This is CBS, I On the World. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my good colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution, writing his column at Real Clear Politics.

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Peter, a very good evening to you.

Thank you very much for this.

My contribution to the mendacity of major media on the planet

is over these last weeks, because I pay a great deal of attention to the Financial Times,

the pink newspaper out of London.

It does not have a dog in the

fight of Trump, this, Trump, that. So I read it carefully, knowing that it's written by mostly

Oxbridge labor, but that's fine. That's politics in Britain. However, repeatedly now,

the robot reader in the morning when it comes to the Gaza conflict still underway, mentions a number.

Most recently my memory is 52,000 get dead in the struggle in the combat.

According to Palestinian officials.

That's it, Peter.

According to Palestinian officials, There is no more immediate

illustration of the prejudices, an inadequate word, but I'll use it, of major media reporting

this war than Palestinian officials. Good evening to you, Peter.

Good evening, John, and of course you're right. Who are these Palestinian officials?

We're talking about numbers that come from the Hamas health ministry.

Hamas, numbers of Hamas are jihadists who perpetrate massacres, who lie freely to the West. Moreover, we know, this we know for sure,

which is that the Hamas Health Ministry does not distinguish between combatant deaths and non-combatant

deaths. So they include Hamas fighters in that number of 52,000, they were reported by the Hamas

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