Dear Global Media

Dear Global Media

Dear global media,

We need to have a serious conversation.

Take a seat.

Listen, I’m a journalist. I get it. You get paid for traffic, for clicks. You have a family to feed. Trust me, I understand.

But I need you to understand something too. This is your time to shine. This is your time to listen to your conscience and not to your wallet. This is your time to elevate and lead.

I promise you, history won’t forget it.

But if you don’t choose wisely, if you choose your clicks over human life, which is what you’ve been doing since this war started, history also won’t forget.

This is what the title will be.

“In the most atrocious attack on the Jewish people since the holocaust, Sky News chose sides, and it sided with Hamas.”

Are you comfortable going down that way in history?

If you want to choose correctly, allow me to help you.

Here are some guidelines.

Hamas terrorists are not ‘’militants. They are terrorists. Words matter. A lot! Words can kill.

Taking data from Hamas about the number of people killed in the IDF’s retaliation is dangerous and dishonest. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They use psychological warfare too. The numbers they report to you are lies. I’m surprised I need to tell you this.

Besides the actual numbers, the differentiation between terrorists and innocent civilians that Hamas makes is also a fabrication. Don’t believe their reports. Israel is going to unimaginable lengths to avoid civilian deaths. Most of the time, successfully.

Next. When something happens in Gaza, like a hospital is bombed, just to give a hypothetical example, just because Hamas, who I will remind you again, is a terrorist organization, says Israel did it, does not mean, despite the clicks it’ll get, that you have to take their word for it and report it.

You will regret it when you find out that Hamas lied. Again.

Be smarter than that.

Now for some math.

You know what an equal sign means? It means that both sides of the equation are the same.

So like 2+4=6. Get it? 6=6.Well, in this war, you’re going to have to put away that equal sign if you want to be honest and be judged favorably by history.

There is no equal sign between the IDF, an entity that does everything, perhaps even too much, to minimize innocent death, and Hamas, a barbaric terrorist organization that does everything to MAXIMIZE innocent death. That’s not an opinion. They are proud of that.

There are not two equal sides here.

This is morality vs barbarism.There is an army that drops pamphlets in Gaza to tell people to evacuate immediately because they are about to attack a terror cell (which means that the terror cell knows what’s about to happen and still, the IDF does this.) on the one side, and then there is an organization that, well, I refuse to write the things they did, but you know. You saw the body cams.

Enough equating the two sides. Now let’s have a conversation about Gaza. You truly feel the need to report on the humanitarian situation in Gaza? Ok, I can’t stop you. But be honest, be fair, have some integrity.

Ask yourself one question.

Is Israel justified in defending itself? After what Hamas did, can you understand why Israel had to retaliate?

If so, and I hope the answer is that you do think Israel has a right to defend itself, then tell me, would you be asking about the humanitarian crisis in Germany in WWII or was the denazification of Germany a worthy enough cause that you understood innocent people are going to die?

Would you be reporting on the humanitarian crisis in any affected area of war or only when it pertains to the Jews fighting back? Are you writing about the innocent Russian deaths?If not, why not? Again, honesty. Now is the time for honesty.

The people of Gaza elected Hamas just like the people of Germany elected the Nazis.There were those who didn’t and there were many innocent Germans who died in WWII, just like in any other war. But you didn’t question the legitimacy of WWII (I hope) or how many innocent Germans died.

So don’t do that now.

You want to talk about humanitarian crisis? Go look at the south of Israel. Go see the towns. Go look at the numbers. If you’re going to report on innocents, then do it accurately.

Remember Hamas attacked unprovoked and by their own admission, tried to murder as many innocent people as possible. If you want to talk about the topic, then do it fairly, objectively, and accurately.

The hostages. With God’s help, more hostages will be freed in the coming weeks. Hamas is not doing this out of the kindness of its heart. It’s not choosing randomly who it lets out.

C’mon, you’re smarter than that.

Hamas is freeing prisoners who have family members still being held by Hamas. Why? Because that way they won’t tell the world what they really experienced.

Don’t be Hamas’ puppet and report that they are treating the hostages well. Do you honestly believe that? If you do, then I think you need to go back and watch the footage from October 7th.

These Hamas monsters did things even the Nazis didn’t do. They did things even ISIS didn’t do. They’re not treating the hostages like royalty, ok? Use your brain and stop playing directly into the hands of modern day Nazis.

Listen, I get it, I really do. It’s so easy to vilify Israel, to blame the Jews. In the short term, you’ll get a raise at work. But let me tell you how this plays out. And I can guarantee you this is what is going to happen.

Hamas and all its radical Islamic friends will not stop with Israel. They say it. Believe them. They won’t. And when they come to your country, assuming they’re not there already (chances are, they’re there!), you are going to have to report the story. And guess what you won’t be able to do? Change your narrative.

There is no way you will be able to get away with reporting about Hamas’ evil nature when they come for you, your friends, and your family, when just a few weeks or months before, you took their side.

Remember that raise you got? Yea, this time it’ll be a termination letter.

So think. Do you really want to side with people who proudly live stream the murder, rape, and abduction of women, children, the elderly, and even the disabled?

Think, really think.

If not for the reason that you don’t want to go to your grave knowing you sided with Hamas, then do it for your future career. Siding with Hamas now will not end well for you. I promise you that. It just won’t.

So now is the time to make a judgement call.

If you were giving advice to your child now which side to choose and how to report about this war, what would you tell your child?

Then tell yourself the same thing.

Choose wisely. Choose morally. This is a decision you’ll remember forever.

Report about this war with integrity.

And if not for all the reasons mentioned above, then here’s one more.Israel will win this. We always do. We have God on our side. We have the IDF. We WILL win. By choosing the side of Hamas, you will go down in history not only as the journalist who sided with savage terrorists but also with the side that lost a war in the most significant way anyone has ever lost a war. You will remembered as the person who chose the wrong side, on all fronts.

Hamas will be obliterated soon and while they won’t remain; your Hamas-loving articles will. Besides history, you know what else never forgets? The Internet. What you write now will be remembered forever.Make the right decision. Ask yourself what you’d want your child to do or what your parent would want you to do.

Imagine covering WWII and favoring the Nazis. That is what is happening right now in the media. Don’t fall into that trap. Step up. Stand up for what’s right. You can never go wrong by choosing right.

And one more thing. Your editor. I understand how it works. You’re being pressured. Like I said, this is your time to shine. Stand up to your editor and say “No. This isn’t right. We shouldn’t do this!”

I understand you’re risking your job. I get it. But if you don’t stand up now, you’ll be risking much more than your job. You’re risking your soul!!

It’s not easy. I get it. But you can do it. I believe in you. Israel believes in you.

You can do this!

By the way, I posted this earlier and have had endless legal professionals contact me to offer their pro-bono services to sue Sky News. They chose wrong. They will pay. One way or another, they will pay.

You can do better.

Shai Bibi

Business Analyst at Coutts

10 个月

BBC as well. Just shocking.

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Esther Reizes-Lowenbein

Investor/GP. CRE equity capital connector. Fund manager. Licensed Real Estate Salesperson at eXp Realty.

1 年

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why wait until the war's over? Let's start the process now.

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Ido Volff

Business and Sales executive | Growth Hacker | B2B SaaS, Big data, LLM, Fintech and Crypto entrepreneur | Co-founder @ superQuery (acquired Feb 2020) | Early stage Mentor

1 年

Well said Hillel Fuld. I'd love to help. LMK what do you need.

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