There has been concern within the Biden administration that a pause in fighting in Gaza will give journalists the opportunity to expose more of the atrocities Israel has been committing, POLITICO reported on Tuesday.
The concern was related to the hostage deal that was reached between Israel and Hamas that, if implemented, will include a four-day pause in the Israeli bombardment and ground campaign.
The report said there was “some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.”
Israel’s Gaza campaign has had an enormous toll on journalists. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 46 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israel since October 7. Other journalists have had their families slaughtered, including Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, who lost his wife, son, daughter, and grandson.
The killing of the Dahdouh family came around the same time Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked Qatar to tone down Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Gaza war over concerns about global public opinion on Israel. Al Jazeera is funded by Qatar but maintains it has editorial independence.
The Israeli onslaught has also made it impossible for Gaza’s Health Ministry to count the dead, depriving journalists of the ability to gauge the destruction by the number of killed. The current unconfirmed estimate puts the death toll over 14,000, but the latest confirmed number from the Health Ministry was 11,078, including over 4,500 children, which was issued on November 10.
President Biden previously accused the Palestinians of lying about the death toll when confronted about the massive civilian casualty rate. But since then, a senior State Department official said the true death toll is likely significantly higher than what the Health Ministry had been reporting, and that was before counting the dead became impossible.
Kind of late for that now, Mr. President. The proverbial cat is out of the bag……
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.” – Luke 8:17
Well, you may throw your rock, and hide your hand
Workin’ in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light
Great Johnny Cash song.
God was only talking about small sin like having sex or throwing rocks. If certain people commit genocide, all that is Not Applicable. Hence the handle: (NA)
Biden is something. He constantly worries out loud that the voters will find out the truth, the truth that might undermine his administration’s endorsement and underwriting (via weapons supplies and policies) of the ethnic cleansing exercise taking place in Gaza.
The man isn’t in a fog. The man is a fog – the fog of war.
The man can hardly put two sentences together and someone else writes his speaches.. I dobt he even grasps the situation.
His cold war credentials go back into the 1980’s. It’s all he is or ever has been. He’s living in that world, a fact not inconsistent with what you wrote.
So it goes……………..Mr. Joe hides the slaughter of children. Palestinian children
The pathological liars are worrying that their lies will be exposed.
Is there anything in the pause agreement that prevents Israel from banning or selectively targeting journalists?
No need, they’ll just blame Hamas.
Robert: Sounds like you know the drill, this is not your first rodeo, know the ropes, know the procedure, know the routine, know the score, understand the set-up, know what to do, you’re an old hand, know the ins and outs, know all the ins and outs, know one’s way around, and know what’s what. Except you forgot it was also Putin’s fault.
Yes of course, the unreconstructed Stalinist on his way to take Poland and the Baltics and found the Second USSR.
Thank you for remembering how evil Putin is for the war that we provoked and justified. …Sorry, I meant to say, we unprovoked and unjustified. Wait… (Oh hell,) you know what I mean. C’mon man!
… and how about the CCP Dictator who wants to uphold Washington’s “One China” policy, and the Ayatollah, supporter of baby beheading Hamas terrorists, who needs to be stopped from secretly not developing nukes, … .
The Neocon foreign policy establishment get their ideas from their vast reading of Marvel Comics.
Love you, man. Marvel comics are based on more evidence than Neocons.
You Strike Me as a MARVEL COMIC.
That same Putin who said, “Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains,” lest we forget…!
What a LOAD of SCHEET…….!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When he talks, he SCHEETS…!!!
Gotta love it…..
Putins FAULT for protecting the Russian People from NATO nukes on his border. He tried to get Stoltenburg to agree to NOT placing nuke missiles in Ukraine, but was rebuffed. Something like “we won’t negotiate what NATO can and won’t do with YOU.” So Putin let his military do the speaking!!!!!!!!! Does anyone hear him NOW…????? Should I also mention that Z- Man was shelling the folks who speak Russian in the East killing 1500 of them since the U.S. 2014 coup d’etat.
Seems to me that Putin had a lot of patience, probably too much before he foreclosed the NATO nukes & closed down the shelling.
I Feel for the Ukrainians most of whom are entirely innocent of U.S. WEAKEN Russia INSANITY. Just another failing NEOCON stupidity which has made Russia stronger by strongly allying with China. Senile Biden has made the unforced error of cementing the U.S.’s two most powerful adversaries into a position of dominance that the HAPLESS Nuland Neocons sought to achieve by means of attacking Russia and hectoring China, but have now gifted to the new dominant duo.
If President Biden was worried about his image, he could have insisted on pardoning the two million Palastinians who are getting liquidated in Gaza rather than a turkey. Alas, Biden chose the turkey. Well, at least now we Americans can watch the Aljazeera feed during the “Thanksgiving” day football game half time and gloat over the latest atrocity. Instead maybe we should observe the American Native’s day of mourning instead, and just stay home on Black Friday.
Hear! Hear! a consumer strike!
Do we still call today “Thanksgiving”? I thought it was just the day before Black Friday.
Thanks, I needed a laugh for today.
On Thanksgiving day, I’m thankful Israel and Biden are so nice. I’m thankful we’re not listening to the complaints from “the Committee to Protect Journalists, 46 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israel since October 7.” Why make this “complicated war” more complicated? God Forbid! (Sarcasm)
But as sure as God made black and white
What’s down in the dark will be brought to the light
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Abraham Lincoln
I like it best when I hear it from the mouth of Bob Marley! Get up, stand up…get up stand up lyrics https://g.co/kgs/GFNoGL
The neocon Biden administration is worried that allowing journalists access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there could turn public opinion on Israel.
What is that?
Has Israel become the 51st state without anybody knowing about it?
Is there one politician in Congress, especially in the Senate, who is not corrupt?
