The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
The media co-conspirators with
the 'Palestinians'?
Steven Emerson
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Frontrunners Foiled Again
Donald slump-Trump and Hilly Clinton are still leading their respective presidential nomination contests, but they are the weakest frontrunners in recent history. slump-Trump certainly has deep and loyal backing, but it's not wide, and Clinton has only grudging support as the "inevitable" nominee. That was made more apparent when both were trounced in Wisconsin Tuesday. Clinton secured just 43% of the Wisconsin vote against Bernie Sanders, who won with 56% (he's now won seven of the last eight contests). slump-Trump garnered just 35% in a three-way field despite being the runaway favorite just a couple of weeks ago. Ted Cruz won 48% of the vote, and 36 of the Badger State's 42 delegates. John Kasich, who has won only his home state of Ohio, continues to siphon votes from both Cruz and slump-Trump in a bid to be kingmaker at what's increasingly likely to be a brokered GOP convention. Kasich surely kept Cruz from reaching 50% in Wisconsin, but he will also likely keep slump-Trump from doing so in the upcoming proportional states of New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. It's not clear that Cruz would benefit most from Kasich dropping out.
slump-Trump has yet to win 50% in any state, undercutting one of his prime arguments — that he's winning because he's winning. After his latest loss, his campaign was left to argue that Cruz is "worse than a puppet — he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. slump-Trump." That argument might have worked with Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush, but Ted Cruz? The ultimate thorn in the establishment's side?
Some prognosticators view Wisconsin as somewhat of a watershed moment in both races. Obviously, that remains to be seen because there's a long way to go.
Delegate count — Republican needs 1,237 to win (769 remain), Democrat needs 2,383 (1,977 remain):
Trump 739
Cruz 502
Rubio 171 (no longer running)
Kasich 143
Cruz 502
Rubio 171 (no longer running)
Kasich 143
Clinton 1,279 + 469 superdelegates
Sanders 1,027 + 31 superdelegates -The Patriot Post
Sanders 1,027 + 31 superdelegates -The Patriot Post
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500 Cuban Dissidents Jailed During nObama' Trip In December, Barack nObama asserted, "What I've said to the Cuban government is, if … we're seeing some progress in the liberty and freedom and possibilities of ordinary Cubans, I'd love to use a visit as a way of highlighting that progress." He added, "If we're going backwards, then there's not much reason for me to be there."
Well, he's both blind and naive. Just shortly after nObama concluded his trip to the communist enclave, a new report demonstrates just how callous is nObama. The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation says, "In the days of the historic and friendly visit to Cuba of President Barack nObama, the island's government, instead of ensuring an atmosphere of public tranquility, unleashed a true wave of political repression and uncounted intimidating actions." Here's what the commission found: More than 1,400 dissidents (a conservative estimate) were imprisoned in the month of March, 498 of whom were jailed while nObama was present.
Fox News interestingly notes: "The figure of 1,416 arrests, most of them lasting just hours, is one of the highest monthly totals registered in the past five years, exceeded only by the 1,447 arbitrary arrests recorded in November 2015." Is that what nObama calls "progress in the liberty and freedom and possibilities of ordinary Cubans"? No wonder the Cuban dictator tried raising the American dictator's hand. Because when it comes to Cuba, there's limp-wristed leadership on one side, and an iron-fist on the other. -The Patriot Post
The Rainbow Mafia's Corporate Hitmen
PayPal canceled its plans this week to create a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the state passed a law requiring people in the state to use the bathroom appropriate for the equipment God gave them. In doing so, the company joined the legions of other big corporations that have become hitmen for the Rainbow Mafia. More than 120 corporations have demanded that North Carolina repeal its bathroom law, a number unheard of nearly a decade ago, according to Washington Post columnist Jena McGregor. "Corporate America's evolution on gay rights appears to have reached a tipping point, one where so many companies have taken a stand on the issue that the risk of speaking out has been superseded by the risk of not doing so," McGregor wrote. "What was once exceptional has become, in other words, almost expected."4
These corporations wield real power to do the bidding of a tiny fraction of the population. It was the corporate influence sitting on the board of the Boy Scouts of America that overturned the scouts' longstanding ban on homosexuals serving as leaders. The mafia took out Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich for supporting traditional marriage in California, after having attempted to do likewise with Chick-fil-A. Such examples brought to heel big-brand monoliths like Disney, Apple, Time Warner, Intel, the NFL and the NCAA, which exerted enough pressure on Georgia Governor Nathan Deal that he vetoed the state's bill protecting religious liberty in the face of same-sex marriage policies. The businesses are hopping on board the homosexual agenda because they find it good for business. Rights, Liberty and the tolerance of diverse opinions don't matter when the irate leftist minority is threatening boycotts at every turn. -The Patriot Post
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Europe's Young ISIS Recruits: Should They
Stay or Should They Go?
