Qatar is one of the world's richest countries, if not the richest. Qatar owns Al Jazeera, one of the largest media conglomorates in the world.
Al Jazeera reaches millions of people.
It is not necessary to like or to defend Israel.
However, if there will be a resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian Arab conflict, it will not be acheived by demonizing Israelis. It will not be achieved by manipulating or hiding the truth. It will not be achieved by inspiring people to hate, regardless of how one feels about Jews or Israelis, or anyone else.
Al Jazeera shows a Hamas video about the attack against Israel, which glorifies the attack as a military victory.
Al Jazeera does not show the truth about the attack. It does not show the many videos, including videos taken by Hamas themselves, of Hamas killing defenseless Israeli civilians. It does not show the strong evidence that the missile strike in a Gaza hospital parking lot, killing many innocent civilians, including children, was fired by an islamic Jihad missile that fell short. It does not show the reasons why Israel is attacking Gaza, as though it is Israel, not Hamas, that started this bloody, completely senseless and unnecessary war.
Hundreds of millions of people do not know the truth. They only see what Al Jazeera wants them to see.
The border between Israel and Gaza was poorly guarded. At some point, there will have to be an accounting in Israel for this massive failure to properly protect the civilian communities near Gaza.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad easily broke through the poorly guarded border.
It is what they did next that matters.
If they attacked military outposts and then retreated to Gaza with military prisoners after inflicting damage, that would have been a military victory.
But they did not.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad then went into civilian communites and murdered entire families. They burned people alive in their homes. They shot unarmed civilians point blank range. They raped women.
They killed, kidnapped and raped hundreds of defenseless civilians attending a music festival.
They kidnapped hundreds of civilians, from babies to old women in their nineties, and brought them back to Gaza.
They raped, wounded, murdered, tortured, beheaded, burned alive, kidnapped thousands of civilians for no other reason than that they are Jews.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of witnesses and survivors of the atrocities. There are hundreds upon hundreds, if not thousands, of witnesses to the aftermath of the bloodbath. They saw murdered babies, murdered families, murdered defenseless civilians of all ages, disabled and able bodied. It has all been well documented.
One reporter for Al Jazeera asserts that any claims about beheadings are propaganda, and merely Israeli and United States propaganda, despite making no effort to see the evidence. She completely ignored the mass murders, rapes, kidnappings of defenseles civilians. Apparantly, in her eyes, the kidnapped, now in Gaza, including one year old babies, little children, young women held captive and God only knows what is being done to them, old women, defenseless men and women, just magically arrived in Gaza.
Unlike some other media outlets, most far less wealthy than Al Jazeera, that actually interviewed Israeli survivors, Al Jazeera makes no effort to do so.
It only wants to spin a narrative of demonic Israelis.
Demonizing a people leads to hate, violence, murder and atrocities.
A number of Hamas leaders live like kings in Qatar. Life is good in rich Qatar for Hamas leaders that led thousands of their underlings to kill, rape, torture and kidnap in Israel, and then retreat to gaza to hide behind the civilians of Gaza.
Qatar does not mind bringing in millions of foreign workers from poor countries, where many are exploited. Are any actual workers from Gaza in Qatar, or only the well fed, pampered Hamas officials who have never worked a day in their life and spend their time advocating for the murder of Jews?
There will never be a light shown on Qatar, and if there is, it will be dim and brief. Qatar is more than happy to keep the world enraged against Israel. It keeps all eyes away from themselves.
Demonizing Israel attracks audiences. Millions of people have been, and still are, being slaughtered in the killing fields of Yemen, Syria, Myanmar, Central African Republic, Darfur in the Sudan, Somalia and elsewhere. All of these mass killing and atrocities are ignored. If there is not a way to blame and demonize Israel or the Jew, few to no one cares. Al Jazeera helps make sure to keep it that way.
The bridges that need to be built between Israelis and Palestinians Arabs will never happen as long as those that keep hate and demonizing alive have the upper hand. The only alternative to bridges is war. The only alternative to getting people to see and treat each other as fellow human beings is war.
Watch for yourself the Al Jazeera coverage of this conflict and everything else they cover about Israel, and ask, does Qatar, does Al Jazeera, build bridges? Is it a peacemaker or is it a propagandist that helps keep alive hate, demonizing and war?
If it is the latter, then Israel needs to ask itself, why are they there in Israel?
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