In week two, the war against Iran and Hezbollah came home to America.Naturally, much of the media were on the wrong side.
The battle on the homefront has been simmering since the first bombs fell in the Mideast on Feb. 28, but violence in America reached a chilling new ferocity during two more terror attacks last Thursday.
One took place at a college in Virginia and another at a synagogue in Michigan.
In both cases, the assailants were Muslim immigrants who had become naturalized American citizens.
But each man also had a known or suspected history of ties to terror groups in his native countries.
One had served seven years in federal prison after authorities proved his links to Islamic State terrorists and that he was plotting a deadly attack on an American military base.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a native of Sierra Leone, carried out a version of that sick fantasy at Old Dominion University, when he barged into an ROTC class, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” shot and killed the instructor, and wounded two other people.
Heroic cadets jumped him and stabbed him to death before he could fire again.
The slain instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, was a decorated chair of the school’s military science department.
He served several army tours in the Mideast, including in Iraq, where he was a helicopter pilot.
FBI director Kash Patel hailed the students, saying their actions “undoubtedly saved lives.”
Thankfully, the only fatality at the Michigan synagogue was the attacker, with officials saying he shot himself in the head after driving his pick-up truck into the building’s entrance.
Ayman Mohamed Ghazali (pictured), a native of Lebanon, who lived about 40 miles away from Temple Israel synagogue (inset), had filled his truck with commercial-grade fireworks and cans of gasoline.
He obviously intended to detonate his cargo inside the building, but got stuck in the entrance and couldn’t move.
As he exchanged gunfire with security guards, his truck’s engine started smoking and burst into flames.
The building filled with smoke, but none of the 106 children and 30 staff members at an early childhood center were injured.
One guard was hit by the truck but is expected make a full recovery.
The attack raised the already high concerns about violent antisemitism to new heights at a time when Israel and America are carrying out joint military operations against Islamist extremists in Iran and Lebanon.
Ghazali had been on law enforcement’s radar since at least 2019 for possible connections to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, who are trained and funded by Iran.
Hate taints coverage
Ghazali was questioned by federal authorities that year in Atlanta when he returned from a trip abroad, The Post reports.
His case points up another disturbing issue — much of the homefront media coverage can’t be trusted.
The problem is that the legacy outlets’ hatred of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has metastasized into warped coverage of the war in Iran and Lebanon.
As a result, their reports are often more like disinformation than information.
Consider how the headline on a New York Times’ account of the synagogue attack drips with bias and misleads the reader about a possible motive.
Saturday’s print edition reads, “Synagogue Attacker Lost Family Members In Lebanon Airstrike.” --->READ MORE HERE
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