Progressive Democrats are calling
for an immediate cease fire when it
comes to of course,
the airstrikes that the Israeli
government continues to do on Gaza.
The number of civilian deaths has
shot up, and even though Biden has
increased his calls for
a ceasefire.
He's really doing it privately.
He's not really being aggressive
about it.
And there are consequences to that.
Now, when we began covering
the current violence,
we made sure to let you guys know
how that violence began.
Why is it that this conflict which
was largely dormant all of a sudden
became as violent as it is.
As violent as we're seeing today.
Well, I will remind you all of what
started it.
But before I do, I'm going to show
you an example of how a journalist
or so called journalists,
it's television cable news anchor
frames the question inaccurately.
I bring you, Jake Tapper, and
his question to progressive
Democrat Pramila Jaya Paul.
>> You are calling for an immediate
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas,
let me ask you a question, because
you've been critical of Israel.
What do you think the appropriate
response for
the Israeli government's in
military should be given that this
particular military conflict
began 10 days ago with Hamas firing
rockets indiscriminately at Israeli
civilians.
>> No, no, this conflict did not
start 10 days ago with Hamas
indiscriminately firing rockets.
That is not true.
It is not true.
You should watch the full
interview to get a sense of what
Pramila Jayapal had to say.
But for the purposes of this story,
I want to focus on Jake Tapper's,
inaccurate propaganda
framing of that question.
Because it did not start ten days
ago, it didn't.
It didn't. And honestly,
you don't even have to do much
research to figure out why it is
that the violence has
gotten to the point that it has.
Why there is so much aggression by
the Israeli government toward
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip?
If you guys need me to remind you
all in fact, if Jake Tapper,
a cable news anchor with unlimited
resources needs me who works for
an independent news show to inform
him about how this recent conflict
started.
I'll go ahead and do it.
You know, in fact.
Let me go ahead and
rely on a mainstream media outlet
to help me to bolster the argument
that I'm trying to make here.
Let's hear what CBS News had
to say about how this more recent
conflict started.
>> This all began almost a month
ago, when especially young
Palestinians were angered
by Israeli limits on Ramadan gas.
But now since the beginning of
Ramadan, they have escalated to
the point of absolute provocation
for Palestinians everywhere.
>> Adding fuel to the fire is
the planned eviction of several
Palestinian families from homes
in East Jerusalem that the Israeli
courts have ruled belong to Jews.
>> So, this actually started
a month ago during
the month of Ramadan,
where Benjamin Netanyahu who has
failed to form a new government and
is facing criminal corruption
charges decided to deflect from
those issues to maintain power.
And the way that he did it was by
stoking tensions and essentially
limiting the religious practices
of Palestinians in Israel.
That's what he did,
that's how it started.
And that report fails to mention
that Israeli forces raided
the Al Aqsa Mosque several times.
That's also a relevant portion of
this story that was so conveniently
left out by Jake Tapper and the
ridiculous framing of his question.
So we need to be factual in how we
cover this.
Is Hamas
firing rockets into Israel?
Yes.
Is that the same as what
the Israeli government and
the IDF is doing right now?
No, both sides are not equal.
Both sides are absolutely
not equal.
We're dealing with Israel which has
an incredibly sophisticated, well
funded military with incredible
military and defense capabilities.
And then you're looking at Gaza,
which democratically elected Hamas,
whether you like it or not.
And Hamas does not have the same
military capabilities.
It does not have the same weaponry,
and it certainly doesn't have
the same international support
that Israel has.
Doesn't have the same
American support,
that's for sure, that Israel has.
So we need to call spade a spade.
We need to be factual about what's
happening on the ground.
That framing was pure propaganda.
It was a lie.
I don't know if it was intentional.
I don't know if it was a mistake.
But what I do know, is that what
you see in that interview in
the framing of that question,
is a continuation,
of this legacy media narrative of
what's happening in Israel,
in Gaza, in the West Bank.
We need to stop pretending as if
everything starts with aggression
by Hamas.
And the fact that Palestinian,
Palestinian citizens of Israel
are being evicted from the homes
that they've lived in for decades.
That's a relevant part of
the story, isn't it?
The fact that Jake Tapper just
erased that reality and the framing
of his question is telling.