Would you trust ‘The al-Qaida Ministry of Health’ or ‘The ISIS Ministry of Health?’
Why, Michael Oren wants to know, does The New York Times give equal credibility to Israel and to “The Gaza Ministry of Health” in its story on the Gaza hospital supposedly bombed by Israel? Everything in Gazan society is controlled by Hamas. It is a totalitarian regime. “The Gaza Ministry of Health” is, in fact, “The Hamas Ministry of Health.” Would you trust the killers, mutilators and abductors of Oct. 7 with casualty figures from Gaza?
Not to mention, where is the “health” in “The Hamas Ministry of Health?” Hamas starves its own people by diverting concrete from housing to military tunnels and fuel from hospitals to rockets. Hamas uses civilians in schools and mosques as human shields.
Where is the “health” in the Hamas Ministry of Health?
Why was its record of events on the allegedly bombed hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17 given the same credence by the NYT as Israel’s — and independent experts’ — record?
After the brutal and ghoulish massacre by Hamas in southern Israel on Oct. 7 — which (as the NYT knew and reported) Hamas gleefully took credit for — why could the NYT turn around and extend any credibility to the Hamas-controlled “Gaza Ministry of Health?”
Surely, the NYT would not deny that the Hamas’ Oct. 7 mass murder, in scope and method, was Nazi-like. What, then, is the difference between quoting “The Gaza Ministry of Health” and “The Nazi Health Ministry” in June, 1942, on a disputed version of the gas chambers?
We now know that the bombing of the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza wasn’t by Israel (it was by a Gaza terror organization, Islamic Jihad), it wasn’t a hospital (it was a parking lot), it wasn’t a bomb (it was a rocket), and it wasn’t 500 dead. Will an “Islamic Jihad Ministry of Health” now also be quoted to dispute these facts?
More questions for the NYT: Since it was not a hospital that was bombed, where did the picture of the supposedly bombed hospital that was printed come from? How were “500” dead tallied so quickly after the supposed bombing — something literally impossible? One can only conclude that the NYT attributed credibility to Hamas or other propaganda sources dressed up as a “Ministry of Health” of some other such humanitarian-sounding body.
In fact, the story of Israel bombing a Gaza hospital was simply another Hamas lie designed to dehumanize Israel and rally support for Hamas’ barbaric tactics.
An even more telling issue, whose address is far broader:
Why, when it was initially reported that Israel had killed 500 civilians, among them many children, was the outrage heard all around the Western world? But when it was reported a day later that it was not Israel that bombed a Gaza hospital, why were the dead children not so important anymore?
Not to mention, “The Gaza Ministry of Health” has since reported the number of casualties in the Oct. 17 strike on the Gaza hospital as under 500 and over 800. None of this is believable.
Bringing the point close to home, the Denver Post printed the picture of the supposedly bombed hospital on page 1, under a headline about Israel and Hamas trading blame, but in the next day’s edition, when the facts came out, there was no more story about the hospital or the dead children on page 1 or any other page; just a paragraph buried in a different,long story on a jump page. What happened to the outrage over the dead children?
One must conclude that if it’s possible that Israel killed the innocent children, then it’s news, but not so much if it is Islamic terrorists in Gaza who killed the children.
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