{"id":23045,"date":"2015-05-18T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/05\/18\/letter-questionable-source\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:03:09","slug":"letter-questionable-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/opinion\/2015\/05\/18\/letter-questionable-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Questionable Source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" alternate=\"Palestinian emergency services extinguish smoke in\" assetid=\"27548303\" assettype=\"image\" class=\"imgAsset middle\" credit=\"MAHMUD HAMS\/AFP\/Getty Images\" cutline=\"Palestinian emergency services extinguish smoke in the remains of a building destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City in 2014.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/bb36a1c508d300138d7ebac84ee3b457bc87e642\/r=500x319\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/05\/18\/DefenseNews\/DefenseNews\/635675663764621475-DFN-Letter-0518.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA [ID=27548303]\" width=\"245px\"\/><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barbara Opall-Rome&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/policy-budget\/warfare\/2015\/05\/04\/israel-gaza-idf-report-palestinian-breaking-silence-rules-engagement-civilian\/26868281\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/policy-budget\/warfare\/2015\/05\/04\/israel-gaza-idf-report-palestinian-breaking-silence-rules-engagement-civilian\/26868281\/\">&#8220;Report Cites Shift in Israeli War Doctrine&#8221; [DefenseNews.com, May 5]<\/a> repeats, without any qualifications, a report by a group called Breaking the Silence (BtS) that alleges abuses by Israeli soldiers in the 2014 Gaza strip fighting. Defense News treats the group as a reliable news source and fails to raise essential questions about its credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article fails to note that BtS receives extensive foreign funding for smearing Israel. According to the watchdog group NGO Monitor, grants to the organization from Danish, British, Irish and Swedish sources are contingent on BtS collecting negative testimonies and accounts that portray Israel in a negative light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article repeats BtS co-founder Yehuda Shaul&#8217;s claim that this report isn&#8217;t for international bodies such as the United Nations. &#8220;We&#8217;re Israelis. Our focus is here,&#8221; Shaul says. However, the group&#8217;s extensive lobbying, speaking tours and press releases in Europe and the US \u2014 largely out of country and largely in English (not Hebrew) \u2014 speak volumes about its intended foreign audience and intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense News fails to question BtS methods or its &#8220;data.&#8221; While noting that the organization claims to have &#8220;published transcripts and essays from some 70 IDF [Israel Defense Force] combatants of a 50-day war that killed 73 Israelis \u2014 67 of them soldiers,&#8221; the article fails to mention that this is a miniscule portion of the thousands of Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza in a war started by Hamas launching rockets targeting Israeli civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BtS traffics in anonymous testimonies and allegations, as The Washington Post noted (&#8220;Israeli veterans say permissive rules of engagement fueled Gaza carnage,&#8221; May 5) in covering the group&#8217;s claims. 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