The Media Are Hamas’s Greatest Weapon

Never in the field of human conflict was so much untruth given to so many readers by so many outlets. Over the past two years, the mainstream media have bent over backward to abet Hamas’s information war on Israel.

The latest example came on October 19, when the New York Times published a headline reading “Israel Strikes Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid, Saying Hamas Broke Truce.” The story also buried the lede in reporting that Israel had “accus[ed] Hamas of violating the truce by firing on its soldiers, killing two.” The last bit is true: the IDF lost two men at the hands of the terrorist group. But the NYT failed to report that the cease-fire was broken by Hamas.

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Daniel J. Samet

Daniel J. Samet is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much untruth given to so many readers by so many outlets. Over the past two years, the mainstream media have bent over backward to abet Hamas’s information war on Israel.

The latest example came on October 19, when the New York Times published a headline reading “Israel Strikes Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid, Saying Hamas Broke Truce.” The story also buried the lede in reporting that Israel had “accus[ed] Hamas of violating the truce by firing on its soldiers, killing two.” The last bit is true: the IDF lost two men at the hands of the terrorist group. But the NYT failed to report that the cease-fire was broken by Hamas.