Nu finns absolut inget förtroende kvar för Hufvudstadsbladets Mellanöstern rapportering

 På Hufvudstadsbladets första sida står det i dag: Randa Al-Dawoudi: Israel vågar göra vad de vill då världen inte reagerar.

På sid fyra och fem följer sedan en intervju med henne: ”Israel vågar göra vad de vill då världen inte reagerar”  (Påståendet i sig är absurt eftersom Israel hela tiden kritiseras av omvärlden) Rubrik i e-tidningen: Randa känner tidvis skuld för att hon är i säkerhet.

Bristen på mat i Gaza är så stor att folk blandar sand i brödet, säger den palestinska journalisten Randa Al-Dawoudi, är inledningstexten. Senare i texten framkommer att "Hon har hört att folk blandar sand i degen då det bakar bröd för att dryga ut mjölet. "

En palestinsk journalist/influenser säger sig ha hört att man blandar sand i mjöl. Det är HBL beredd att publicera i sin underrubrik. HBL har alltså ingen som helst källkritik.

HBL: – Jag känner kvinnor som har våldtagits av ockupanter. Jag har också hört om kvinnor som blivit våldtagna framför sina barn.

Randa säger sig ha hört om kvinnor som blivit våldtagna och säger sig känna kvinnor som blivit våldtagna. Hon bor sedan ett år sedan i Helsingfors och bodde tidigare i Istanbul, hon är alltså inget ögonvittne från Gaza, men det hindrar inte HBL att publicera hennes grova anklagelser mot Israel. Utan några namn eller bevis, det räcker med att någon säger sig ha hört om saken.

Att i en krigssituation publicera vad någon från den ena sidan säger sig ha hört utan att det finns några bevis är inte seriös nyhetsförmedling.

Randa beklagar sig över att maten i Gaza är så dyr. Men hon bryr sig inte om orsaken: Hamas stjäl mathjälpen som borde delas ut gratis till de behövande och säljer den dyrt för att få pengar till sin verksamhet.

Hon anser också att Israel borde stängas ute ur Eurovision, precis som Ryssland stängdes ute 2022.

Här gör hon liksom många andra en logisk kullerbytta. Ryssland stänges ut eftersom de anföll Ukraina, precis som Hamas anföll Israel. När man kräver att Israel skall stängas ut från Eurovisionen är det som om man tidigare skulle ha krävt att Ukraina skall stängas ut eftersom de försvarar sig mot Ryssland.

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Situationen i Gaza

I oktober 2023 bröt ett krig mellan Hamas och Israel ut. Sedan kriget startade har 52 000 palestinier dödats, varav hälften civila.

"...kriget bröt ut" Att det var Hamas som startade kriget och utförde en massaker på över 1000 judar är ingen faktauppgift värt att nämnas. Naturligtvis inte heller att kriget omedelbart kunde avslutas om terroristerna lade ner sina vapen och släppte de kidnappade israelerna. Att avsluta kriget ligger helt i Hamas händer.

Randa måste få ha sina åsikter men att HBL publicerar helt obekräftade uppgifter som dagens sanning gör nog att förtroendet för tidningen försvinner.

Det kan ännu nämnas att HBL på ledarplats, mot bättre vetande, krävt att Finland nu skall erkänna en palestinsk stat. HBL vill belöna terroristerna med en egen stat som inte skulle uppfylla de internationella krav som finns för att ett område skall erkännas som självständig stat.

Ingemo Lindroos

Finland, sluta panta på Palestinabeslutet

"Förnekelsen började medan massakrerna fortfarande pågick"

 Chair of UK Oct. 7 report: ‘Denial started while the massacres were still ongoing’ (TOI)

Historian Andrew Roberts led a parliamentary commission aimed at gathering irrefutable proof of Hamas atrocities to ensure that in future decades ‘deniers’ can still be challenged

LONDON — With its minute-by-minute timeline, copious testimony from survivors and eyewitnesses, and wealth of forensic evidence and open-source footage, the 316-page report produced by British parliamentarians last month detailing the terrible events of October 7, 2023, is a comprehensive and meticulous account of the Hamas onslaught on Israel.

That is unsurprising. The panel responsible for the “7 October Parliamentary Commission Report” was chaired by Andrew Roberts, a renowned historian, biographer and expert on warfare, from the Battle of Waterloo to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

It isn’t simply Roberts’s longstanding support for Israel that led him to agree to chair the commission, but his concern over continuing attempts to whitewash Hamas’s atrocities — an effort he compares to Holocaust denial.

