Politics is ultimately about having a strong character. But the fact is that most politicians in the West don’t. They are slick operators, not leaders
Like a jury treating a juvenile shoplifter leniently if he’s raised by a pair of drug-addled petty crooks, I take the view that the world’s largest news organizations aren’t morally culpable for their warped Israel coverage. Their editors are too steeped in trendy hatred of the Jewish state to act differently.
Knowing that they’re incapable of making the fundamental distinction between a terror army and a democracy acting in self defense, I rarely get outraged when they fail to clear the lowest ethical bar.
Still, in a purely medical sense, it’s occasionally useful to examine some of the latest symptoms of Israel derangement. Such brain-rot as when the BBC’s head of news told staffers recently that the civilian wing of Hamas is really a bunch of impartial technocrats interested only in running a good civil service.
“It’s really important that we are clear that the Hamas-run government is different to being part of the military wing of Hamas,” said Deborah Turness.
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