Why I Am So Angry!

Shari Redstone, former CEO of Paramount - parent company of CBS

I don’t recall ever being so angry over the way Israel is being treated. Directly by world leaders, and mostly by implication from the media, I NEVER thought I would feel so much anti-Israel bias in the world - except from one ‘Shining City on the Hill’ – the US.

(Yes, I know the origin of that phrase, but as applied to the US it fits! We are a beacon of light unto the world. As our sole full support of Israel demonstrates. That so many are too blind to see that is their own fault! Thank you, Mr. President!) 

I’ve long recognized that bias has existed. Ever since Israel went from being a persecuted nation of refugees under fire from hostile and more powerful Arab nations, to becoming a superpower in the Middle East able to defeat its enemies even when attacked simultaneously. Which is what happened in 1967. Since then, Israel has been considered a first rate military power. Recognized as such by military experts in the US.

Once Israel achieved that distinction, it went from being seen as a vulnerable nation in danger of extinction to being condemned as a military occupier that mistreats vulnerable indigenous peoples under its jurisdiction.

To put it simply: Israel went from being the ‘good guys’ to  being the ‘bad guys’ the moment its military could defend it successfully .

Had the Arabs succeeded in 1967, the world would have lamented another Jewish Holocaust. Instead, because Israel triumphed Israel (read: the Jews) are now accused of perpetrating one. That’s when the animosity started. And it has been increasing ever since.

What angers me so much is that Hamas exaggerations and outright lies are swallowed whole by world leaders and the media. While Israel’s denials are ignored or dismissed as lies. The truth is lost in the fog of war - relying on Hamas lies, distortions, and exaggerations.

The latest falsehood is that Gaza City is now officially in famine. And that this humanitarian crisis is solely the result of Israel having turned much of Gaza into a parking lot, destroying Palestinians’ ability to get food. The implication is obvious. The media doesn’t have to say it. It’s Israel’s fault. They are the ones dropping bombs. They are ones that are supposed to be supplying food. And ‘obviously’ they are not!

Of course, world leaders deny that they’re blaming the Jews, insisting instead that it’s Israel’s conduct in a war led by a Prime Minister accused by the ICC of war crimes who is to blame.

But this ignores reality. Any mainstream Israeli leader would have declared war after October 7^th. The IDF would have bombed Hamas targets regardless of who was Prime Minister. One can argue that the war may now be dragging on too long. But that is a separate issue. It is Hamas that assured from the outset that there would be civilian casualties precisely in order to provoke world condemnation of Israel. And sadly, it’s not hard to get that from a world that less than 80 years ago was complicit in Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million Jews. The greatest single genocide in world history.

What makes me angriest is that, because of media spin based on their sole anti-Israel sources, the average American is led to believe these falsehoods and exaggerations .

What is never mentioned, however, is that if there really is famine, Hamas doesn’t care. They could end it in a heartbeat by returning the hostages they brutally took on October 7^th and laying down their arms. The moment they did that, the bloodshed would stop. The famine would be over. And Israel could turn Gaza over to responsible Arab leadership with the means to rebuild it into livable housing and eventually improve Palestinians’ standard of living by orders of magnitude.

Why should Israel cease fire in a war for survival, allowing Hamas to rebuild its terror tunnels and prepare for their next attempt at genocide? Why lay the sole responsibility at the feet of Israelis when Hamas could end it even more quickly?

And what about that accusation? Is there a famine in Gaza and is Israel starving them? Absolutely not!

Israel has been feeding Palestinians. Dozens of food drops have been carried out from the air. Since July, over 800 food trucks have entered Gaza - with a daily 10-hour pause in fighting to allow delivery without risk of being caught in crossfire. Israel has also worked with the US backed GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation), which has distributed hundreds of thousands of food packages to Palestinians since May.

The mainstream media has vilified the GHF based on unverified reports that the IDF and the former military personnel hired to administer distribution of GHF’s food packages - have shot innocent Palestinians desperate for food. Which both GHF and Israel have denied.

The mainstream media is so biased against Israel that this is one of the reasons Shari Redstone, the Jewish former CEO of Paramount (parent company of CBS),sold the company to Skydance Media.

The power of media influence is so strong it affects not only good Americans, but even many Jews. including at least one respected Orthodox rabbi who happens to be one of my heroes. Rabbi Yosef Blau has been swayed by images and narratives of bloodied bodies and emaciated Palestinian children. Scenes of women and children begging for food, and scenes of a uninhabitable wasteland destroyed by Israeli bombs. Land that was once dotted with homes and civilian infrastructure.

Who wouldn’t be moved by such pictures and narratives? What kind of human being wouldn’t demand ‘better’ from those portrayed as exclusively responsible for all that misery?

And yet, not a word is said about the simplest solution: Hamas could end any starvation immediately if they cared about their own people. But they don’t. All they care about is ridding the Jews from their land. If their own people starve to death - so be it. And if the world blames the Jews for that, all the better.

So as I said at the start, I have never been angrier at the injustices Israel is accused of.

I’m sick of it. Sick of the backward morality of a media that doesn’t realize how much it is being manipulated by true evil.

I completely reject the notion that it’s all Netanyahu’s fault. Or even Ben Gvir’s, or Smotrich’s fault. Despite my total rejection of their politics, it wasn’t them who murdered 1,200 Jews and kidnapped 250 hostages on October 7^th.They do not set policy of determine Israel’s war tactics. They aren’t even in the war cabinet!

The best thing the world can do for the Palestinians of Gaza is to stop blaming the Jews for all their problems, and in one unified voice demand that Hamas release the hostages immediately and leave Gaza. Once Hamas realizes that their PR tactic has finally backfired, they might actually respond. Especially with 80,000 Israeli troops poised to invade if they don’t.