“There’s a movement afoot on behalf of Hamas and its sympathizers to pretend that October 7 never happened,” he tells The Times of Israel. The report’s aim was to compile “a large amount of unimpeachable evidence to prove that it did.”

With an eye on history, Roberts also wanted to gather irrefutable proof to ensure that, in future decades, “the deniers” can still be challenged, even in the absence of living eyewitnesses.

Roberts, who is not Jewish, does not underestimate the scale of the challenge.

“It took decades for Holocaust denial to really get going,” he says, “but October 7 denial started while the actual massacres were still going [on].”

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En majoritet av palestinierna anser fortfarande att Hamas gjorde rätt när de anföll Israel

 59% of Palestinians under the Palestinian Authority: October 7 was “correct decision” (PMW)

More than a year and a half after the Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 59% of Palestinians polled in the "West Bank" still think that Hamas' made the "correct decision" to torture, rape, burn alive, murder, and kidnap hundreds of hostages—even including children—according to the most respected Palestinian polling agency.

The new poll by Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research asks: "In your view, was Hamas' decision to launch its offensive against Israel on 7 October a correct or incorrect one?" The polling shows a continuation of the pattern of decreasing support since December 2023, when the first poll was taken after the October 7 atrocities. It found that 82% of "West Bank" Palestinians thought October 7 was a "correct decision." In March and June 2024, just over 70% of Palestinians there supported it. In September 2024, support dropped to 64%. And now, 59% still say it was a "correct decision."

Verkligt dålig rapportering av TT - Hufvudstadsbladet

 Det är märkligt hur otroligt dåligt nyhetsmedia ibland kan rapportera. Här ett exempel från HBL: Israel angriper Huthirörelsen i Jemen (nyhetsnotisen kommer från TT)

- HBL: Räderna genomfördes dagen efter det att Huthirörelsen avfyrat en robot mot Israels flygplats Ben Gurion nära Tel Aviv. Roboten nådde inte sitt avsedda mål.

 Vad som verkligen hände:Det var fråga om en ballistisk missil och den träffade Ben Gurion flygplatsen och flera personer skadades. Den träffade inte någon byggnad eller landningsbana men alltså nog området. De flesta internationella flygbolag avbröt trafiken till Israel på grund av attacken.

- HBL:  Attackerna mot Jemen och mål som tros tillhöra den islamistiska extremiströrelsen Huthi har intensifierats den senaste tiden. Huthirörelsen har i sin tur bland annat angripit fartygstrafik i Röda havet i solidaritet med terrorstämplade Hamas.

Vad som verkligen hänt:Tydligen inte värt att nämna att Israel nästan dagligen attackerats med ballistiska missiler och drönare från Jemen vilket tvingat hundratusentals invånare att söka sig till bombskydd. Detta har pågått i veckor och Israel har under en lång tid nöjt sig med att försöka skjuta ner missilerna, vilket vanligtvis också lyckas. Trots att missilerna skjuts ner kan nerfallande delar vara dödligt farliga för befolkningen som alltså måste söka sig till bombskydd.

Huthiernas senaste bekräftade attack mot fartygtrafiken inträffade i november, nästan för ett halv år sedan.

Airlines further extend pauses on Israel flights, in sign they may stay away longer

Most carriers suspending their Tel Aviv route for days, with British Airways halting service until mid-June, after missile from Yemen landed inside grounds of Ben Gurion Airport.

IDF ‘completely disables’ Houthi-controlled Sanaa airport in strikes on Yemen capital

The strikes, for the second day in a row, came in response to the Iran-backed group’s repeated missile and drone attacks on Israel, including one missile that hit inside the grounds of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said...

...Tuesday’s sortie was the seventh Israeli strike in Yemen since the beginning of the war. The IDF had stopped responding to the Houthis’ missile and drone fire on Israel after the US launched a major aerial campaign against the Iran-backed group in March, but resumed attacks on Monday following the Ben Gurion Airport attack.

…On Sunday, a Houthi missile landed inside the perimeter of Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for the first time, in a grove of trees alongside an access road close to the airport’s main Terminal 3, several hundred yards from the facility’s control tower.

The missile gouged a wide crater in the ground near an airport parking lot, and injured six people, none of them seriously, prompting most international airlines to suspend flights.

The Houthis said they would “work to impose a comprehensive air blockade on the Israeli enemy by repeatedly targeting airports, most notably… Ben Gurion Airport.”

...Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis have launched some 27 ballistic missiles and several drones at Israel.

The sirens warning of missile attacks have sent hundreds of thousands of Israelis rushing to shelters at all hours of the night and day, causing a number of injuries in the scramble during threats from the incoming missiles and also as a precaution against falling debris from intercepts, which have occasionally caused injuries, death, and damage.

Trump ditched Israel with surprise Houthi truce. That doesn’t bode well on Iran

Days after Yemeni group caused untold economic damage by hitting Ben Gurion Airport, the US president blindsided his allies; this has no doubt unsettled Jerusalem amid nuclear talks

The day I dodged a ballistic missile

We'd just landed when something streaked from the sky. It slammed into the ground, 300 yards away, and a giant splash of brownish-red earth exploded upward like a volcano

Hamas lurar omvärlden - och den låter sig luras

 Hamas fatality figures for Gaza war are ‘clear disinformation,’ according to new study

The percentage of women and children killed in Gaza during the course of Israel’s war against Hamas following the October 7 atrocities is far lower than claimed by the terror group’s media propaganda agency, according to a new study.

The study found that despite claims by Hamas’s Government Media Office that some 70 percent of fatalities were women and children, figures provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health showed the real rate to be 51%...

...“We do not doubt that a large number of civilians have tragically lost their lives in this conflict, and it is deeply concerning to us,” the two researchers stated.

They asserted however that Hamas’s declarations that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza “was inconsistent with its own datasets,” and that “doctoring” of the data was possible because many of the medical directors in the Gazan Ministry of Health and hospital system were controlled by Hamas.

“Sadly, when Hamas’s narratives were accepted and amplified without any forensic critique, to be broadcast enthusiastically by agenda-driven activists, much of the world public was deceived.”

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 Artiklar från MEMRI, behandlar ämnen som sällan rapporteras.

Ayatollah Ahmad Alam Al-Hoda, Senior Iranian Official Close To Supreme Leader Khamenei, In International Qods Day Speech: 'All The Stories About The Holocaust Are A Complete Lie... And A Western Researcher Even Proved This'; England Invented The Story Of The Holocaust

On International Qods Day, marked by the Iranian regime this year on March 28, 2025,[1] Ayatollah Ahmad Alam Al-Hoda, Friday prayer imam for the city of Mashhad and representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Khorasan Razavi province, and a member of the Assembly of Experts that is tasked with selecting Iran's supreme leader, gave a speech at the Imam Reza mosque in Mashhad. In his speech, he denied the Holocaust against the Jews of Europe, saying that "all the stories about the Holocaust are a complete lie" and that "a Western researcher even proved this." Alam Al-Hoda explained also that "England invented the [idea of the] Holocaust in order to compensate the Jews for the injustice done them in World War [II]" – meaning that since the British had circulated this fake Holocaust story, they then had to make it up to the Jews for the alleged atrocities against them by giving them Palestine.

Qatar-Based And -Funded International Union Of Muslim Scholars And Its Members Incite To Armed Jihad Against Israel And Murder Of Israeli Tourists In Arab Countries

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Claims First And Second Jewish Temples Were In Yemen, Not Jerusalem; Says To Hamas: You Sons-Of-Bitches, Release The Israeli Hostages, Stop Giving Israel A Pretext For War

Muslim Brotherhood's Grand Mufti Of Libya, Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani: Egyptians, Moroccans, And Emiratis Have A Duty To Kill Israeli Tourists, Who Are Not Civilians, But Soldiers On Leave

Conference Of Islamic Clerics In Pakistan Calls For Jihad Against Israel: 'The Entire Region, Including Israel, Is The Ancestral Homeland Of Palestinians... America, If It Wants, Can Settle The Israelis Anywhere Else'

Dearborn Heights Fundraiser And Poetry Night For Palestine, Organized With Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM): This American Empire Must Fall; People Here Are Willing To Fight And Put Their Lives On The Line To Bring Western Empires Down

Jaber Al-Harmi, Editor Of Qatari Government Daily 'Al-Sharq,' In Antisemitic Post: 'The Hour Of Judgement Will Not Come Until We Fight The Jews And Kill Them'

Jabber Al-Harmi, editor-in-chief of the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq, posted a virulently antisemitic message on his X account, in which he wished for the death of the Jews, writing:  "We are certain that the Hour of Judgement will not come until we fight the Jews and kill them. We feel no despair or hopelessness, despite all the pain, wounds and bloodshed." The text evokes a well-known hadith (saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) which states: "The Hour of Judgement will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. The Jews will hide behind a stone or a tree, but the stone or tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."[1] This hadith is also quoted in Hamas' charter.