Abigail R. Esman
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ For weeks, Farid Bouamran, a Dutch-Moroccan immigrant who has lived 30 years in Amsterdam, watched as his son Achraf became increasingly radicalized, tuning in to videos and Twitter accounts online... Within two months, Achraf had traded in his jeans for a dishdasha, or robe, grown a beard, and begun spending time online with Belgian youth his father once called "men with long Arabic names: Abou this and Abou that." Panicked, Bouamran took every measure he could think of to intervene: he brought Achraf to his own mosque to hear the imam speak of a peaceful Islam. He canceled his son's Internet account, forbid him to see his radical Muslim friends, and even followed him when he went out at night. It was no use. Just after Christmas 2013, Farid Bouamran sat in his living room with officers from Dutch intelligence agency AIVD and told them he believed Achraf was about to leave for Syria to join in the jihad. Please, he begged them. Take his passport. Stop him... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5277/europe-young-isis-recruits-should-they-stay-or
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State Department: Don’t Ask Hilly Aides About
Classified Info in Lawsuit
Shane Harris
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{thedailybeast.com} ~ Lawyers object to any attempt to ask Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and others about how information was handled—and are dead set against Clinton testifying... Lawyers for the State Department want to limit the types of questions that a watchdog group can ask former aides to Hilly Clinton, and potentially the former secretary of state herself, about her creation and use of a private email system while she was in office. The department asked a federal judge Tuesday night to grant “limited discovery” to Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that wants to depose some of Clinton’s closest associates and staffers... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/06/state-department-tries-to-limit-judicial-watch-questions-in-hillary-clinton-email-case.html?AID=7236
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Exclusive: Meet the Radical Lawyers the
DOJ Hired to Oversee Elections
Hans A. von Spakovsky & J. Christian Adams
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{pjmedia.com} ~ In 2011, PJ Media published the Every Single One series. The series documented the nObama administration’s hiring of ideologically leftist and partisan lawyers to fill the career ranks of the lawyers in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division from the day it came into office... The different sections of the Division exercise enormous power over the everyday lives of Americans, ranging from employment, education, housing, religious liberty, abortion, prisons, policing, and much, much more. If a president wanted to launch a radical transformation of the country, he would start it in the Civil Rights Division. And a radical transformation of American elections would begin in the Division’s Voting Section. That is precisely what the first Every Single One series showed was happening in the Voting Section. Perhaps the most damage the nObama Civil Rights Division has inflicted on the American constitutional fabric has been in elections. The lawyers in the Voting Section have waged an all-out assault on election integrity. Attacking Voter ID laws in Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania is just one example of how the Voting Section has tried to stop efforts to plug the vulnerabilities used by criminals to exploit American elections... https://pjmedia.com/blog/exclusive-meet-the-radical-lawyers-the-doj-hired-to-oversee-elections/
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Top Iranian General: Iran Preparing for
All-Out War With U.S.
Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari a gathering of senior IRGC commanders in Tehran Tuesday that Iran is preparing for all-out war with the United States and its allies... Jafari also boasted that the U.S. "would not be able to do a damned thing" about Iranian advances in its ballistic missile program, according to Israel National News: "For years, we have been building power on the presumption of a widespread war with the US and its allies, and have developed all our capacities and capabilities for decisive victories over such enemies."... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/top-iranian-general-iran-preparing-all-out-war-us
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NYC giving $10 MILLION to bigoted pro-jihad
hatemonger Linda Sarsour
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ The media adores the Islamic supremacist bigot and rabid anti-semite, Linda Sarsour. The Times did a puff piece on this annihilationist some time ago — what they’re puffing is anyone’s guess... I was surprised a quote of mine actually made it into the piece: Sarsour is an “anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist who wields her religion like a club.” Robert Spencer wrote, “Linda Sarsour is an energetic purveyor of the ‘Islamophobia’ myth, and has hysterically claimed that ‘Muslim kids’ are being ‘executed’ in the United States. She was instrumental in prevailing upon de Blasio to end legal and necessary surveillance in Muslim communities in New York. She is also a frequent visitor to the nObama White House, and has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam. She is a practiced exploiter of the ‘hate’ smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America. She is also an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘Palestinian’ jihad against Israel. Given the general support for that jihad among Leftists, and the hard-Left tilt of the de Blasio regime in New York, it is not surprising that her hate-filled endeavors are taxpayer funded. But it is scandalous nonetheless: a grim sign of the times.”... http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/nyc-giving-10-million-to-bigoted-pro-jihad-hatemonger-linda-sarsour.html/
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Survey Results: What is The Greatest
Warship of All Time?
