Mere hours after I point out that the world media ignores the rockets falling on Israelis almost daily—from Gaza, which Israel left, hm, over a year ago now—the AP releases this news article:
JERUSALEM Sep 26, 2006 (AP)— Palestinian militants fired at least two rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel early Tuesday, wounding at least one person, Israel Radio reported.
One of the rockets fell in the town of Sderot and wounded a woman in the stomach, the radio said.
The Israeli army’s spokesman confirmed that one rocket fell near a farming community but did not immediately have details on a rocket falling in Sderot, or any injuries.
No, that’s not all of it. There’s one more paragraph. Remember, most daily newspapers publish the first three or four paragraphs of international news articles on their “International” page. The fourth paragraph?
Palestinians fire rockets into southern Israel almost daily but they rarely cause casualties. Israel began a large military operation in the Gaza Strip at the end of June in an effort to stop the rocket fire.
You see, the rockets get fired every day, but since no one gets hurt, they don’t count. Because it’s not like terrorists are trying to kill civilians on a daily basis. Gee, somehow, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International rarely seem to get their dander up when it’s Israeli lives at risk.
So the AP editors are on the right track by reading my blog, but there’s one hell of an anti-Israel bias that needs to go.