iran, media began reporting a girls school was bombed by the US or, if you were al Jazeera, Israel. The death toll was reported around 175 female students killed.     

 Wash, rinse, repeat.

The Minab school incident evinced the lack of journalistic standards in today’s reporting on anything in the Mideast.  Given the decades long buildup of an Islamist propaganda network to overwhelm the news with their own narrative, very similar to the Republican conservative model begun in the ion70s, one would think real journalists would cast suspicion on initial reports from IslamoNazi sources –especially from the at-war-with-the West terre de couer du terrorisme, Iran.

 The issue is the process, not whether the initial reporting proved correct,. News media flushed their outlets with the Iranian death count, information received without the newsperson’s skeptical eye. In the Gaza hospital incident and the wider war, we know Hamas inflated casualty numbers by including everyone who died regardless of cause or time. The reality was ignored for the better story of blaming Israel for bombing a hospital and a three digit death count. The Iranian figures were absent reliable confirming evidence, breakdowns of the casualties, circumstances and background story. In the case of the Al-Ahli Gaza hospital, the media. remained steadfastly skeptical of Israeli disclaimers. The media grudgingly reported the truth, licking its wounds and waiting for revenge.

 When Trump stated an Iranian missile hit the Minab school, the media chorus shouted “Prove it!” Good for them—but where was that backbone when the US/Israel was accused?  

It took days for news media to note the school building’s active military history and its location on the base. This was the segue to evince negative reaction to Trump, Israel, and the war. “Why didn’t the US know it was a school?”  came the accusatory posit. Well, why didn’t you, the press, try to find out by investigating?  TGBL believes they didn’t want to know. If it were found to still be used for military purposes of any kind, it would then become a legitimate target, regardless if it fronted as a school. Their drama ballon filled with indignation would go boom as if struck by an IED—and a good anti-Trump, anti-Israel narrative blows up.

Not one reporter or commentator asked another relevant question: If there was a war going on, why would the school still conduct classes on prime real estate for targeting?  Instead of digging for an answer, the media took a page out of the lawyer’s playbook: Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to. The  Iranians  co-opted Hamas’ education  rule number one—dead kids, especially girls,  make terrific propaganda against Little Satan and Big Satan. This was the answer they didn’t want to know.