Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

It is obvious that your mind-set is that of hatred and nothing more. I did nothing to you so you can pipe your hate-speech down!

The best deal was brokered by the Clinton administration. Arafat turned it down.

Excellent video!

I don't have to defend myself from the likes of you!

Let's get our facts straight.

That's something you couldn't do in a thousand years..

I've nothing to do with facts that aren't.

The Western News Media’s Scripted Role

Of course, Hamas’ strategy, what Elie Wiesel characterizes as child sacrifice, can only work if it has the sustained cooperation of the international news media, which must fulfill two key tasks in the strategy: 1) broadcast to the outside world the suffering the conflict causes; and 2) implicitly or explicitly blame Israel for that suffering. Without the first, there is no sense of outrage and urgency. Without the second, the world might not intervene on the Jihadi side.

Hamas shows full cognizance of the media’s importance. It has even issued detailed directions to Gazan “social media activists.” And although Hamas addressed them to Palestinian social media activists, the guidelines clearly apply to their media “fixers,” who direct all the foreign journalists working in Gaza. One might call these directives the “Hamas media protocols.”

not to show Hamas fighters, certainly not firing from hospitals and schools;
to attribute all the casualties to Israeli attacks;
to call all dead “civilians”;
to give the statistics Hamas supplies as facts, emphasizing how the “vast majority” of casualties are civilian;
to show the face of Palestinian suffering 24-7;
to give voice—their own and those of invited guests—to indignation and outrage over the appalling carnage.

So consistently has the media played these scripted roles that it has become a mere pawn in a predictable game. Jeremy Bowen explains: every conflict plays out between the time the Israelis go in to stop the rocketing until the time that Western outrage at civilian casualties gets them to stop. The more victims, the greater the pressure. Anticipating the ground invasion, Christiane Amanpour asks Tony Blair during Operation Cast Lead: “The civilian casualties in Gaza are obviously going to put huge pressure on Israel. How long can Israel withstand this pressure?” It is a main goal of the activist media to emphasize Palestinian suffering to such a degree that Israel will stop.