Soccer Dad

Did a hamas lie find its way into a washington post headline?

Noah Pollak observed about a headline in the Washington Post alleging that Israel had rejected a truce with Hamas:

But nothing of the sort happened; no truce has been offered by anyone involved, least of all Hamas, and there is nothing in the story that even begins to substantiate the claim made in the headline. The headline is simply fabricated from whole cloth, a piece of naked propaganda designed to portray Israel as an unreasonable aggressor.

Mere Rhetoric, Meryl and Elder of Ziyon noticed something else: The AP uncritically reported a false claim of Hamas that Israel had violated a truce understanding over the weekend.

This raises the question: Did the Washington Post's headline writer decide to insert his own take on the conflict into the headline based on the false AP report?

Crossposted on Yourish.