Al Jazeera is Hamas

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On Monday, an Israeli air strike took out a Hamas journalist who was also an Al-Jazeera sniper.

Or the other way around.

The death of Hossam Shabat once again showed that the line between the Qatari media operation and the Qatari funded terrorist group is so thin that it amounts to little more than a costume change putting on the iconic blue press vest or switching it out for something that blends better with Gaza’s bare concrete battlefields.

The media however only reported on only one side of Shabat’s dual personality. From the Washington Post to FOX News’s Trey Yingst, the mainstream media insisted on calling him a “journalist” and pretended that he was not also a terrorist who had hailed the Oct 7 attacks.

“CPJ is appalled that we are once again seeing Palestinians weeping over the bodies of dead journalists in Gaza,” the Committee to Protect Journalists, a Soros-funded radical group, wailed, and demanded that the “international community must act fast” to hold Israel accountable for Shabat’s death. “Journalists are civilians and it is illegal to attack them in a war zone.”

There are places where journalists may be civilians, but Gaza isn’t one of them, and there may be news organizations that don’t staff up with terrorists, but Al-Jazeera also isn’t one of those.

Both the media in general and Al-Jazeera in particular were well aware that Shabat was a Hamas operative. Last year, Israel presented documents showing that six Al Jazeera personnel were actually terrorist operatives including Shabat who was described as a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion. Al-Jazeera’s refusal to fire Shabat and the media’s refusal to report on his actual status showed the complicity of not only Qatar but much of the media, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, in allowing Hamas terrorists to pretend to be reporters.

And that actually does endanger journalists.

The exposure of the six Al-Jazeera journalists, 4 of whom were also Hamas terrorists, and 2 others for Islamic Jihad, was only the latest revelation of the interchangeability of Hamas and Al Jazeera.

After waiting nearly six months for Al-Jazeera to take action against Shabat, the IDF finally took him out, announcing that it had “eliminated the terrorist Hossam Basel Abdul Karim Shabat, a sniper terrorist from the Beit Hanoun Battalion of the Hamas terrorist organisation, who cynically posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.” But when the average Al-Jazeera journalist is also a terrorist, mixing terrorism and journalism comes with the job The only pose comes from the show of grief and outrage, carefully planned ‘funeral’ photos intended for broadcast on al Jazeera, after another terrorist in a blue press vest dies on the battlefield.

Last year, Ismail Al-Ghoul, an Al-Jazeera reporter who took part in the Oct 7 attack as a member of the Hamas Nukhba terror force, was killed alongside another Al Jazeera operative.

Al Jazeera, Reporters Without Borders, CPI and the Washington Post loudly denied Al-Ghoul’s terrorist membership.

Hamza Al Dahdouh, the son of Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief and a member of Islamic Jihad’s election engineering unit, was killed while operating a drone alongside fellow Al Jazeera and Mustafa Thuria, a Hamas deputy commander.

The Washington Post, did not deny that the two men were terrorists, but they reviewed footage handed to it by an Al-Jazeera subcontractor and “found no indications that either man was operating as anything other than a journalist that day.” The emphasis being that day since it’s unclear when an Al-Jazeera terrorist is propagandizing for terrorists or assisting in their attacks.

No matter how red-handed Al-Jazeera’s terrorists are caught, the media and media organizations will never acknowledge the truth. Last year, Israeli soldiers found a laptop belonging to Muhammad Wishah, an Al-Jazeera journalist, complete with photos of him working at his side gig in Hamas’s anti-tank unit. The media refused to report on the evidence and if Wishah, who continues working for Al-Jazeera, is killed, it will go on covering up his terrorism.

Qatar enables the dual roles of Al-Jazeera and Hamas. Al Jazeera exists to pursue Qatar’s political goals, including the war on Israel, as does Hamas. And Qatar has been known to get directly involved on behalf of its terrorist journalists.

Ismail Abu Omar, an Al-Jazeera journalist and Hamas deputy commander who took part in the Oct 7 attacks and filmed himself during the Kibbutz Nir Oz massacres, was evacuated to Doha aboard a Qatari plane after he was wounded in an Israeli air strike.

Al-Jazeera complained that Israel was “deliberately targeting Al Jazeera crews.”

When Abu Omar entered the Jewish community being massacred by Hamas terrorists, he shouted, “Allahu Akbar” and began to cry, not out of horror at the murdered families, but out of joy. “For the first time, I am experiencing the scenes that we have always heard about, live and directly,” he told Al-Jazeera.

When Israeli soldiers found and rescued three hostages taken from the Nova Music Festival, it was in the apartment of Abdullah Al-Jamal, yet another ‘journalist’ who had written for Al-Jazeera and advocated for the ‘rights of prisoners’ meaning captured Hamas terrorists. Neighbors later told CNN, that “we were worried about the Aljamal house. They are with Hamas.” In that moment they admitted more than Al Jazeera was ever willing to admit.

Al-Jazeera declared “that these allegations are a continuation of the process of slander and misinformation aimed at harming Al Jazeera’s reputation, professionalism, and independence.”

Al-Jazeera’s reputation since the beginning was that it’s a propaganda machine for Islamic terrorists backed by Qatar. It has no independence and its idea of professionalism is terrorism.

Israel has begun treating Al-Jazeera as the terrorist group that it is. We ought to do likewise.