Palestinian Distortion of Stabbings Finally Gets Israeli Mainstream Media Attention

In my last posts, I have been focusing on how the Palestinians media perceive the stabbings of Jews by Palestinians. I devoted two posts to the Afula attempted stabbing by an Arab woman, who was unsuccessful in her stabbing attempt and was shot in the legs by security personnel to neutralize her. I also devoted one post to the explosion of a car carrying gas canisters and incendiary materials driven by an Arab woman. It is true that these were small incidents (and involved no fatalities) in the current large wave of Palestinian Terror that is sweeping Israel in which Jews (including innocent women and children) are being targeted by Palestinian terrorists;  my intention is to show how the blatantly terrorist event is perceived by the Palestinian propaganda machine and how it is explained to Palestinians and the world media.

I have purposely taken micro events because they are more manageable for a blog such as this. We have seen that the Palestinian media and Arab Members of the Knesset invert the facts so that the 'victim' is the Palestinian knifer/terrorist and the Jewish victim becomes 'the aggressor'. Ahmed Tibi persistently shouts 'we are the victims'. He knows that the media is the message; the victim and underdog automatically generates sympathy.

Thus, Israeli Arab members of Knesset and Palestinians call shooting a stabber in the legs murder, even though no one was killed. A policeman who was doing his job (he stopped the car because there was a traffic violation; he didn't know it was being driven by an Arab) and was a good Samaritan and wanted to put out the fire in the Arab woman's car (he didn't know she was a terrorist intending to blow up her car) is described as preventing the woman from getting out of the car with her child (there was no child). The Palestinian news agency Ma'an had no problem printing the detailed account of an anonymous Palestinian 'witness'. (How are you going to argue with someone that's anonymous?).

In the Palestinian propaganda war, facts have only marginal importance and a picture that can be 'interpreted' for their own propaganda and political purposes is the primary exhibit of their so-called 'truth'.

I was happy to see that Ynet is finally beginning to pay some attention to how Palestinian propaganda is distorting the facts. The truth is the mainstream media coverage of this important issue for Israel is rather thin. If you are interested in detailed examples of distorted and malicious Palestinian propaganda, see Palestine Media Watch here.

Palestinians Say Wounding Afula Female Terrorist is 'Murder' - Follow-up

On October 9, Assara Zidan, a single mom who studies at a local college and is separated from her husband, entered the Central Bus Station of Afula, a major town in Israel's Jezreel Valley region, and near one of the bus platforms, screamed and drew a knife on a soldier. Security personnel shot her in the legs to bring her down when she refused to drop her knife.
After the video was uploaded to the Internet, the pro-Palestinian talkbackers 'interpreted' the video as showing the lady holding her hands up trying to surrender, and the cruel Israelis shooting her.
Well, sorry dear talkbackers, even the Israeli Palestinian leadership doesn't buy the 'holding up her hands, trying to surrender' business (see below).
The Palestinian leadership, however, does indeed claim that it was a 'cold-blooded shooting' with intent to 'murder' (see my earlier post).
On October 11, journalist Attila Somfalvi interviewed Dr Basel Ghattas a member of Balad party and currently serving as a member of the Israeli Knesset for the Arab Joint List alliance.
Consider the following exchange (edited because of shouting and simultaneous overtalk). You can listen to the original here):

Dr Basel Ghattas: Whoever shoots with intent to kill ... police officers shot a young woman in Afula, even if she has a knife in her hand ... shot to kill ...
Attila Somfalvi: They shot her in her feet. She held a knife in her hand and tried to stab a soldier.
Dr. Basel Ghattas: For this you have to kill her.
Attila Somfalvi: She was not killed. She is being treated in a hospital.

Masud Ghnaim and Ahmed Tibi are also part of this chorus, as are others.

And so the lies are propagated, morphing relentlessly into a Palestinian 'narrative' that bears little resemblance to what actually happened and magnifying a distorted bogeyman of Israel and Jews as an object of hatred and rage.