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How to Avoid Manipulation When Reading Coverage of Hamas Attacks on Israel
Summary from AllSides News Team
The Hamas militant group’s attacks on Israel over the weekend killed at least 700 people, and remain the world’s biggest story as Israel’s response has killed at least 500 people in the Gaza Strip. Here’s how U.S. media is covering it differently.
Preparation: Some left- and center-rated sources focused on reports that Israel was unprepared for the assault and that its authorities are scrambling to track down kidnapping victims. Right-rated sources focused less on that angle. Many across the spectrum highlighted sources who suggested Iran helped Hamas coordinate the attacks.
Attacks and Response: Many sources highlighted details of kidnappings, murders, and sexual assaults of Israelis by Hamas. Many also prominently covered Israel ordering a “complete siege” of Gaza, with some left-rated sources highlighting poverty in Gaza, the potential civilian death toll, and reports of a surge of support for Palestine across the Middle East. Some right-rated outlets focused on how the attacks may spell trouble for the Biden administration.
Militants or Terrorists? Right-rated sources usually referred to Hamas as a terror group and the attacks as terrorism. Left- and center-rated sources didn’t, and instead used the term “militants.”
Why the Differences?: The American left is generally more sympathetic toward Palestine and views Israel as oppressive. The American right tends to side with Israel against what they see as extremism in Gaza. Read more about this divide from our RedBlue Translator.
Israelis rush back from U.S. to join the fighting
Noy Leyb, opened a WhatsApp group to help IDF reservists around the world find a way home.
He himself managed to get on an El Al flight overnight, having paid $2500, an exceptionally high price. “My dad told me I was nuts to come but there is no question in my mind,” he said. “I am a Zionist and there is no way that my friends would be there and I would not, no matter the financial cost.”
Yotam Avrahami, a businessman from New York said it took him all of 10 minutes to decide he must get back and join the fighting. “I grew up 50 minutes from Gaza. I have a wife, a seven-month-old baby girl a full operation and customers but I am setting all of them aside to get back,” he said.
Avrahami is a reservist in the Armored Corps and spent hours searching for a flight sooner than the one available later on Sunday. “That’s too late,” he says. “My crew is there, and I have friends who are officers and need people.
“The Israeli community in New York organized quickly, making arrangements to host Israelis stuck in the city because of flight cancellations. They organized a meeting to offer support in the Jewis
How Terrorists Got Into Israel Highlights a Terrifying Fact About the U.S. Border
The Gaza Strip is 25 miles long. The U.S. southern border with Mexico is 1954 miles long and it’s wide open. The U.S. border with Canada is 5,525 miles and largely unguarded.
Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, more than two million individuals have entered the country as “gotaways.”
The more than seven million illegal immigrants who have entered the country and processed by Border Patrol have not been vetted.
We know nearly 400 individuals on the terrorist watch list have been apprehended attempting to enter and the FBI is currently looking for potential members of an ISIS terrorist ring that was smuggled into the country.
Mark Morgan to Newsmax: Border Chaos Could Hide Incoming ‘Terrorist Cells’
Morgan said that the idea of having people come across the border without being vetted, that we know nothing about is not a national security risk, is “not being honest” with the American people.
“Think about it. If a single adult male from Serbia comes across our border, do you think we’re getting their history from Serbia,” he said. “Of course, that’s not happening.”
Former Homeland Security Department adviser Charles Marino, who joined Morgan on the broadcast, said that security is directly tied to how tightly controlled a country’s border is.
“I think it shows the importance of not just border control on land, but at sea, and what happens in the skies above,” Marino said. “We’ve seen incursions in all of those areas be allowed to take place here in the United States. We saw it in the air with the Chinese spy balloon. We see what’s going on in the land, and we know that we’ve had incursions from countries like Russia and others in the seas. So, you know this needs to be robust 360-degree border security. No country is sovereign without its secure borders, and no country is safe without secure borders.”
Crips Gang Member Arrested in Human Smuggling Attempt During Traffic Stop
‘Both of You Pissed Me Off!’: Arizona Deputy Blasts Two Drivers for Road Raging
School Bus Driver Attempts to Meet with Minor, Gets Greeted by Police
On May 11, 2023, police in Wausau, WI initiated an investigation involving a 65-year-old individual who communicated with an undercover Facebook profile, unaware that it was controlled by an undercover officer posing as a 15-year-old boy.
Two days later, the man eventually agreed to meet at a prearranged location and was welcomed by officers. He later revealed during an interview that he works as a school bus driver.
PHOTOS: Democratic Socialists of America Cheer Palestinian Terror in New York
The DSA, which counts four Democratic members of Congress as members — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Jamaal Bowman (NY), and Cori Bush (MO) — rallied in the heart of a city that was targeted by Islamic terrorists two decades ago.
