Soccer Dad

The missing killed

Two weeks ago Elder of Ziyon posted Grim Milestone in which he noted that, since the beginning of the year, 500 Palestinians had been killed by other Palestinians and that most of these deaths had occurred under the radar of the international media.

This week there was an excellent example of this occurring.

Yesterday Ynet (and other news organizations) reported that a clash between Hamas and two members of Hamas were killed.

Two Hamas security men were killed on Tuesday evening in heavy clashes with members of the Dogmush clan in Gaza.

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported on this story. (Each newspaper carries links to wire service stories, so it's possible that they linked to an AP or Reuters report; they didn't use their regular correspondents to report it though.)

However both papers reported on the Israeli incursion into Gaza in which 6 people were killed.

This perpetuates the false impression that Israel is the reason for the Palestinian/Israeli violence rather than the radicalism of the Palestinian groups like Hamas and Fatah.

Mere Rhetoric observes that the idea that one of the men killed was a civilian is a bit hard to buy.

And then there's this innocent civilian. According to the AP, he just happened to wander onto his roof - where snipers hang out - at the time of the firefight. He was then gunned down by heartless Zionists:

israel, hamas, media bias.

Posted by SoccerDad at August 16, 2007 5:30 AM