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The Associated Press has been blasted (lol) for claiming it had no clue Hamas militants rented office space at the news agency’s Gaza headquarters that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike.
“We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building,” AP president and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement. “This is something we actively check to the best of our ability. We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk.”
However, a 2014 article in The Atlantic described a questionable history between the news agency and Hamas.
“When Hamas’s leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press,” Matti Friedman wrote.
“The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby — and the AP wouldn’t report it,” he wrote.
Israel told Biden regime officials that Hamas was operating out of the al-Jalaa Tower.
Biden spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, a discussion that included the bombing of the building, and Israel showed Biden and other US officials the intelligence behind their decision, the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/ap-slammed-for-claiming-it-was-unaware-of-hamas-presence/
Bigdog (05-17-2021), cancel2 2022 (05-17-2021)
Bigdog (05-17-2021), cancel2 2022 (05-17-2021), Grumpy (05-17-2021)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Bigdog (05-18-2021)
Hamas was the government in the area so its not like they would be out of place in that building.
Oh yeah do you know why the AP and others chose that building? Its because its tall enough to be able to see all the bombs exploding etc.
Any idiot would see its value as a natural vantage point.
I dont even understand the controversy. It would be stranger if Hamas werent there.
cancel2 2022 (05-17-2021)
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
Drummie123 (05-20-2021)
no worries (05-18-2021)
The fascist Izraelis fucked up by demolishing the media headquarters. Their excuses are derisory- as is this embarrassingly cringe-worthy thread.
Incidentally, your ' Guys on the third floor ' mash-up depicts Mossad agents dressing up.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
I've got both hummus and tabouli in my building,
In my case, though, it's Reuters who has people hanging around.
May as well be fucking paparazzi.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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