This is ... objective journalism?
Yes, I suppose it was risky for an terrorist organization that wants total Islamic conquest to give up its negotiating power.
But why is that the headline that THE NEW YORK TIMES is using to cover the Israel-Hamas peace deal negotiated by Trump's State Department?
You'll notice that the NYT refers to Hamas as a simple "militant group," as if there's no difference between them and your local Second Amendment guys who get together once a month to shoot guns at the range. They also refer to the people Hamas kidnapped, tortured, and held prisoner for two years as "leverage."
Look at how they continue the framing:
The Palestinian militant group had long said it was willing to release all the hostages in exchange for the complete withdrawal of Israeli military forces from Gaza, a permanent end to the war and the release of Palestinian prisoners. The deal reached on Thursday only guarantees one of those three things: the prisoner release.
This is supposedly an objective news-analysis piece by the leading newspaper of the Western world.
But notice the language. Let me translate the inferences:
"These poor freedom fighters have been trying to end the war for a long time, but those mean Israelis kept bombing them. After giving up these prisoners, there's no guarantee those mean Israelis will keep their word."
Lest The Times has forgotten, Hamas started this fight by killing 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, in a coordinated military attack that slaughtered mothers and babies in their homes, as well as an entire crowd at a music festival.
Analysts said that was a big compromise that reflected how Hamas had been severely weakened during the two-year war and had come under tremendous pressure recently from important allies such as Qatar and Turkey.
The NYT also made sure to give a sliver of hope for Hamas supporters:
In future negotiations, Hamas could still extract concessions from Israel, possibly leaving it with some access to weapons and a role in postwar Gaza.
As some context for the reader:
Hamas doesn't simply want its own state. It wants control of Jerusalem. In Sunni Islamic theology, Jerusalem (Al Quds) is divinely appointed to be ruled by Muslims until Judgement Day. They believe God has given them the city as an endowment (waqf) until the entire world has been conquered under Islamic rule.
The semitic root letters that make up the words "Islam" and "Muslim" mean "submit." The end goal is not a state recognized by the United Nations; it's total submission of the entire world to their god.
The Jews are impeding this process by holding Jerusalem, which is why so many Muslims around the world support what Hamas is doing in Palestine.
Perhaps The New York Times does as well?
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