Daniel Greenfield
July 14, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog
When Baraa Lahlouh, an Islamic
terrorist, was recently buried, he was draped in what the Agence
France-Presse (AFP) misleadingly described as "a flag showing the seal
believed to have been used by Islam’s Prophet Mohamed".
The wire service neglected to mention that it was more specifically
The Associated Press, as documented by CAMERA,
distributed photos of the burial while neglecting to describe the ISIS
flag. Along with burying a terrorist, they buried the lede.
The
growing presence of ISIS in Israel and its overlap with the established
Islamic terrorist groups like the PLO and Hamas has forced the media
into new extremes of evasiveness.
Former PLO official Hanan Ashrawi accused Israel of an "extrajudicial assassination".
The
PLO's Foreign Ministry responded to the shooting of the ISIS terrorist
by calling it a "hideous crime" It falsely accused Israel of "war
crimes" against "defenseless Palestinian citizens."
WAFA, the
PLO's news agency, charged Israel with "cold-blooded murder" in which,
according to the terrorist outlet, the ISIS terrorist and his comrades
were "ambushed and shot dead in cold blood".
The PLO’s support for ISIS terrorism against Israeli Jews is nothing new.
In
March, an ISIS terrorist carried out an attack at a shopping mall in
Beersheva that killed four Israelis including a rabbi who ran a soup
kitchen and who left behind four children.
Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, the Islamic terrorist, had previously tried to join ISIS.
Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, the PLO's official paper, praised the ISIS terrorist as a "martyr" and PA TV featured a poster
of the ISIS terrorist as a “martyr”. Hamas celebrated the attack as a
"heroic operation" and an Al Jazeera personality, an arm of the Qatari
regime which backs Hamas, posted a message, “Four [dead]. Blessed are
your hands".
That same month, two Islamic terrorists opened fire at a bus stop, one of whom had previously tried to join ISIS. They released a video featuring an ISIS flag and pledging allegiance to the ISIS caliph.
After the attack, ISIS issued an official statement boasting
of, “12 infidel Jewish forces killed and wounded in a sacrifice attack
carried out by soldiers of the Caliphate in northern Palestine.”
Hamas praised the "valor and courage" of the attack. Another Al Jazeera personality, Ahmed Mansour, celebrated
the ISIS attack for having “killed and wounded many occupation soldiers
[and] was a painful blow in the heart of Israel and of its Arab Zionist
allies."
The Palestinian Authority made no official statement,
but is likely to make payments to the families of the terrorists under
the ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program. That program was at the center of the debate
over continuing foreign aid by the United States to the PLO and its
Ramallah regime.
Even as ISIS is becoming part of this terrorist
landscape in Israel, Biden is preparing to visit the terrorist-occupied
territories inside Israel to meet with PLO dictator Mahmoud Abbas and
assorted terrorist leaders.
The administration is already undermining israel by running a shadow consulate to the terrorists.
It
has also poured hundreds of millions into PLO territories with official
numbers topping $500 million. The unofficial numbers are likely to go
well beyond that half a billion dollars.
And, as noted by Mark
Goldfeder of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, the shadow consulate
is "designed to help facilitate that aid... also illegal under the 2018
Taylor Force Act" which bans "any assistance that directly benefits the
PA unless and until the PA stops paying terrorists to kill American and
Israeli citizens". And the PA/PLO won’t stop doing that.
The
growing presence of ISIS in Israel benefits from the ‘Pay-to-Slay’
program funding attacks against Israel as well as the larger
infrastructure of terrorist media and organizations maintained by the
PLO. And, much as the Biden administration continues to funnel nearly $1 billion in “aid money” into Afghanistan despite the Taliban takeover, the same is true of terrorism in Israel.
Unlike
the PLO, Hamas, and the Taliban, ISIS remains so horrifyingly
unacceptable that the Biden administration and the media can only handle
its existence by entirely ignoring it.
The whitewashing of Baraa
Lahlouh’s burial in an ISIS flag by evasively describing it as the seal
of Mohammed has become typical. Pro-terrorist sites like Electronic
Intifada denounced the death of the ISIS terrorist as an "extrajudicial
execution". And they were not alone in spewing anti-Israel hate while
refusing to even mention the ISIS elephant in the terrorist room.
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) mourned the ISIS terrorist and his comrades, “Laith, Baraa, and Yusuf“ as "young men with entire lives ahead of them.”
“They
should be here today, but due to Israel’s relentless and deadly
violence against Palestinians, their loved ones will never see or hold
them again," IMEU complained.
The organization is a 501c3
non-profit. Propagandizing on behalf of a terrorist buried in an ISIS
flag would seem to run counter to the non-profit regulations that never
seem to be enforced against the enemies of this country, only against
its patriots and its defenders.
IMEU has been funded in the past by the Soros network, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tides Foundation,
and the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Leading leftist funders are
now kissing cousins with apologists for ISIS terrorists. And it does not
just stop there.
IMEU was just cited by Rep. Rashida Tlaib in her Nakba resolution attacking Israel's existence.
Tlaib
has a longstanding relationship with IMEU with both the BDS group and
the anti-Israel politician promoting each other. And, in the process,
Islamic terrorism, including ISIS.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Cente
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