The political system itself is corrupt. Unrestricted capitalism can’t act differently. When huge money are concentrated in few individuals’ hands, they would always agree among themselves how to use those money for protection of their wealth. The only way to protect the wealth of the superrich is to create such a political system which will work for the superrich. That is exactly what happened in US. In China, for example, the power of the superrich is restricted and controlled by Communist Party of China. In Iran it is restricted and controlled by a religious organization. In Russia it is restricted by Putin and his team. By the way, that is the reason why Putin is so demonized in The West.
The report said there was “some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.”
This was said at the very end of that POLITICO piece. And as sickening as that was, the rest of the article is equally disturbing. It just tells how Biden’s policy in Gaza is working and is a vindication since there is now a hostage deal. Kind of like the Madelyn Albright “it was worth it” interview. Careful, don’t read it if you are prone to puking when you get upset.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/21/biden-hostage-israel-hamas-war-00128351
You read Politico? Are you a masochist? No, thank you. To me, it’s like digging into a pile of manure to find a disposable toothpick. It’s like brushing your hair while dunking your head in a clogged toilet. It’s like brushing your teeth with gasoline. It’s like having your teeth extracted without anesthesia. Need I go on? …Wait!? wut. You only read it so I don’t have to? I don’t believe you.
Only when it’s a link to an antiwar.com article. That’s why I gave the “puking” warning.
Turkey is about to intervene in Gaza…..1000 ship flotilla is heading to Gaza. If Israel murders Turkish nationals as they did in 2010 then its going to be a regional war.
BTW Turkey is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas is Sunni Islam, an outreach of the Muslim Brotherhood. Remind me again what branch of Islam Iran is? Thats right Shia Islam.
So when they tell us that Hamas is acting on behalf of Iran and you bomb them, its all a pack of lies. Nothing they tell us is the truth.
Exactly. Sites such as Antiwar should be highlighting the strong probability that Israel killed far more Israeli’s on Oct 7 than did Hamas. If 200 Hamas fighters were counted as Israeli dead that is a big clue as they would have been counted alongside dead Israeli’s. Don’t tell the same bullets and shells distinguished between the two.
“…Hamas is Sunni Islam, an outreach of the Muslim Brotherhood. Remind me again what branch of Islam Iran is? Thats right Shia Islam.”
Damn, that’s an excellent point – one that really should have come up way more in narratives on the subject of Hamas / IRI.
If not so that critics could point out the shia / sunni divide, AT LEAST by the US to loudly panick that a (very useful to so-called ‘Judeo-Christians’) schism keeping Islam from being united appears to be disappearing.
Chuck Harder pointed this out 30 years ago.
I hope to see it, but I don’t count on anything until it happens. Promises are just words.
The U.S. government is morally bankrupt. Filled with criminals. We need to use that word whenever we talk about our crooked leaders.
Blinken is a Zionist and has NO business working for the American People. It is for journalist to decide if they want to report from Gaza. I just hope they stay safe, so they can show the world the proof, of the Genocide of Palestinians by Israel.
Genocide Joe fears the light, like the cockroach he is.
Love you, Mark, but you’re wrong. He fears the light because he is a vampire. Can’t you see he even looks like a vampire? Also, why insult the cockroach? Sure, a cockroach would feed on genocide, but I never heard of any causing one.
But why insult the vampire? Did a vampire ever cause such a bloody massacre of a nation including babies in incubators?
You got me, brother!
He is both a cockroach and a vampire…!
Great answer.
He is dirty, he scuttles and sneaks about for hiding places, and he just won’t die no matter the vast damage we can see.
But yes, cockroaches only eat dead things, and the vampire kills them to enjoy the blood and bloodshed. So I’ll have to go with netman’s idea of “both.”
Makes sense 😁
How can it even be worse than what we already know? Genocide Joe is afraid journalists would tell on him? We don’t know how many people including children are buried in the ruins, but the Zionists can come up with worse when we think it is about as bad as it gets.
The IDF arrested the head of the Al Shifa hospital and others to interrogate them, suspecting him and the medical personnel to be terrorists. We are free to expect the worst.
Journalists on Al Jazeera have already been exposing the genocidal atrocities Israel is committing in Gaza.
The network and its reporters on the ground in Gaza deserve many Pulitzers for their heroic coverage of Israel’s massacre and the unfolding man made humanitarian disaster in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/
Some commentators elsewhere have noted that the reason the US has three aircraft carriers in the area and has been supplying materiel is to try to keep some influence on Israel to keep them from expanding the war to Lebanon and Syria. At best, the strategy is morally bankrupt and at worse an attempt to kickstart a war on Iran, or at least to have Tehran in range when Israel does it. All I know is that the US has poured fuel on the fire by doing literally less than nothing for decades to achieve any solution that considers Palestinians, and has brought the entire world to a knife’s edge.
Hard to come up with a comment with such intense revulsion is my dominate reaction. Perhaps I might include intellectual disdain of Israeli characterization of their hapless civilian hostages in their open air prison of Gaza as non human, was animals…????? If the Gazians are animals, what are their keepers who reign death down on them from the sky??
Humans without a moral orientation are just clever animals and no more than that. For Christians the moral orientation is Jesus Christ, for Muslims -Prophet Muhammad. For those who for some reason can’t accept Christ, Muhammad or Buddha as their moral leader, The Truth could serve as a moral orientation. Maybe that is enough. If people wouldn’t support the liars and never vote for the liars, maybe honest people come to the power. If it happens, it would be a great American revolution and that is what US needs.
No witnesses..
As long as Israel genocide continues, more journalists would find their way into Gaza and report IDF atrocities…!
Hey Hey Ho Ho Genocide Joe has got to go.
US foreign policy is decided by low IQ racist psychopaths.