There were similar rallies held by radical left-wing groups in other cities, such as San Francisco:
In New York, pro-Hamas DSA demonstrators were met with a large group of pro-Israel counter-demonstrators:
In one image that has gone viral, a protester held up a swastika to taunt pro-Israel counter-demonstrators — many of whom were Jewish.
Christian baker faces new lawsuit over gender-transition cake after Supreme Court
Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, declined to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding in a move that sparked a 2012 lawsuit that ultimately landed him at the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2018, the nine justices ruled that the state of Colorado was hostile to Phillip’s religious beliefs and that the government can’t force anyone to create custom works of art that communicate a message.
But in 2018, Phillips faced a second lawsuit, this time from a transgender lawyer who requested a cake celebrating a gender transition.
When Phillips declined, he was back in court on grounds that he discriminated against the lawyer. The Colorado Supreme Court just agreed to hear his case.
Jake Warner, attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) defending Phillips, said that the lawsuit from the beginning was “clearly a set-up” with the intent of “targeting” Phillips and his beliefs.
3 students arrested for high school hit lists, authorities say
Associate Schools Superintendent Paul Abbatinozzi said the families of the students targeted in the lists have been notified.
He said the number consists of five or six students.
The investigation began on Friday last week after someone who had seen the group’s text messages went to the administration at Creekside High School.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office got involved after.
Sheriff Robert Hardwick said evidence of the hit lists was found on the students’ cell phones.
According to arrest reports, the three students were part of a Russian communist group they had formed due to being bullied, calling it the United Boyopolis Socialist Republic.
Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Charged with Stabbing Schoolmate to Death on New York City Bus
Officials believe the killing, which occurred in the town of Eltingville on Staten Island, was possibly gang related.
The New York Police Department has charged the boy with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the heinous act, according to multiple reports. The boy’s identity has not been released by authorities.
Police have identified the victim as Syles Ular, 13.
Police: Ohio Social Worker Had Sex with 13-Year-Old Boy She Was Counseling
On Friday, the Columbus Division of Police SWAT team arrested 24-year-old Payton H. Shires whom police say used to work for the National Youth Advocate Program, WBNS reported Friday.
Charges against her came after the teenager’s mother notified law enforcement on September 27 once she found texts between her child and the suspect.
The WBNS report continued:
In the messages, Shires allegedly asked the teen if he had “deleted the videos,” and if his mother had “seen the videos or messages.” The teen’s mother turned the phone over to the officers who responded to the call.
World News.
Supernova festival: How massacre unfolded from verified video and social media
According to some accounts, there were up to 4,000 people in attendance. From the footage, they appear to be mostly under 30.
They had gathered in a remote area of southern Israel for the Supernova festival – an event that had promised dance, music, art and drinks at a secret location.
Ticket holders were told, nearer the time, to head to a site north of the Re’im kibbutz, about 6km (3.7 miles) east of Gaza. The party’s organisers promised a “journey of unity and love”.
List of Killings in
the Name of Islam:
Last 30 Days
This is part of the list of killings in the name of Islam maintained by TheReligionofPeace.com.
Most of these incidents are terror attacks. A handful are honor killings or Sharia executions.
During this time period, there were 103 Islamic attacks in 22 countries, in which 1199 people were killed and 2645 injured.
Over 100 Bodies Uncovered in Single Israeli Village After Hamas Massacre
The remains were discovered in Be’eri, or Bari, a kibbutz in southern Israel close to Gaza. It’s one of the villages Hamas militants invaded on Saturday as they began their attack on the country.
“Today the volunteers entered Kibbutz Bari and it is impossible to explain in words the terrible sights – some were adults, some were children. These are horrors that cannot be grasped in the mind or soul,” a spokesperson for Zaka search and rescue told IDF radio.
Israeli Mother Recounts Chilling Encounter With Hamas Terrorists: ‘Puddles of Blood Everywhere’
Unconfirmed reports note that approximately 1,000 Israelis have been killed, 2,500 have been injured, and 200 were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.
Many of the kidnapped were taken into Gaza territory via motorcycles.
Amid scores of stories profiling the brutal and indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of civilians, the New York Post reported a story of an Israeli mother who evaded Hamas terrorists and escaped with her two children.
The heroic mother is Avital Aldjem. Her neighborhood was overrun in the early hours of the incursion. Terrorists went door to door, executing and kidnapping civilians.
Israel at war following Hamas’ massacre of Israelis; Northern tensions escalate TV7 Israel News 9.10
1) Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel – murdering hundreds of civilians.
2) Jerusalem declares war – pledging to exterminate the Islamist Hamas organization.
3) The United States deploys the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Eastern Mediterranean – warning Hezbollah not to join the war against Israel.
FOX News shows scene of Hamas massacre along highway
FOX News’ Trey Yingst speaks to Maj. Doron Spielman of the IDF near the Israel-Gaza border, where Israeli civilians were killed and others abducted. (WARNING: This footage contains graphic content.)
