NY Times calls terrorists ‘hostages,’ Mamdani’s – Latest News
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This caption:
“Watching the sunset at the beach on Sunday, hours before the expected exchange of hostages between Israel and Hamas.” — The New York Times, Monday
We say: Israel was NOT releasing “hostages,” solely prisoners, together with 250 convicted of probably the most heinous crimes, together with bus bombings that killed dozens of people, planning main terror assaults and homicide.
This motive:
“A key reason we have to make buses free is because it reduces the assaults on bus drivers.” — Zohran Mamdani, Tuesday
We say: No, a thousand instances, no: You don’t stop crime by letting criminals do no matter they need, Zohran. If farebeaters are assaulting bus drivers, then we need more cops on buses to arrest these goons. Don’t give up the town to its predators.
This declare:
“The idea that politics played a role in big cases like this is absolutely ludicrous.” — former Special Counsel Jack Smith, Tuesday
We say: Ridiculous: Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith after White House insiders informed The New York Times that President Joe Biden was livid that Garland wasn’t prosecuting Donald Trump. And Smith’s mission was totally political. His indictments of Trump, for retaining categorised information and his function within the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” have been each unprecedented and unreasonable.
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This comparability:
“They’re [the hostages] probably being treated better than the average Gazan.” — Christiane Amanpour, international correspondent, Wednesday
We say: That Amanpour was quickly pressured to apologize makes this no much less odious. Hamas kidnapped harmless Israelis, and savagely murdered dozens of them, together with infants, in captivity; it proudly shared videos of hostages being starved and tortured. Average Gazans’ struggling (in a struggle Hamas began) doesn’t remotely examine.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
