A.C. Depends on the wheelchair type and the motivation of the guy or gal pushing the wheels around?

Me, you've never seen a faster straight line wheelchair when I am sufficiently motivated? As I say, wheels if you can't go any faster? move over and let dis here body through!

And I dare say, could spin those wheels fast enough to cross a large body of water without getting the tootsies wet? Turbocharged blueprinted V8 power would assist! As would rocket-assisted takeoff.

In fact, as I pass him by, that streak they call the roadrunner would appear to be standing still? I'd be in the next county before he got off the start line? I could even pass myself coming back? Not called warp speed for nothing.
Alan B.

SR,

As Hamas controlled the MEE, and military members were often seen at their offices, the MEE was not a news agency in the form that CNN or Reuters ever were and at best was simply a mouthpiece for Hamas.

Given Hamas's record of hiding military assets at schools and hospitals, it is more than likely that Israeli intelligence was right on the money.

#Steele Redux

You state:
"He even bloody contradicts himself because he first claimed “Middle East Eye (MEE) - an increasingly prominent web portal - often obscures its finances, but it increasingly fills the gap as Qatar's chief agent of influence.”

I didn't make the claim. I was quoting from the 2017 expose.

The article then went on to claim:
"Delving into the details of MEE, however, show that it acts far less as a traditional journalistic outlet and far more as an English-language front for Qatari-supported groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas."

That could hardly be called a contradiction - but rather an amplification of the role played by MEE in the media propaganda war waged by Hamas on Israel.

Guess you think the best way to cover up the message is to shoot the messenger. It doesn't work mate.

David Singer,

Sure, let's go after the messenger.

Your link is to an article on Coptic Christian website and written by a Jewish author who is a visiting fellow at the right wing think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

This bloke writes such riveting pieces such as “Biden kills pipelines at home but promotes them for the Taliban”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-kills-pipelines-at-home-but-promotes-them-for-the-taliban

Of course it was all crap.
http://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-pipeline-taliban-idUSL1N2LM201

Quote:

The two projects were only linked when a former Pentagon official and frequent Biden critic Michael Rubin wrote in a Washington Examiner opinion piece after the Keystone permit was revoked that “Biden is promoting a pipeline to enrich both one of the world’s worst dictatorships and a group responsible for thousands of U.S. deaths.” (here)
There is no evidence that Biden has ever spoken about such a pipeline as president or personally promoted the deal. His comments related to the Taliban, a militant group that once ruled Afghanistan, have focused on stationing U.S. troops in Afghanistan (here , here ).
Meanwhile, the government is not pushing a pipeline for the Taliban or directly supporting the TAPI project, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said. In an email to Reuters they said: “The United States played no role in the Taliban’s visit to Turkmenistan in February and is in no position to comment on those discussions. The U.S. Government is not providing any direct financial support to the TAPI project.”

End quote

And yet this was your lynch pin fact that justified the destruction of the media offices in Gaza. The "2017 expose". For god's sake, get real. Laughable is a kind description of it.

You bloke has form, is not believable, and is rather blatantly biased.

SR,

You have cocked up again. What the first article claimed was:

1 Biden cancelled the keystone pipeline
2 Biden supported the Turkmenistan/ Afghanistan pipeline from which both Turkmenistan and the Taliban will profit.
3 That both the Turkmenistan and Taliban are tyrannical.

The second article disputes the timeline advocate by others but does not dispute any of the 3 points above.

#Armchair Critic

In response to your following comments:

1. "So the only actual thing you could find to get upset over was, 'conveniently omitting to include MEE's location'.
- That's it?"

Misleading your readers by omitting material facts is dishonest reporting.

2. "You're saying their denigrating and deligitimising the Jewish state
- Because they omitted to include MEE's location?"

Yes - by creating the impression that Israel had no reason for destroying a building which housed an important Hamas asset - its media arm.

3. What if they had've included it?
What would've been your gripe then?
That they're somehow now associated or affiliated with MEE?"

No.

4. "You yourself even linked the article where MEE stated 'Israel bombs Gaza building used by Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera and AP'
- What are you accusing MEE of?
- Reporting the truth?"

MEE initially confirmed its location in the building but a subsequent article by its editor David Hearst did not. Wonder why? I did and the result was my article.

5. Are you just angry the MEE reports news at all?
- Trying to make sense of this, David -
Nothing in any of the MEE articles I just looked at seem to be 'Designed to whip up anti-Israel hatred'
- It's just news reporting -"

Take your blinkers off. Hamas is a Jew-hating organisation dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish State and its media arm spews out Jew-hatred on a daily basis.

6. "And so what because MEE is in the building that's somehow justification for 'Israel's demolition of the 14 storey building'?

Housing Hamas's rockets and other assets in commercial and residential buildings make them military targets justifying their demolition.

7. "Your gripe is Al Jazeera and AP omitting MME's location?
Is that right?"

Correct. Typifies lack of honest, objective and critical reporting coming out of Gaza.

8. "Do you comprehend the concept that Israel blowing up media buildings might garner criticism?
denigrate means 'criticise unfairly'"

Yes. But the situation is very different if one knows the propaganda media arm of Hamas was located in that building