LIVE NOW: Hezbollah threatens retaliation for deadly border flare-up; Gaza rockets bombard south
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.
Hamas threatens to begin executing hostages in response to strikes
The Hamas terror group is threatening to begin executing hostages in response to Israeli strikes in Gaza carried out without warnings, the spokesperson for Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades says, according to Gaza’s Shehab news outlet.
“From this hour, any targeting of our people in the safety of their homes, without warning, will be met with the execution of civilian hostages, which will be broadcast with video and audio,” says the spokesperson, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida.
A defense official reportedly told Knesset members in a briefing earlier in the day that Israel was not dropping dummy bombs on roofs of buildings set to be targeted, meant to warn civilians to flee.
***Live Updates*** Israel Orders ‘Complete Siege’ of Gaza Strip Following Hamas Terror Attack
Israel reveals scope of overnight siege on Gaza Strip, says more than 500 targets struck
In a series of social media posts, the Israeli Air Force provided some details, including saying that one of the numerous multi-story buildings that was hit was the “residence of Ruhi Mashtaa, secretary of the Hamas and part of the organization’s decision-making group,” which “contained a Hamas terror command center, from which he helped direct the infiltration into Israel.”
“Seven Hamas command centers and an Islamic Jihad command center were struck,” the Israeli Air Force said.
“A building that was operationally used by a senior operative of the Hamas terrorist organization’s naval forces was also targeted.”
“Two Hamas operational assets were struck by an aircraft, one of them was located inside a mosque,” they added. “An Islamic Jihad asset located in a building in which terrorists operate and live was also targeted.”
Border with Lebanon breached, infiltrators neutralized by IDF; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility
(Photo: JALAA MAREY / AFP)
The Israel Defense Forces reported that two mortars were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Monday afternoon, activating warning sirens in the towns of Iftach and Ramot Naftali in the Upper Galilee region.
According to the military, one of the projectiles landed harmlessly in an open area within Israel, resulting in no injuries.
The second projectile, however, fell short of its target and landed in Lebanese territory.
In addition, a group of four terrorists detonated an explosive charge to open a hole in the Israel-Lebanon border fence, near Kibbutz Adamit, and entered Israeli terrotory.
The IDF sent a Special Forces detail to eliminate the threat, simultaneously dispatching an attack helicopter to survey the area from above.
The threat was neutralized, with one of the infiltrators reportedly fleeing back to Lebanese territory. Hezbollah denied that it was involved in the incident, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility.
IDF Takes Territory Back from Hamas Invaders, but 100 Israelis Hostage, Long Fight to Come
JERUSALEM, Israel – More than 48 hours after Hamas’s invasion on October 7th, the IDF spokesman says although Israeli forces have regained control of all Gaza border towns, it’s still possible that some Hamas terrorists are still lurking inside the country.
The IDF deployed four divisions to the south to expel Hamas operatives from Israeli soil. Israeli warplanes are carrying out widespread strikes on Hamas targets and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday ordered a “complete closure” of the Gaza Strip.
“No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel” will be allowed into the coastal enclave, Gallant said. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
Israel Daily News – October 09, 2023
Day 3 of Swords of Iron begins with a spike in kidnapping and death tolls, as the world protests in support of the appalling bloodshed, and actor Nate Buzolic breaks the false narratives down. And much more.
Families of Israelis feared kidnapped by Hamas terrorists speak out: ‘We’re at home waiting to hug you’
Most of those interviewed by Fox News Digital said they believed their relatives – mothers, fathers, children and cousins – were being held by the terrorist group Hamas inside the Gaza Strip. Many of them based their suspicions on photographs and videos uploaded to social media by the Islamist group and all of them said they had heard nothing from Israeli authorities or international groups about the whereabouts of their family members.
They all appealed for the help from groups such as United Nations, the International Red Cross and others to offer them some information about their fate.
Here are some of their stories [these interviews have been edited for clarity].
MAJOR ESCALATION’: Long-range rockets reportedly fired towards Jerusalem
FOX News’ Trey Yingst reports the latest from the frontlines in Israel’s battle against Hamas.
Politics.
Biden silent on nine Americans killed in Israeli attacks
President Biden on Monday did not address the deaths of at least nine American citizens among the 900 Israelis slaughtered when Hamas militants attacked Israel on Saturday.
Mr. Biden hasn’t made any public appearances since Saturday when he delivered a roughly three-minute speech on the situation without taking questions. He had no public events on Sunday or Monday but did host a private barbecue at the White House on Sunday afternoon.
On Monday, authorities confirmed that at least nine Americans were among the growing number of dead in Israel.
With the federal government closed Monday for the Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday, there are no White House events scheduled.
