Opuscula Coin has two sides, Major media gives One & ignores other

THE OTHER DAY I READ that Hamas, the despotic rulers in Gaza, want to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC)¹ because Israeli forces used live ammunition against Gazans attempting to infiltrate Israel to kill Israelis (Jews, Christians, Muslims, sans discrimination).

Hamas wants the ICC to believe that it is harmless and helpless against the Israeli army.

Yet

• It digs tunnels into Israel to murder Israelis² (it also build tunnels into Egypt³)
• It sends explosive-laden drones over Israel⁴
• It uses kites (shades of the WW 2 Japanese balloon attacks on the U.S. west coast⁵) with incendiary devices attached to destroy Israeli farmers’ fields and, where possible, the farmers’ homes.⁶

In the later case, Israel is seeking relief from the ICC.

Although Gandhi would surely disagree⁷ ("The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs, the Babylonian Talmud states: If a man comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first ⁸, with attention to footnote 18

The leftists and media, in Israel and elsewhere, generally align with Gandhi, even his quote, addressing the English, to give up the fight against Hitler and Mussolini: 'Let them take possession of your beautiful island ... allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered. He also did not believe that women should resist rape, but preferred that they should 'defeat' their assailants by remaining passive and silent(ibid.) That last comment probably would not sit well with the ladies of any political point of view.

It is well to remember that, with military aid from the U.S., England kept its island; meanwhile, in Gandhi’s India, abuse of women is the biggest human rights violation on Earth.⁹

Israelis, save for the leftists, and the Muslims in the nation’s Knesset (congress), refuse to follow Gandhi’s admonishments to offer themselves to the (“Palestinian”/Hamas) butcher’s knife, even as much of the world condemns the nation for defending itself.

The media will provide half the story, but don’t depend on it to tell the whole story.

A fellow reporter, “back in the day.” reported almost daily on the city’s street lighting project. He was a good reporter, but the editor had to often remind him that he had to provide the background for the day’s update; tell the readers the whole story (albeit in encapsulated form).

Today’s media only goes as deep as a headline; the “news” is a photo caption under an image that may, or may not, be faked.¹⁰

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Sources

1. http://tinyurl.com/yceun7vq

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3. http://tinyurl.com/yd25omt4

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7. http://tinyurl.com/yc2bb2r2 , http://tinyurl.com/y7yr8uec

8. http://tinyurl.com/y7zx9s6v

9. http://tinyurl.com/yccjhvrd

10. http://tinyurl.com/y8smbj29 , http://tinyurl.com/y784h9mw

PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.

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