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Generally holding

Media Backspin notes that AFP has a strange way of categorizing a truce as generally holding.

Elder of Ziyon has a handy dandy calendar that lets us know which days the ceasefire held.

Has it generally held or is it fragile as Mere Rhetoric observes.

Meryl Yourish isn't so circumspect. The ceasefire's an "utter sham"! Who'd have thought that. She's being much too negative isn't she?

But the Baltimore Sun recently described the situation in Gaza like this:

A two-day-old truce that had halted factional violence was in shreds yesterday as fresh gunbattles broke out between Hamas and Fatah militants, leaving analysts wondering if any truce would be strong enough to calm the conflict.

So it seems that continuing violence in Gaza can shred a truce. (I remembered this paragraph incorrectly.) But Qassams against Israel proper apparently don't.

Crossposted on Israpundit and Soccer Dad.

Blogdigger tags: Media Bias, Qassams, Gaza, Truce, Ceasefire.

Posted by SoccerDad at December 26, 2006 4:33 PM