Israel's position here is overly generous. An NGO that is, by its own implicit acknowledgement, incapable of vetting for terrorists should not be operating in a war zone, full stop. Instead of immediately banning MSF, the Israeli government is volunteering to do MSF's vetting work for it.
MSF should jump at the chance. After all, Israel is undeniably more reliable in its vetting than is MSF or any other NGO.
And that is precisely why MSF and its defenders have refused to take the deal: It would be tantamount to admitting that Israel's information is far more likely to be accurate than anybody else's. The Committee to Protect Journalists, for example, can't seem to tell terrorists from civilians either. And we've known nearly from the beginning of the war that the UN agencies operating in Gaza were practically subsidiaries of Hamas.
Admitting that Israel is more reliable a source than anyone else in the theater would also remind the public how much the media have smeared the IDF with false allegations and false reporting-to say nothing of the made-up casualty figures journalistic institutions have run for over two years. And it would suggest that perhaps the entire narrative of the wider conflict has been misleading.
Get used to saying it: ‘Israel was right again’.
The world’s NGO-media complex would rather put untold lives in danger than swallow its pride and admit that the credibility of Israel, and only of Israel, remains intact. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #Jihadism #terrorism #NGOs