Israel-obsessed blogger Philip Weiss lies about he seeing “ruins” of hospital that isn’t ruined. The hospital is pictured at left, the place where the alleged terrorists were is at right.
Philip Weiss — “I’ve been to Gaza. I saw the ruins of the gene sequencing building at the Islamic University and of Al Quds Hospital.”
How do you see the ruins of a building that isn’t ruined? And spent a total of three to five days out of commission because of ruptured water pipes?
Those are some questions I ask in all seriousness to Philip Weiss who runs a well-known anti-Israel blog “Mondoweiss”. Philip went after my work on March 1. Weiss, a self-described “anti-Zionist,” goes after me, a student journalist, as he leaves some important details out.
To get answers I’ve applied to comment on his site — call me a glutton for punishment — but haven’t heard back yet. I thought I’d use this space to explain how it distorts what I said and how I said. For starters, there’s the title, “Dershowitz rides shotgun for student attacking Palestinian scholar and his wife in California.”
1. Professor Dershowitz read the material I had translated and we talked about it. No more, no less. When I was younger I worked for him and have written about him on this site and elsewhere. I consider him a friend as well as a mentor, though we often disagree, which was part of the reason I asked him to look at the material I sent him.
2. I’m not “attacking” anyone. I am using statements made by them in Arabic and in English and drawing it to the attention of the community. If Mondoweiss were credible and not headed by two anti-Israel zealots, it would mention that Professor Frangieh’s wife, Aleta Wenger, also works for the college as an “executive director.”
Moving along, the author accuses me of omissions and says that he visited the Hamas-linked Islamic University of Gaza which he says had been bombed by Israel. He neglects to mention that IUG was used to store dozens of rocket-propelled grenade launches, rockets, and assault rifles and thousands of bullets (this material was found by Fatah) or that Israeli intelligence alleged the university was being used to elongate the range of Qassam missiles.
He next says he saw the “ruins of al Quds Hospital.” Oh really? Then how does he explain this statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross about the hospital after the alleged attack?
Repair work at Al-Quds Hospital, which is run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), is under way after a quick assessment jointly carried out with ICRC staff. Water pipes supplying the facility were badly damaged by the shelling. Hospital services are expected to be back to normal in three to five days. The PRCS warehouse, which was also shelled on Thursday, was reduced to ashes. Very substantial stocks of relief goods were destroyed. (Jan. 17, 2009, Gaza: Civilians continue to suffer despite hopes for imminent cease-fire)
CAMERA has done excellent work showing that the alleged hospital was never bombed or shelled. And they have photographic proof.
Next, he notes that a large chunk of government professors at my college, Claremont McKenna, support my work and then writes, “I wonder how many of them know the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the role it is now playing in American politics…”
You mean the Joooz control it, too? Say, have you been talking with Frangieh? He, after all, believes a “Zionist-crusader” plot is behind America’s Middle East policy. I noticed that Weiss left that part out. I wonder why…
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