World Media Blames Israel for US Striking Iran
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Taking 66 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran
in 1979. Killing 258 Americans in three separate Beirut bombings in 1983.
Killing 19 U.S. Air Force servicemen in Saudi Arabia in 1996. Killing 603 U.S.
service members in Iraq between 2003 and 2011. Killing three Americans in
Jordan in January 2024. Attempting to assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump
last year. Damaging the U.S. embassy branch in Tel Aviv last week.
This is just a partial list of what the Islamic Republic of
Iran has done to the United States since the regime came to power 46 years ago.
Nevertheless, since Trump ordered strikes on Iranian
nuclear facilities Saturday night, leading media outlets in the U.S. and around
the world have reported that the U.S. had no reason to get involved, other than
to help Israel.
That’s factually false–not only because of the long history
of Iranian aggression listed above, but because a nuclear Iran would pose a
direct future threat not just to the so-called “Little Satan” in Israel, but
also to “the Middle Satan” (Europe) and “the Big Satan,” the United States.
This narrative is dangerous. When Iran retaliates against
the U.S., any American casualties will likely be blamed on Israel by those
misled by a media that is reporting inaccurately and irresponsibly.
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The New York Times headline
reads, “With Decision to Bomb Iran, Trump Injects US Into Middle
East Conflict.” The truth is the Iranian regime injected the U.S.
into the conflict immediately when it took power, and it had nothing to do with
Israel. The sub-head is even worse, with its claim that “the US has joined
Israel’s war against the country.” Why does The New York Times get to decide
that only Israel can be involved in stopping a maniacal regime from getting
nukes?
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The Associated Press headline is no
better: “US Inserts Itself
Into War Between Israel and Iran.” Foundation for Defense of Democracies CEO Mark
Dubowitz said: “Most people don’t get this: Khamenei gave his nuclear
weapons scientists permission — for the first time — to creep toward a warhead
DURING talks with Trump & Witkoff. That was the tripwire. Crossed.
Detected. Understood. The reason Israeli strikes began.”
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Reuters described
“Trump’s decision to join Israel’s military campaign against its major
rival Iran [as] a major escalation of the conflict [that also] risks opening a
new era of instability in the Middle East.” Keep in mind, this was in a news
article, not an analysis–this is the view of journalists Phil Stewart and Steve
Holland who think the move will cause instability in the same Middle East that
has been through 625 days of war on seven fronts. Perhaps stopping a
nuclear-armed regime whose proxies have destabilized the region for decades
might actually increase stability, Phil and Steve?
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MSNBC columnist
Nayyera Haq described “the volatile leaders of Iran or Israel” in
speculating what might come next. But the democratically elected leaders of
Israel are not morally or politically equivalent to the oppressive clerics and
unelected strongmen of Iran. As Trump himself has noted, Iran had plenty of
chances to avoid war.
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BBC’s Middle East bureau chief Jo Floto wrote: “If Netanyahu’s
tone was triumphant, and the smile barely suppressed, it is hardly surprising.
He has spent most of his political career obsessed with the threat he believes
Iran poses to Israel.” But it isn’t just Netanyahu. Stopping Iran’s pursuit of
a nuclear weapon is a consensus issue in Israel, not a personal “obsession.”
Calling it that implies irrationality when the threat is existential. Floto
also credited Netanyahu with “changing the mind of a U.S. president who
campaigned against overseas military adventures,” ignoring Trump’s repeated
public declarations that he would take any necessary action to stop Iran’s
nuclearization.
These examples reflect a broader pattern of dishonest
reporting on the U.S. strike on Fordow. If this trend continues, there’s a
serious risk that antisemites and anti-Israel extremists in the U.S. will
respond with violence, targeting American Jews for what was a legitimate
decision by the president to defend his own country.
It’s not too late for the international press to
course-correct–to report accurately, and place the attacks in their proper
historical context–before false narratives ignite a wave of anti-Israel or
antisemitic backlash at home.