New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently
reposted
a preposterous NPR claim meant to make Israel look bad in its war against
Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
The NPR report stated in part: “A
Jordanian official says 30,000 trucks are backed up at the main border crossing
with Egypt, waiting for Israeli approval to enter.”
So Kristof, fully in the grips of IDS
(Israel Derangement Syndrome), took to ‘X’ to repost this and note: .@janearraf
of @NPR quotes a Jordanian official as saying that 30,000 aid trucks are stuck
at the Egypt/Gaza border, waiting for Israeli approval to enter Gaza, with some
Jordanian trucks stuck there for the last two months. Meanwhile, Gaza kids
starve.
Social media critics like John Greenburg
pointed out the absurdity of such statements. Greenburg calculated that 30,000
relief trucks would occupy 271 miles of roadway. (For comparison, Israel itself
is 263 miles long and 71 miles wide.) We’d be treated to incessant aerial views
of this relief truck traffic jam were it remotely true. The truth is that
Israel has done more than any other nation in the history of urban warfare to
limit “innocent” civilian casualties. As I have noted—several times-- previously,
the mainstream media has become a shameless purveyor of lies, and, as such,
truly an enemy of the people.
The
mainstream Media: Fact free news! Now with extra bias!
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