Nine's Soft Ball Interview with Sydney March Organiser

And mainstream media wonder why fewer and fewer people are tuning in

In the wake of Monday’s now widely condemned pro-Hamas march on the Opera House, Nine News decided to lob gentle questions at one of the organisers in prime time.

You can watch it here.

Reporter Davina Smith interviewed march facilitator Assala Sayara and, amazingly, in four and a half minutes of air time didn’t find even a moment to ask about those “gas the Jews” chants that were broadcast around the world.

Nor did the reporter ask about the “f*k the Jews” chants.

There wasn’t even a question about how protestors could celebrate the slaughter of Israelis, including a 66-year-old grandmother from Australia.

The interview began, instead, with this introduction …

“Last night was quite a night …”

I almost choked on my dinner.

I mean, it certainly was “quite a night”! It’s not everyday you get to burn the Israeli flag on the steps of the Opera House while calling for Jews to be gassed to death.

Smiling sympathetically, the reporter continued …

“How is everyone in the Palestinian community feeling today?”

I imagined Sayara might have answered that protestors were feeling a darn sight better than Australian Jews who had been told by police to stay at home for their own safety.

As an aside, I’m not sure Nine News should be holding up an organiser of Monday’s march as representative of all Palestinian Australians. I know some who were horrified by what happened at the march. (I would encourage people to keep that in mind in the comments section of this article) But I digress.

Sayara replied that Palestinians had “mixed emotions”.

Really? It did seem hatred was the overwhelming emotion expressed by Hamas supporters marching through the Sydney CBD on Monday night.

“Saddened with the suffering and pain that we have been facing to this day,” she said.

Before adding …

“Proud of the resilience and resistance of the Palestinian people.”

Wait. You’re proud of Hamas terrorists going house to house slaughtering civilians - many of them children - in cold blood?

You’re proud of Hamas terrorists shooting up a dance party, murdering 260 young people, many of them international tourists?

That’s what you call resilience and resistance?

We’ll never know the answer to those questions because they were never asked.

Instead, the reporter moved to soft ball question number two …

“Why did you think it was important to have a march in Sydney last night?”

Oh my god. Seriously?

Sayara said …

“ … it was important to be on the streets of Sydney last night because we look for every opportunity to vocalise our stance against Israeli occupation”.

The reporter did not challenge the false claim that Gaza was occupied. The Israelis got out of Gaza in 2005. Since 2007 Gaza has been under the vice-like grip of Hamas who have impoverished Palestinian people while waging endless jihad.

But whatever.

Main stream news is no place to be spitting facts.

Sayara continued …

“We want to say we as Palestinians - anyone who is human - will remember to take any opportunity to say no to injustice, to genocide, to colonisation.”

Wait. What?

You and your group took to the streets chanting “gas the Jews” in order to protest genocide?

Really?

Next you’ll be chanting “kick all kittens” to protest cruelty to animals.

And riddle me this. How is it that Muslims built a mosque over the top of the Jewish Temple Mount, but it’s the Jews who are the colonisers?

Archeological digs in Israel recover Jewish artefacts, not Palestinian ones.

None of this occurred to the Nine News reporter who, smiling, continued lobbing soft balls to the pro-Hamas march convener.

She mentioned that NSW Premier Chris Minns had condemned the march, asking …

“There has been some criticism. Is that fair?”

To which Sayara replied:

“His comment is completely unfair. And the reason to this is because as usual context is always taken out of place. And to just remind the people of the context he chooses not to see is that Palestine is actually a colonised land. It is the Palestinian people who is being killed.”

This, as Hamas had conspired to slaughter more Jews than had been killed in a single day since the Holocaust - most of them civilians.

The interview had quickly become nothing but a platform for Hamas talking points.

The reporter asked …

“The police have said they will review security footage from last night. They’ve warned that charges could be laid particularly if there were people supporting Hamas because it’s declared a terrorist organisation in Australia. Are you worried you could see people charged from last night?

Sayara wasn’t worried. She accused the Australian government of wrongly framing terror organisation Hamas as a terror organisation.

The reporter didn’t think to ask if the US, Canada, Japan and more than 20 EU nations were also wrong to “frame” the baby-beheading saints of Hamas as terrorists.

“Are you planning more action?” the reporter asked.

“Yes”, was the reply.

And then this final question …

“The Police Minister says approvals (for the march) were not in place. Is it true?”

Sayara assured Nine News that the Police Minister was wrong. Approvals had been in place, she assured viewers.

Well okay then. If the organiser of a march that saw hundreds of people descending on the Opera House to burn Israeli flags, fire off flares and chant “gas the Jews” reckons she filled out the paperwork, I guess the whole thing really was just a bit of a storm in a tea cup.

“Thank you so much for your time this afternoon,” the reporter smiled.

And people main stream media wonder why fewer and fewer people are bothering to tune in.