Associated Press (AP) was among the first to report that Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken wants Israel to halt military operations against Hamas because “Far too many Palestinians have been killed.”

AP was also among the first to send pictures of the Hamas-conducted holocaust against Israeli Jews on October 7. AP keeps repeating Hamas Health Ministry estimates that over 11,000 people in Gaza have been killed while over 1,400 Israelis were killed on October 7, “mainly in the initial Hamas attack.”

AP didn’t reveal that its reporters were with Hamas in that attack, nor does it report that the Health Ministry is a propaganda arm of Hamas. And its comparison of death tolls is not subtle. But it is outrageous. Here’s why.

Honest Reporting, a media watchdog, blew the whistle on AP and Reuters for having embedded journalists with Hamas on October 7. Honest Reporting said,

“On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.”

It sure does, as these so-called “journalists” were in plain clothes without outward press identification. They had to know in advance but didn’t warn authorities of the attack. This means that these news organizations could well have supported, aided, and abetted the atrocities of October 7. But it is much deeper.

It’s long been the terrorists’ strategy to interweave their operations among civilian organizations and the news media so that when retaliation for their attacks commences, innocents are harmed or killed. Then, instead of terrorists being blamed, there is international outrage about how the poor “Palestinians” are being murdered by evil Israelis. The evil actions of the terrorists are then essentially justified. The media is complicit.

On May 12, 2021, Israel flattened the building that housed AP, al Jazeera, and other news reporting organizations in Gaza. On cue, the media started shaping the narrative that the terrible Israelis bombed the building, causing journalists to run for their lives. AP’s story claimed total innocence of any knowledge that the building was used as a headquarters for Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Journalists covering these terrorists cannot reasonably claim they didn’t know the terrorists’ plans—they are headquartered in the same building! That the media were sharing quarters with Hamas explains the anti-Israel news bias emanating from these news outlets.

These terrorists are evil. They use children, women, journalists, whoever, to hide behind while they do their evil deeds. And when someone gets hurt, there is an international outcry, while the terrorists get little criticism from the media. And when the media are caught, they say, “I didn’t know that.”

Yes, they did. There is blood on their hands. These media should be blackballed and their credentials revoked.

Isaiah 5:20 says, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.”

That includes the media, politicians who are complicit with them, and those demonstrating in the streets for Hamas.

Sources:

https://honestreporting.com/photographers-without-borders-ap-reuters-pictures-of-hamas-atrocities-raise-ethical-questions/

https://apnews.com/article/blinken-israel-gaza-hamas-850cf28c13d8df087f75c0536462b604

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mainstream-outlets-had-photographers-embedded-with-hamas-as-terror-attack-unfolded-report

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In looking at the world’s condition, many wonder if it can get worse. The brutal attack by Islamic terrorists on Israel revealed much. It was a reminder that the enemies of Israel are hateful, cruel, and barbaric. It was also an eye-opener on the hate leveled at Jews and Israel by the rest of the world.

Not since Hitler’s acts in World War II has there been such open hatred toward a people. The very people who fly the banners “hate does not live here” are filled with hate. The type of hate being witnessed around the world is not just spoken but is wrapped in the shroud of unspeakable immoral acts and begs the question of how long the Lord will wait to return and set things right. Let’s look at Sodom for an indicator.

Genesis 18 is the account of the Lord revealing his plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because “their sin is very grievous (verse 20).” Abraham then asked the Lord to spare the cities if there were 50, then 45, then 40, and on down to 10 righteous people found. The Lord graciously conceded that if there were 10 righteous people, He would spare the two cities. Of course, the two angels that went down to check only found Lot, his wife, and his daughters.

The wicked people of the city tried to molest the two angels, so they struck them blind and told Abraham’s nephew Lot, who lived in Sodom, to take his family and flee to the hills because God was going to destroy the cities. Lot, his wife, and two of his daughters kept delaying their departure, and finally, the angels took them out of the city. Lot’s wife looked back and was turned to salt.

This is a story of a most sinful and dark place, where even the righteous had the most difficult time separating themselves from the depravity. Sodom is mentioned over 50 times in the Bible. Christ pointed to Sodom as an example of how it will be upon his return.

In Luke 17:28-30, Christ said, “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”

Sodom and Gomorrah are the gold standard when talking about the depravity of mankind. They are the example of the judgment of God.

Jude 1:7 says, “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

The sins were comprehensive.

The Lord says in Ezekiel 16:49, “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread [gluttony], and abundance of idleness [laziness] was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”

It would seem that these days in which we live are very similar to the time of Sodom.

Two thoughts: When it gets as bad as Sodom (and it will), the Lord will not tarry. Also, be vigilant to be going about Christ’s business in this world but not being of it. For being of the world is difficult to come out, as exemplified by Lot’s wife.

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