Jonathan Hoppe
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USS Constitution is shown in a 1931 photograph shortly after her recommissioning in
July of that year after an extensive restoration
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{news.usni.org} ~ NI News asked its readers, “What is the greatest warship of all time and why?” Though what makes a warship great is highly subjective, our readers offered their education and expertise to put forth their ideas as to what the answer to that question should be... And with nearly 900 reader-generated answers and more than 26,000 votes, the results are in. The answers fell into several themes. Aircraft carriers, whose use in World War II revolutionized naval warfare and strategy, were the most common. Similarly, a common theme was the ships of the two World Wars and of specific navies such as the U. S. Navy and the Royal Navy. But one ship in particular unquestionably led the poll in all aspects: USS Constitution... https://news.usni.org/2016/04/06/survey-results-what-is-the-greatest-warship-of-all-time?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=52bc1466ac-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-52bc1466ac-231491269&mc_cid=52bc1466ac&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Note to Treasury: The problem is the corporate
tax rate, not inversions
Aparna Mathur
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{aei.org} ~ The new rules issued on Monday, by disregarding three years of U.S. acquisitions by the foreign company Allergan AGN +3.14%, effectively increased the ownership stake of U.S. shareholders... in the merged Pfizer PFE +4.35%-Allergan company to above 80%, thereby nullifying any tax advantage from the proposed deal. The two companies have since decided not to continue with the merger. While this may be viewed as a step to “make the system fair,” it is time to acknowledge that the U.S. corporate tax system is in many cases patently unfair to its own multinationals and places them at a competitive disadvantage against foreign rival companies that face significantly lower tax bills... http://www.aei.org/publication/note-to-treasury-the-problem-is-the-corporate-tax-rate-not-inversions/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=040716
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slump-Trump’s Polling Lead In New York Is As
Meaningless As His Lead In Pennsylvania
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{redstate.com} ~ After the repudiation Donald slump-Trump suffered at the hands of Wisconsin voters yesterday, slump-Trump supporters are screaming about voter fraud in a Wisconsin GOP primary? Really? Are you on drugs?... and chortling about regaining momentum in the upcoming primary contests in Pennsylvania and New York. This is just another exercise in self delusion. As I pointed out yesterday, 54 of Pennsylvania’s 71 delegates are not bound to any candidate at any time. They are complete free agents. It would be possible for slump-Trump to win a clear majority of the vote in Pennsylvania and only get 17 delegates. This is not merely theoretical. Given the abject incompetence of the slump-Trump campaign the overwhelming odds are that no matter what they win at the ballot box in terms of popular vote will not be converted into voting delegates. The next big goal for slump-Trump fans is New York and its 95 delegates. This is Donald slump-Trump’s home state and no one who has lost their home state in a primary stays in the race for long. But New York is not the given that slump-Trump fans seem to think it is and it certainly is not the Holy Grail that puts slump-Trump back in the driver’s seat heading toward the nomination... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/04/06/trumps-polling-lead-new-york-meaningless-lead-pennsylvania/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Washington Politicians Aren’t Telling
the Truth About Trade
Bryan Riley
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{dailysignal.com} ~ One of the most persistent myths about international trade is that American manufacturing workers can’t compete with foreign workers who are paid much less... That pessimistic view seemed to be confirmed earlier this year, when Carrier announced plans to move 2,100 jobs from Indianapolis to Mexico. Every time a U.S. manufacturing facility closes, it’s headline news. But here’s the part of the story many people never hear. Although Indiana is losing 2,100 jobs to Mexico, over 100,000 Hoosiers who work in manufacturing are employed by foreign-owned companies. Toyota is adding 300 jobs to its Princeton plant, Honda is adding 100 new jobs in Greensburg, and Subaru is adding 1,200 new jobs to its facility in Lafayette...
