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Saturday, May 22, 2021

Press for talks to recognize a Palestinian state and Israel – The Militant

....Many liberals and middle-class radicals worldwide have responded by organizing actions in the U.S. and elsewhere echoing Hamas' anti-Semitic slogan, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a call for the destruction of Israel and driving Jews out. They've said nothing about the thousands of missiles launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad against civilians in Israeli cities and towns.

The liberal imperialist media has joined in the campaign against Israel. One example is particularly telling. When an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building said by the Israeli government to house a Hamas intelligence center along with offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, AP president and CEO Gary Pruitt claimed, "We have had no indication Hamas was in the building." (Israeli officials had alerted occupants an hour in advance, allowing them to get out before the building was hit.)

As far back as a 2014 article in the Atlantic  magazine, however, a former AP editor in Jerusalem reported that AP officials not only knew of the group's presence but also that Hamas fired rockets from right near the building but decided to report nothing about it....


https://themilitant.com/2021/05/22/press-for-talks-to-recognize-a-palestinian-state-and-israel/

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