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Steven Emerson,
Executive Director
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March 14, 2016
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U.S.
Media Ignore Tel Aviv Shooter's Plan to Attack Israeli Kindergartens
by IPT News • Mar 14, 2016 at
3:11 pm
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The terrorist who shot and killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv on New
Year's Day hoped to slaughter Israeli kindergarten students, Israel Police reported
Sunday.
Nashat Milhem indiscriminately fired a submachine gun killing two Israelis outside of
a bar on a popular Tel Aviv street before running off. An hour later, the
terrorist also killed a Bedouin taxi driver. After a week-long manhunt,
Israeli forces killed Milhem following an exchange of fire near his home in
northern Israel.
Two days after the attack, police uncovered Milhem's plans to "carry out an
attack on Tel Aviv kindergarten students." However, the terrorist
"felt he was being chased" and "focused on survival,"
instead of going through with the plot to murder Israeli pre-schoolers.
Milhem's attack was among those lauded in a Hamas video which aired
Friday after the terrorist group hacked into Israel's Channel 2 feed. "The year
started in Tel Aviv and we have already returned to Dizengoff," Hamas
threatened, referencing the famous street in Tel Aviv where the terrorist
attack took place.
"Terror will never end," the video said, telling Israelis to
"get out of our country."
While the Washington Post chose to write about Hamas' hacking attack, no
mainstream U.S. media outlet, including the New York Times, saw fit
to report on a terrorist's plan to massacre Israeli schoolchildren.
The Times and Washington Post reported extensively on follow-up plots after November's
terrorist attacks in Paris. However, a heinous terrorist plot targeting
Israeli kindergarten students following a New Year's Day shooting spree
apparently does not rise to the level of meriting a new story for American
readers.
These types of glaring omissions are consistent with the misleading
reporting associated with the initial Jan. 1 Tel Aviv shooting attack.
In a Jan. 5 article,
the Times indicated officials remained unsure whether the shooting
attack was a terrorist attack or criminal in nature.
But by Jan. 2 – a day after the attack – a growing
consensus among Israeli security officials considered the shooting a
terrorist attack.
Nevertheless, a week after the shooting spree, the Post argued that "the motive for the Tel Aviv attack
also remains unclear..."
Imagine the headlines if the roles were reversed, and an Israeli was
found plotting an attack on Palestinian youngsters. The coverage would last
for days. Story lines would include detailed examinations of public
reaction and what the incident means about the wellbeing of Israeli
society. Why, then, is Milhem's shocking plan failing to attract a word of
coverage?
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