The White House called a “lid” Monday before noon, meaning Mr. Biden won’t be seen or heard from for the rest of the day. A lid is a notice to reporters covering the White House that the president won’t make any more news that day.
Democrat Torres Slams ‘Squad’ Members on Israel
A Democrat lawmaker condemned colleagues who took a pro-Hamas stance after the weekend terrorist attack in Israel.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., on Sunday criticized fellow Democrat Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. — both members of a progressive House group sometimes called the “Squad” — for saying that conditions in Israel led to “resistance” by Hamas.
“Shame on anyone who glorifies as ‘resistance’ the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust,” Torres said, the Jewish Insider reported.
RFK Jr. Announces ‘Independent’ Candidacy, Slams Corrupt Two Party System
Top Democrats: Bus Surplus Migrants to Red States
Pritzker’s call to bus migrants — whom he calls “folks” — to other cities comes as Democrats keep complaining about the Republican governors who bussed migrants to northern cities to help showcase Biden’s pro-migration policy.
Leaders in many Democratic-run cities, such as New York, Boston, Denver, Colo., and San Diego, Calif., are alarmed at the arrival of more poor migrants from the southern border.
They are alarmed because Americans are increasingly aware that migration is a pocketbook disaster because cuts their wages, spikes inflation, drives up rents, shrinks housing, crowds schools, and diverts federal attention and aid away from their children to Biden’s illegal migrants.
School District Paid Thousands to Organization Linked to Merrick Garland for Surveys Asking Kids Their Feelings About Race
The district paid Panorama Education, an education software company founded by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law, Xan Tanner, a total of $64,573 for the surveys, an annual membership fee and a professional development workshop for the 2023-2024 school year, according to documents obtained by PDE and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The survey goes over a number of topics about school climate, including a section titled “Feelings About School,” which has students answer how often their teacher pushes them to think about race and ethnicity, ranging from “almost never” to “almost always.”
“How often do teachers encourage you to learn about people from different races, ethnicities, or cultures,” the survey reads. “How often do you think about what someone of a different race, ethnicity, or culture experiences?”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill that Would Have Decriminalized Psychedelic Mushrooms
The legislation vetoed Saturday would have allowed those 21 and older to possess psilocybin, the hallucinogenic component in what’s known as psychedelic mushrooms. It also would have covered dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and mescaline.
The bill would not have legalized the sale of the substances and would have barred any possession of the substances on school grounds. Instead, it would have ensured people are neither arrested nor prosecuted for possessing limited amounts of plant-based hallucinogens.
Newsom, a Democrat who championed legalizing cannabis in 2016, said in a statement Saturday that more needs to be done before California decriminalizes the hallucinogens.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Law Requiring Big Businesses to Disclose Emissions
The law requires more than 5,300 companies that operate in California and make more than $1 billion in annual revenues to report both their direct and indirect emissions.
That includes things like emissions from operating a building or store as well as those from activities like employee business travel and transporting their products.
California has made major strides to set trends on climate policy in recent years. The state has set out to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, expand renewable energy and limit rail pollution. By 2030, the state plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below what they were in 1990.
This was Democratic State Sen. Scott Wiener’s third attempt to get the sweeping emissions disclosure rules passed in California.
Last year, it passed in the Senate but came up short in the State Assembly. Wiener said the new emissions information will be useful for consumers, investors and lawmakers.
Progressive Dem slams ‘reprehensible and repulsive’ response to Hamas attack on Israel after ‘Squad’ remarks
“U.S. aid to Israel is and should be unconditional, and never more so than in this moment of critical need,” Torres said, according to Capitol Hill reporter Marc Rod. “Congress must act decisively to provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself in the face of unprecedented terrorism.”
The lawmaker continued: “Shame on anyone who glorifies as ‘resistance’ the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. It is reprehensible and repulsive.”
The comment came after two members of the group of far-left House members known as the “Squad” appeared to blame Israel for being attacked, calling for an end to U.S. aid to the Jewish state.
Mark Levin: We have an appeaser in the Oval Office
Life, Liberty & Levin’ host Mark Levin on the ongoing war in Israel and calls out the Biden administration for providing support to Iran prior to the attacks
Commentary.
Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War
There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both.
Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.
In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.
Note one common theme of these horrific videos of the murdering of young women: the bloodthirst of the Gaza crowd. There appears a natural desire of everyday Gazans to video the mutilations, an embrace of the spitting on the doomed, a frenzied effort to mutilate the dead—and the absence of a single Gazan objecting to the group murder of a civilian.
Hamas did not act out of the ordinary, but in sync with its people. In truth, there is something so terribly wrong in Gaza that the United States should keep as far away as it can from such barbarity—and hope that it too feels the same about America and keeps to itself.
So again why did Hamas mount such a long-planned and multifaceted assault on Israeli towns, public buildings, soldiers, and civilians?
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