Hamas – The Attackers Are Martyrs; On Social Media, Calls For Intifada In Jerusalem

In recent days several terrorist attacks have taken place in the Jerusalem and Hebron area: a stabbing in Hebron in which a border police officer was moderately wounded, an attempted stabbing of a female police officer at the Al-Za'im checkpoint, a firebomb attack on the Jerusalem-Modi'in road, and a vehicular attack in Al-Tur in East Jerusalem in which three police officers were injured. In addition, there were riots and clashes between residents and security forces in East Jerusalem.    

The Palestinian Authority (PA) reacted to the stabbing incidents, in which both stabbers were killed, by condemning Israel. It claimed that the stabbings had been fabricated by Israel to justify the "racially motivated assassination" of the two Palestinians, and Fatah described the killing of Abu Ghannam as an act of "organized terror". Hamas, for its part, praised the attacks.

Voices on Palestinian social media likewise welcomed the attacks, praised their perpetrators and called to escalate the armed struggle against Israel and to launch a comprehensive intifada. Most of these calls did not come from figures or bodies associated with official Palestinian organizations. Rather, they appear to be calls by private individuals urging an uprising and expressing support for the attacks, which had likewise been perpetrated by single individuals acting on their own, without direction from any organization.


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The Mulish Media and Civilian Casualties in Gaza

Each and every time, without fail, when escalating Palestinian violence provokes a large-scale Israeli response, the media and "human rights" activists portray Israeli military actions as indiscriminate and reckless, mainly harming Palestinian civilians, especially women and children. It is remarkable how intractable the media and its acolytes are in the face of emerging evidence refuting their favored motif that Palestinian civilians account for the bulk of the victims.
During the Cast Lead operation (Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009) and Protective Edge, the 50 day conflict between Israel and Hamas during the Summer of 2014, the media accepted without hesitation the fatality tallies provided by the U.N., even though the UN relies on the information provided by a terrorist entity, Hamas, that is a party to the conflict and has an obvious interest in misrepresenting the make-up of these fatalities. It is a curious thing, that so much credence is given to figures provided by a terrorist organization with a poor record of accountability, while contradictory figures from Israel, a country with a proven record of conducting independent investigations, are dismissed.
Both in 2009 and 2014, even as hostilities flared, information provided by the Palestinians themselves cast doubt on the claims that civilians made up the vast majority of fatalities. In both cases, independent Israeli organizations conducted investigations of the identities of the listed fatalities by the Palestinians. A study by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center disclosed that more than half of those killed in the 2014 conflict, for whom sufficient information existed to categorize their status, were identifiable as members of terrorist organizations or participants in the hostilities. To avoid the accusation of partisanship, the Center's report exhaustively catalogs each individual, showing the evidence of their participation in the hostilities and affiliation with terrorist groups.
Yet, on April 28, 2015 when major news organizations carried the story of a released U.N. report investigating the deaths occurring in and around shelters administered by UN agencies, virtually every story cited the UN figure that 70% of the deaths were civilians, or established that civilians made up most of the dead.
The unwillingness of the media to invest the time to scrutinize and incorporate newer information and then self-correct is a persistent problem that underscores CAMERA's mission to hold it accountable.

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