Col. Kemp: “I Was in GAZA — Hamas Caused EVERY Death I Saw”

2 Comments / 2 Comments

1. DON’T ASK HIM ABOUT GENOCIDE:

   Never heard of Asa Kasher? That’s probably because major U.S. news media outlets have no interest in interviewing him about the situation in Gaza. Which may seem odd, since Kasher, a leftwing Israeli philosopher, is the author of the Israeli army’s rules of engagement. You would think that reporters for, say, the New York Times would want to know what he thinks about the “genocide” charge that has been hurled by Israel’s most extreme critics.

   Kasher certainly would appear to be better qualified to comment on the issue than Omer Bartov, the longtime critic of Israel who was recently invited by the Times to make the case for “genocide in Gaza” on its op-ed page. Yet Kasher has not been invited by the Times to discuss the “genocide” slur, either on its op-ed page or in its news articles.

   The problem, it appears, is that Kasher is a leftwing critic of the Israeli government who refuses to be part of the “genocide” echo chamber. Quite the opposite, in fact.

   On August 9, Kasher revealed to an Israeli media outlet, Kan Reshet Bet, that foreign media outlets have been sending him videos allegedly exposing misconduct by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. He said that he has received “hundreds” of such videos, and while some of them show individual “improper” acts (as occur in every war), they contain “not a single act that can be described as genocide.”

   Kasher’s remarks refuting the “genocide” claim have not been quoted by the international news media.

   What does it take to be quoted as an “expert” by a publication such as the New York Times? Well, it helps if you’re an official of the Israel Policy Forum, an organization that was created in 1993 as a support group for Israel’s Labor Party.

   Leaders of the Israel Policy Forum have been quoted in ten different news articles in the Times in the past three months alone. One IPF official, Shira Efron, was quoted in two different articles on the same day. In another article in the Times, Efron was described merely as “an expert on aid systems in Gaza,” without any mention of her IPF affiliation.

   Will Asa Kasher ever be interviewed by the Times about the “genocide in Gaza”? Not likely. What he has to say is not part of the news that fits the (anti-Israel) narrative.

   #GazaWar #MediaBias
   @followers

   Rafael Medow via Ardie Geldman on FB

   https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WTDtjuvLi9zWCtbet83XT4gvThKLs3obuCYpAmDuifoj6aRySzn898G4Tjsxc9tEl&id=100003735608743

   Log in to Reply

2. In his eulogy for George Washington after he passed away in 1799, Thomas Jefferson called Washington “a great and good man. Colonel Richard Kemp is one of the very few great and good men in the public sphere of our own time. He is truly a “voice crying out in the wilderness” of public discourse about Israel and her enemies.

   I wish he had talked about his observations and conversations when he visited Gaza in more detail.

   Log in to Reply