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The Media's Shameful Attempt to Humanize Terrorists, Downplay Israeli Victims
(National Post-Canada) Avi Benlolo - How do you turn terrorists into victims and victims into terrorists? Look at the international media's treatment of Hizbullah and Hamas. Last week, the Associated Press (AP) published a photo essay on the "human toll" of Israel's precision pager attack on Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon and laments the injuries suffered mainly by those who were actively engaged in a terror campaign against the Jewish state. For nearly a year, Hizbullah rained down rockets on Israeli towns, displacing more than 60,000 civilians from their homes in Israel's north. These Israelis were abandoned by the world and erased by the very journalists who now empathize with Hizbullah. On Sept. 17, 2024, after almost a year of constant aggression, Israel responded with a targeted strike using "pager bombs" that incapacitated dozens of Hizbullah operatives and ultimately eliminated the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The pager attack, and the brief war that followed, were successful in halting Hizbullah's rockets. Where is the international media's coverage of the Israeli victims? What of the thousands who were evacuated from their homes, the wounded IDF soldiers now learning to walk with prosthetic limbs after stepping on improvised explosive devices in Gaza or the Israeli hostages who are still being held by Hamas in inhumane conditions? Recently, a German newspaper revealed that Hamas had staged propaganda photos of Gazans holding empty pots - images that were published by major outlets. Professional photographers, some affiliated with major international news agencies, directed the civilians in these staged photos to simulate starvation.