The Washington Post claims: “In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine”.
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“They’re trying to punish those who’ve taken control of Gaza but in fact they’re punishing everybody inside Gaza, a very small percentage of whom support the people who are controlling Gaza right now”. Oh really?
And we thought the Hamas won an election by a landslide…
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Did you see the interminable stream of “Israel rejects 48 hour truce” articles? You’d almost think that (a) Hamas wasn’t also categorically rejecting any renewed truce or (b) Hamas hasn’t always rejected any interest in a renewed truce. But since Hamas is categorically rejecting any renewed truce just like they’ve always done: kind of biased.
Submitted for your approval, the ten most obnoxious, offensive, or just plain stupid examples of anti-Israel media bias from last week.
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Responsibility for the war in Gaza, and for the Palestinian fatalities there, was placed squarely on Hamas by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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