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Justice Depart Kept Public in
Dark About Iranian Hackers Until
After nObama’s Nuclear Deal
Riley Walters
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{dailysignal.com} ~ On March 24, the Department of Justice indicted seven Iranian hackers for two cyber-crimes. The charges result from the individuals’ attacks on U.S. bank websites and the breach of a New York dam’s control systems... Even though the indictment was just released to the public, it had originally been announced but then immediately sealed the same week the U.S. and Iran were implementing agreements regarding Iran’s nuclear program—in addition to negotiating the release of four American prisoners and compensation of $1.7 billion back to Iran. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch stated last week that “the Department of Justice is sending a powerful message: that they will not allow any individual, group, or nation to sabotage American financial institutions” and that the charges illustrate cyber-hacking or attacks of any sort will not be tolerated by the U.S. government...
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nObama Claims Power to
Make Illegal Immigrants Eligible
for Social Security, Disability
Terence P. Jeffrey
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Does the president of the United States have the power to unilaterally tell millions of individuals who are violating federal law that he will not enforce that law against them now... that they may continue to violate that law in the future and that he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which they are not currently eligible due to their unlawful status? Through Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, President Barack nObama is telling the Supreme Court exactly this right now. The solicitor general calls what nObama is doing "prosecutorial discretion." He argues that under this particular type of "prosecutorial discretion," the executive can make millions of people in this country illegally eligible for Social Security, disability and Medicare... He has totally lost his mind. http://cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/obama-claims-power-make-illegal-immigrants-eligible-social-security
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The media co-conspirators with
the 'Palestinians'?
Steven Emerson
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The willful blindness of the Western media and intellectual elites to Palestinian incitement and their hyper-focus on any incident they can use to portray Israel in a negative light were on abundant display last week when footage emerged of an Israel Defense Forces soldier shooting a wounded and disarmed Palestinian terrorist.
Since then, The New York Times and The Washington Post have run no fewer than 16 stories about the incident. This volume of coverage reinforces the patently mendacious Israel-is-evil "narrative" promoted by the mainstream media, the liberal elites in bed with Palestinian and jihadist killers, the demonstrably one-sided United Nations, and the sanctimonious rants of several congressional leaders who claim they are speaking out in the name of human rights.
Meanwhile, these same news outlets consistently fail to speak out against the massive and ongoing denial of human rights, suppression of basic freedoms and daily torture meted out to any Palestinian dissident by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Many of these violations have been investigated and documented in horrific detail by the courageous Palestinian human rights advocate Bassam Eid.
No, the "narrative" does not allow mainstream news outlets to file negative reports on Palestinian human rights violations, their rampant corruption, and most importantly, their massive incitement to terrorist violence, which is being promoted by the very leadership of the Palestinian Authority. This includes vile lessons in how to kill Jews, taught in U.S.-sponsored Palestinian schools and universities, and instructional videos on stabbing and murdering Jews being shown to thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren.
The latest incident to manifest the "narrative" took place on March 24, when two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron stabbed an Israeli soldier. Soldiers then shot them in self defense, killing one and leaving the other critically wounded and lying on the ground. Video of the incident taken by an activist belonging to the left-wing group B'Tselem showed an IDF soldier shooting the wounded Palestinian in the head, in clear violation of military rules. The IDF says it intends to seek manslaughter charges.
The shooting took place in the midst of a six-month wave of terrorist attacks by Palestinians, who have been attacking Israeli civilians at random, not just in the West Bank, but throughout Israel. Palestinians have slaughtered at least 34 Israelis -- stabbing them to death in stores, in synagogues, in their apartments and on the street, and ramming them to death with their cars. Daring to step out onto the street almost anywhere in Israel has become a game of Russian roulette these days.
The B'Tselem footage went viral and sparked a major debate in Israel. The attention that the two newspapers have given to this story rivals the attention they have given to major, far more lethal, terror attacks, clearly demonstrating their anti-Israel bias. They have disproportionately played up the support for the soldier among the Israeli public, minimizing the significant number of Israelis who, according to polls, condemn this soldier's actions. More egregiously, they have disproportionately underreported the massive anti-Israeli incitement that the Palestinian Authority government, educational institutions and media have engaged in for years -- especially these last six months -- that helped incite these terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
Make no mistake. This is the real scandal: the deliberate suppression of this news that is vital to an informed public.
Contrary to what the Western media would have us believe, particularly in light of the torrent of stories in the Post and Times, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF unreservedly condemned the soldier's actions from the moment it was reported to them.
"What happened in Hebron does not represent the values of the Israel Defense Forces," Netanyahu said on the day of the shooting. "The IDF expects its soldiers to behave level-headedly and in accordance with the rules of engagement."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon likewise condemned the shooting: "Even when our blood is boiling, we must not allow such a loss of sense, such a loss of control. ... Woe to us if we act contrary to our moral values and our conscience."
