Deutsche Welle Misreports Latest Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem
Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international news service providing news in multiple languages online, on satellite TV and radio. Judging, however, from their report on the latest terrorist attack in Jerusalem, they cannot be trusted to report accurately in an unbiased fashion. Consider this headline and lede:
Was this indeed a case of a trigger-happy, brutal police force assassinating a “suspect” without giving him the benefit of a trial? This is the likeliest conclusion to be drawn from Deutsche Welle’s distorted report.
But, in fact, the terrorist — 39-year-old Mousabah Abu Sabih of the eastern Jerusalem Silwan neighborhood, who had been previously indicted for incitement to terrorism and who was reportedly supposed to begin a 4-month incarceration today for assaulting a policeman– went on a shooting spree and was in the midst of a murderous rampage when he was shot dead by border police. He had just critically wounded a Yasam special patrol officer, who later died of his wounds in hospital, as well as wounding a second officer. This came after he had critically shot a 60-year-old woman who later died of her wounds– and wounded many others as he shot at people from the window of his car. He was not a “suspect” in an incident that was in dispute, but an active shooter who was in the midst of trying to kill as many people as he could.
The terrorist was reportedly a member of Hamas, whose spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, praised the attack and called it a confirmation of the intifada, urging an escalation in attacks. Islamic Jihad praised the attack, as well, while Fatah honored the terrorist as a “martyr”.
But, of course, Deutsche Welle, reported none of this, spinning the story– drawn from Reuters, AFP, and AP — in an entirely different direction,and in the process revealing itself as more of a propaganda site than a legitmate news agency.
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