Media bias against Israel a scandal

I am appalled by the news organizations condemning Israel for its attacks on the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas operating in Gaza. Have these folks been asleep the last few years? Where were they when rockets smuggled into Gaza from Egypt were launched into Israeli neighborhoods?

Have they read the Hamas charter that binds every Muslim to jihad, which is defined as an endless state of war against Israel so long as one Jew remains alive?

Don’t they know that radical militants, who don’t stand a chance against the Israeli military, are simply using them to inflame world opinion against Israel, a nation that wants only to be left alone in the homeland granted to them by the UN in 1948?

Let me add one more ghastly piece of legislation recently enacted by Hamas that has nothing to do with Israel, and everything to do with its own people:

"Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza, having decided that stoning young girls to death is not brutal enough, enacted a law recently adding crucifixion to its list of punishments that already include hand amputation and whipping. Public decapitation for gays and rape victims (that’s right – victims) wasn't bad enough. Now they can look forward to being nailed to a cross and left hanging in agony until they suffocate to death." (This description and legislation appeared on the Al Arabiya web site http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/12/24/62699.html.)

The legislation goes on to authorize “Koranic punishments, including hand amputation, corporal punishment and (other forms of) execution. Drinking, owning or producing wine is punished by 40 lashes, while drinking in public adds three months imprisonment. Several laws are directed against Hamas' Palestinian rivals, including a law intended to inhibit non-Hamas negotiators, by sentencing to death anyone who is 'appointed to negotiate with a foreign government on a Palestinian issue and negotiated against Palestinian interests.'”

There's a word for Hamas and Hamas-type organizations -- uncivilized. They are living in the 5th century when infidels -- non-Muslims -- and Muslim apostates were routinely killed. Think about this the next time you read the New York Times or any other newspaper or television commentator wailing about Israel defending its homeland.

The media don’t tell you that Israel goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Israel's military could wipe Gaza off the map with little danger to its own soldiers; it chooses to warn Palestinian civilians they are coming after Hamas and that they should leave.

For their part, Hamas militants have hidden in civilian neighborhoods. They shoot rockets from Palestinian schoolyards in an effort to entice Israeli soldiers to respond. Hamas knows that dead or maimed children make excellent footage for TV camera crews looking for a story. Renegade soldiers who crucify girls or chop hands off children could care less about civilian casualties.

I don’t know about you, but I’m weary of the anti-Jewish bias in the American press. I can’t prove it but I think the media know Israel is supported militarily and economically by the United States, and that anything Israel does to advance its own interests advances American interests too

Could it be the media oppose what’s best for this country nationally and throughout the world? Careful readers of the news can form their own opinion. The only conflict is between Israelis and the thoroughly uncivilized and brutal Hamas terrorists.

Truth be known, the media could save thousands of lives by simply reporting news and leaving advocacy to others. But they do not, and that's a shame. It's also why media as we know it today will disappear one newspaper at a time until all that's left is the Internet, and that's a shame too.