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George Shay's avatar

One of the most frustrating aspects of the situation for those of us who support Israel is what comes out of Haaretz. It's not surprising to me that its founders came out of the USSR. A good deal of what it publishes sounds like Russian/Hamas propaganda.

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Pete Ross's avatar

Teddy Kollek was British spy.

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George Shay's avatar

Hamas are the cowards. Murdering babies and pregnant women, taking infants hostage, hiding in their tunnels while putting milkionanthey Mb purportedly represent in harm’s way to generate propaganda, cowering on hospitals. They are evil incarnate, and to the extent you support them or even fail to condemn them, so are you.

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Yom Tov's avatar

Virtually no one in Israel reads Haaretz anymore because they recognize it for the propaganda rag that it is (even though the level of writing is above the other papers). It makes most of its money from the English language edition where it supplies anti-Israel material to Jew haters who can point to it and say--look, even Israeli papers are against Israel. The Times of Israel is not much better. They mainly hire people who have little idea about what is going on in Israel and most of their analyses are wildly inaccurate. If you want to know what is going on in English I suggest the English version of Yisrael Hayom

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Pete Ross's avatar

It only stays afloat cuz the Qatari Ikhwans purchase a million subscriptions

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Dena Tauber's avatar

I strongly agree with George Shay’s comment. I am appalled at what I see in Haaretz plenty of it appears to be reliant on Palestinian reporting.

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Jeremy Nathan Brown's avatar

Thank you John. Moving to your last point, 100%Trump should NOT have taken the 747 .. his response should have been, let’s get the job done .. Hamas out, hostages home, and gaza rid of jihad Islamism.

There’s plenty of talk of Saudi joining the Abraham accords, and now Syria has been mentioned.

BUT, there has been no mention of Qatar joining Trump’s Abraham accords. Well .. no surprise there.

Qatar are the founders and suppliers, with Iran and Turkey of Hamas. Qatar back the Muslim Brotherhood.

So a plea to POTUS & the American Authorities .. return the 747 until the job is done.

💙🇮🇱 🎗️🎗️

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John Matthews's avatar

Many thanks for the comments and likes. I see many names here I recognize, but to any that are not already subscribed to me, as the author of this article (and many more), I would warmly welcome your subscriptions (it's free).

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Steven Brizel's avatar

The Israeli "mainstream media" is worse than the American :mainstream media" in its coverage of all Israeli domestic and foreign political issues Times of Israel is Haaretz for Dummies

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Pete Ross's avatar

‘HaAretz’ is a foreign subversive NGO disguised as a newspaper.

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Daisy Moses Chief Crackpot's avatar

Haaretz just published Ehud Olmert accusin' Israel of war crimes (genocide....basically) an' the haters are havin' a field day. Good timin'.... (story is behind a paywall but with friends like this....)

(that said, I'm all fer a free press....even if they schtink)

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Bob Goldberg's avatar

Amalek is portrayed as the fraternal enemy in the Midrash, a primordial source of evil animated by a rage against the possessing and settling of the land of Israel. Amalek was and is the anti-Zionist Jew

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Daisy Moses Chief Crackpot's avatar

sad ta say it... yer 100% keerecht

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Gideon Miller's avatar

The silly criticism of Haaretz (or any other Israeli media outlet) completely misses the point. Israel like any other democracy has media with perspectives all over the map and thats a good thing, not a bad thing. The actual problem is the Israeli government, not the Israeli media - the Israeli government through unbelievable levels of incompetence and negligence has completely ceded the information battlefield to our enemies for literally decades. And the terrible results in terms of cratering public perception is exactly what one would expect when one side has spent decades investing heavily in an information war and the other side has done nothing.

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Al Mustafa's avatar

I couldn’t find AlJazeera clip of Hamas in hospital but found one of Palestinian telling AlJazeera reporter Hamas is hiding among the patients. The reporter cuts him off.

https://x.com/AimenDean/status/1724482751720485181

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Al Mustafa's avatar

The clip Al Jazeera aired and took down were you referring to the clip of Hamas taking refugees into hospital?

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Anonymous's avatar

Haaretz is the New York Times of Israel. That’s says everything you need to know about Haaretz. The New York Times hates the United States the same as Haaretz hates Israel.

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Ilana M.'s avatar

It is not new, has been for quite some time.

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Francine McMahon's avatar

Just read and listened this morning. Great piece. As a former media exec I really appreciate the insight!!

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Rick Miller's avatar

While not a fan of Haaretz, one of the main aspects of a democracy is the “Freedom of the Press” . Reporting inaccuracies is a cancer within all media and bias is bias. But, let’s at least applaud Israel that it has counterpoints, the ability to criticize itself and its government without fatal consequences as would be the case in nearly all Arab countries.

No different than Fox News vs. MSNBC in the US.

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