This post by Al-Harmi reflects his antisemitic views and the antisemitic discourse prevalent in the Qatari media at large. Qatar's government press, including the Al-Sharq daily, of which Al-Harmi is the editor, frequently publishes antisemitic articles that present the Jews as the enemies of Allah, as cunning and treacherous, as murderers of the prophets and as blood-suckers.[2]  In addition to his antisemitic discourse Al-Harmi also frequently makes statements against Israel in which he hopes for Israel's demise and for the liberation of all of Palestine...

Lebanese Sunni Islamic Scholar Aboubaker Zahabi In Beirut Protest: We Say To The 'Sons Of Zion' – Our Religion Is The Religion Of Jihad; We Will Come To You And Slaughter You

Lebanese Sunni Islamic scholar Aboubaker Zahabi, speaking at a Beirut protest in support of the people of Palestine, aired on Palestine Today TV (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) on April 7, 2025, said, "Our religion is the religion of Jihad," and declared that they will come to slaughter the "sons of Zion." He quoted the hadith which states that Muslims will fight the Jews at the End of Days, and the Jews will hide behind trees and rocks. Zahabi added that on Judgment Day, Allah will send the "sons of Zion" to Hellfire for eternity, while the martyrs will be in Paradise and the fate of the Muslims will be victory...

Two Full Years (And Counting) Of Hell In Sudan

In a world obsessed by Gaza and Ukraine, distracted by the latest media tempest, great tragedies struggle to gain traction. That April 15, 2025 is the second anniversary of the brutal Sudanese Civil War is one those great tragedies that will be briefly talked about and then forgotten. One reason is that it lacks those factors that would make it a top-shelf story despite being the world's worst humanitarian crisis. It takes place in Africa, the motherland of forgotten stories. It does not involve the United States or President Trump; Israel plays no central role. Although the slaughter and suffering are extreme, it does not fit easily into those tropes that capture the Western imagination: telegenic heroes and villains, an easily understood storyline, a sanctimonious if implausible solution to the conflict...

...Sudan has, unfortunately, been at war for most of its independent history, but the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Janjaweed and the Sudanese Army (SAF) is the most destructive in the country's grim history. Much of the Sudanese capital and the industry centered there are in ruins. More than half the population, 25 million people, are facing acute food insecurity. The charity World Vision said on April 11 that 600,000 "face death within days or weeks without urgent action."...

Director Of NY Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Center Mohammad Badawy: We Eagerly Await The Day Al-Aqsa Mosque Is Free And The 'Illegitimate Zionist Occupiers' Are Destroyed; Holiday Greetings To Those Who Resist 'By Any Means Necessary'

Röster ur en mardröm (kidnappade i Gaza)

Ex-hostage Ron Krivoi: No one can truly understand what it’s like down in the tunnels

"...Of the tunnel he was then taken to, he said, “These aren’t the tunnels you see in pictures. We were in something really small, deep underground. There wasn’t even a floor – we were on sand, and the mattresses were all moldy. We were inside a very, very small cage. Honestly, about a meter and a half by a meter and a half, and we had to lie down and rest in it – you couldn’t stand. No height, no toilets, no food. We were five people, we ate one small dish with some canned food and a pita that we divided among us. I was there for 51 days and lost nine kilograms (20 pounds) of body weight.”..."

Former hostage Arbel Yehoud says captors threatened to kill her if IDF approached

Former hostage Arbel Yehoud, who was returned to Israel in January as part of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, says her Palestinian Islamic Jihad captors made it clear to her that they would kill her if the IDF discovered their location and came to rescue her.

 ‘Medieval torture’: Former hostages plead with Trump to free remaining captives

Freed hostages hold English-language presser addressed to US president, recalling brutality, inhumanity, torture and agony of Hamas captivity, beg for him to restart serious truce talks

Former hostage Emily Damari shares testimony about her time in captivity

She went on to describe the moment she and Gonen understood the date: “A year ago, we somehow gathered from Al Jazeera that it was Memorial Day. Romi and I decided that at 11 a.m., we would simply stand for a minute and remember everyone. We let ourselves feel the pain. It was one of the most powerful moments we experienced there. To be in the lowest place imaginable, and still find a way to mark the day—that meant everything.”