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz stated: "The chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot views the incident with severity and has ordered a full probe. This is not the IDF, these are not the values of the IDF and these are not the values of the Jewish people."
Yet instead of giving equal attention to these condemnations, the Times and Post have continued to play up the support within Israel for the soldier, who has claimed in his defense that he feared the wounded Palestinian was wearing a suicide vest and still posed a threat. Worldwide media coverage -- led by the two newspapers -- has faithfully followed the "narrative" in portraying Israel as violating all the norms of civilized nations regarding warfare.
In reality, the IDF is one of the most moral armies in the world, a fact attested to in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge by the widely respected former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, retired Col. Richard Kemp.
Since then, The New York Times and The Washington Post have run no fewer than 16 stories about the incident. This volume of coverage reinforces the patently mendacious Israel-is-evil "narrative" promoted by the mainstream media, the liberal elites in bed with Palestinian and jihadist killers, the demonstrably one-sided United Nations, and the sanctimonious rants of several congressional leaders who claim they are speaking out in the name of human rights.
Meanwhile, these same news outlets consistently fail to speak out against the massive and ongoing denial of human rights, suppression of basic freedoms and daily torture meted out to any Palestinian dissident by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Many of these violations have been investigated and documented in horrific detail by the courageous Palestinian human rights advocate Bassam Eid.
No, the "narrative" does not allow mainstream news outlets to file negative reports on Palestinian human rights violations, their rampant corruption, and most importantly, their massive incitement to terrorist violence, which is being promoted by the very leadership of the Palestinian Authority. This includes vile lessons in how to kill Jews, taught in U.S.-sponsored Palestinian schools and universities, and instructional videos on stabbing and murdering Jews being shown to thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren.
The latest incident to manifest the "narrative" took place on March 24, when two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron stabbed an Israeli soldier. Soldiers then shot them in self defense, killing one and leaving the other critically wounded and lying on the ground. Video of the incident taken by an activist belonging to the left-wing group B'Tselem showed an IDF soldier shooting the wounded Palestinian in the head, in clear violation of military rules. The IDF says it intends to seek manslaughter charges.
The shooting took place in the midst of a six-month wave of terrorist attacks by Palestinians, who have been attacking Israeli civilians at random, not just in the West Bank, but throughout Israel. Palestinians have slaughtered at least 34 Israelis -- stabbing them to death in stores, in synagogues, in their apartments and on the street, and ramming them to death with their cars. Daring to step out onto the street almost anywhere in Israel has become a game of Russian roulette these days.
The B'Tselem footage went viral and sparked a major debate in Israel. The attention that the two newspapers have given to this story rivals the attention they have given to major, far more lethal, terror attacks, clearly demonstrating their anti-Israel bias. They have disproportionately played up the support for the soldier among the Israeli public, minimizing the significant number of Israelis who, according to polls, condemn this soldier's actions. More egregiously, they have disproportionately underreported the massive anti-Israeli incitement that the Palestinian Authority government, educational institutions and media have engaged in for years -- especially these last six months -- that helped incite these terror attacks against Israeli civilians.
Make no mistake. This is the real scandal: the deliberate suppression of this news that is vital to an informed public.
Contrary to what the Western media would have us believe, particularly in light of the torrent of stories in the Post and Times, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF unreservedly condemned the soldier's actions from the moment it was reported to them.
"What happened in Hebron does not represent the values of the Israel Defense Forces," Netanyahu said on the day of the shooting. "The IDF expects its soldiers to behave level-headedly and in accordance with the rules of engagement."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon likewise condemned the shooting: "Even when our blood is boiling, we must not allow such a loss of sense, such a loss of control. ... Woe to us if we act contrary to our moral values and our conscience."
IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz stated: "The chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot views the incident with severity and has ordered a full probe. This is not the IDF, these are not the values of the IDF and these are not the values of the Jewish people."
Yet instead of giving equal attention to these condemnations, the Times and Post have continued to play up the support within Israel for the soldier, who has claimed in his defense that he feared the wounded Palestinian was wearing a suicide vest and still posed a threat. Worldwide media coverage -- led by the two newspapers -- has faithfully followed the "narrative" in portraying Israel as violating all the norms of civilized nations regarding warfare.
In reality, the IDF is one of the most moral armies in the world, a fact attested to in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge by the widely respected former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, retired Col. Richard Kemp.
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