{"id":4006,"date":"2008-08-24T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2008-08-24T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T08:29:06","slug":"why-wasnt-hamas-invited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4006","title":{"rendered":"Why Wasn&#8217;t Hamas Invited?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seraphicpress.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/wall_to_wall_bl.php\">Robert J. Avrech writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a certain amount of carefully orchestrated controversy swirling round the NBNFIJBC.<\/p>\n<p><em>Backstory:<\/em> A notorious apologist for Muslim terror whispered to Haaretz&mdash;duh&mdash;that the conference was made up of right wing religious nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Some Haaretz hack&mdash;redundancy, I know&mdash;published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1009650.html\">an article<\/a>, half of which were lies and the other half not true. To gauge the radical leftist slant of the article, get this: the Haaretz author ID&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/bogieworks.blogs.com\/treppenwitz\/\">Treppenwitz<\/a> as a resident of &ldquo;Efrat, in the West Bank.&rdquo; However, the Haaretz piece nowhere mentions the cities where other bloggers reside.<\/p>\n<p>Subtext: Treppenwitz is an evil settler, therefore nothing he says can be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>A not so clever blood libel.<\/p>\n<p>Haaretz writer will say:<\/p>\n<p><em>I stand by my piece.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or:<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ll let my readers decide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The playbook of intellectual collapse and dishonesty.<\/p>\n<p>There is no such thing as journalistic objectivity. A writer\/journalist\/whatever stakes out specific ideological territory as soon as he <em>chooses<\/em> his subject matter. All the rest are details to support the writer&#8217;s political world-view.<\/p>\n<p>The Haaretz piece does not qualify as journalism. It&#8217;s a disgrace, a wretched hack job written by a tool of the Israeli left, apologists for Arab terror. The writer should be fired so he can gain employment with Hamas or the PA, pumping out anti-Jewish propaganda, his true calling.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bogieworks.blogs.com\/treppenwitz\/2008\/08\/so-yeah-the-ang.html\"><br \/>\nTreppenwitz details the entire gruesome drama here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. Avrech writes: There&#8217;s been a certain amount of carefully orchestrated controversy swirling round the NBNFIJBC. Backstory: A notorious apologist for Muslim terror whispered to Haaretz&mdash;duh&mdash;that the conference was made up of right wing religious nuts. Some Haaretz hack&mdash;redundancy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[11673,11670,11671,2840,11672,11501],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robert-j-avrech","tag-author-id","tag-blood-libel","tag-hack-job","tag-journalistic-objectivity","tag-religious-nuts","tag-treppenwitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}