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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

On his May 15 show, comedian Bill Maher marked Israel\u2019s Independence Day with an apt summary of the mainstream media\u2019s calculus in determining what\u2019s worth reporting: \u201cNo Jews, no news.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I might make it \u201cNo Jews being accused of bad things, no news,\u201d but that\u2019s not as punchy. At any rate, Mr. Maher\u2019s words were prescient.<\/p>\n

Just days after he said them, the usual press offenders came to report \u2014 with something approaching glee \u2014 Israel\u2019s alleged \u201cabuse\u201d of Gaza flotilla activists.<\/p>\n

On May 18 and 19, the Israeli navy\u2019s Shayetet 13 commando unit intercepted the Turkish Global Sumud Flotilla, which had been on its way to interfere with Israel\u2019s naval blockade to Gaza in the name of \u201cFree Palestine\u201d (with zero humanitarian aid, according to Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry.)<\/p>\n

As the commandoes approached the flotilla, one was heard reassuring the activists: \u201cYou are safe and protected. We have done this 100 times already.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not exactly the words of a murderous, genocidal regime. Those adjectives better describe the aims of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, the al Qaeda-linked organizer of the flotilla.<\/p>\n

IHH has \u201ca history of funneling cash to Hamas and trafficking arms and recruits to violent jihadi networks in Europe and the Middle East,\u201d according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies\u2019 Sinan Ciddi and William Doran.<\/p>\n

One of the flotilla participants was New Jersey resident Amrou Ibrahim, a founding member of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network NY\/NJ chapter, according to the Jerusalem Post. Samidoun was sanctioned in 2024 by both the U.S. and Canada as part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group.<\/p>\n

Another flotilla participant, Rosa Martinez, said last weekend that this trip was not \u201csome sort of humanitarian aid mission,\u201d but rather an operation \u201cdirectly confronting the Israeli occupation forces at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The naval blockade of Gaza is a military and existential necessity for Israel, which, for the past 25 years, has consistently intercepted Iranian-supplied weapons hidden among civilian cargo on Gaza-bound vessels.<\/p>\n

Inspected humanitarian aid is permitted, as are trucked-in food and supplies.<\/p>\n

In fact, some 4,200 aid trucks enter Gaza every week \u2014 far more than the population requires. And as our editorial board wrote last month in these pages, Hamas is taxing said aid to make hundreds of millions in illicit cash for the rebuilding of its terror chest.<\/p>\n

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So the idea that these supposedly beneficent flotillas are anything other than carefully timed, coordinated public relations stunts intended to make Israel look bad holds no water.<\/p>\n

Yet last week, the international media was up in arms about a video posted by the office of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Mr. Ben-Gvir visited an Ashdod facility holding the flotilla detainees, and in the video, he walks through, waving an Israeli flag and saying, \u201cAm Yisrael chai\u201d (\u201cThe people of Israel live\u201d).<\/p>\n

The video also shows Israeli security forces leading the activists off boats, as well as detainees kneeling, apparently bound, following their interception, and a woman yelling, \u201cFree, free Palestine!\u201d before being pushed down by security.<\/p>\n

The footage drew immediate condemnation \u2014 most stridently from within the Knesset. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Mr. Ben-Gvir\u2019s actions were \u201cnot in line with Israel\u2019s values and norms\u201d and Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa\u2019ar called the video a \u201cdisgraceful display.\u201d<\/p>\n

For its part, the media decried Mr. Ben-Gvir\u2019s \u201ctaunting.\u201d But the only way that saying \u201cThe people of Israel live\u201d can be construed as taunting is if you concede that the people hearing it will be disappointed at the news.<\/p>\n

That \u2014 not the \u201ctaunting\u201d \u2014 is the real problem here. Anyone with a modicum of common sense would see the video as what it is: recordings of a sovereign nation defending itself against those who would cause it harm.<\/p>\n

You can just imagine what Europe (which gets in a particular kind of tizzy when Jews fight back) had to say about it.<\/p>\n

As for the claims of injury and abuse at the hands of the Israeli government, Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry posted three side-by-side photos of one such \u201cvictim\u201d on X. In the first, a woman stands, smiling, in Israel. In the second, the same woman is lying down, wearing what appears to be a neck brace (and a keffiyeh). In the third, back home in Germany, she\u2019s smiling, flashing the peace sign and wearing that obligatory keffiyeh.<\/p>\n

Something smells.<\/p>\n

If the media is suddenly so interested in uncovering sexual abuse, why has it been largely silent about Hamas\u2019 mass rapes and torture of Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023? The latest flotilla set sail from Turkey on May 14, just two days after the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes Against Women and Children released its report detailing these heinous crimes, each of which is nightmare-inducing to read about.<\/p>\n

Coincidence? Possibly, but I doubt it. The international press glommed onto the flotilla events \u2014 and the commission\u2019s report was all but buried.<\/p>\n

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It just shows how incisive Mr. Maher\u2019s observation was.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Anath Hartmann is deputy commentary editor for The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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