Your anti-Israel media bias at work
A 70-year-old woman was murdered by a PIJ kassam rocket, aided and abetted by the terrorist government of the Palestinians.
There is almost no notice of it in the major media outlets.
The AP barely mentions it in the lede of a story about Egypt’s intelligence chief coming to Israel to badger Israel to bow to Hamas’ demands. (More on that later. Here’s all the AP has to say:
Egypt dispatched its powerful intelligence chief to Israel on Monday in an attempt to mediate an end to months of violence in the Gaza Strip, but Israeli leaders said there would be no truce unless Gaza militants release an Israeli soldier they have held captive for nearly two years.
As mediator Omar Suleiman completed his talks, militants fired a rocket from Gaza that struck a house in an Israeli village, killing a 75-year-old woman, the military and rescue services said. Islamic Jihad said it fired rockets at the time of the fatal attack.
The rocket hit a house in the village of Yesha, 9 miles from Gaza, farther away than the usual targets of rockets fired by Gaza militants.
It’s buried in Reuters’ fourth paragraph about Suleiman’s trip. And blamed the Israelis for the lack of urgency regarding the death.
Shortly after Suleiman met Israeli leaders, Islamic Jihad militants launched a rocket which killed a 70-year-old Israeli woman at an agricultural community close to the border with the Gaza Strip, security and emergency services said.
But Israeli officials focused on Shalit’s fate — a hot domestic issue for an embattled Olmert as he fights for his political survival in the face of bribery accusations — in summing up the prime minister’s meeting with Suleiman.
You have to go to the U.K. to find the death of an old woman by rocket fire as the main angle of a story:
A 75 year old Israeli woman was killed yesterday by a rocket fired from Gaza as Israel suggested any truce in the Strip depended on the release of the Army corporal seized almost two years ago.
The woman died after the rocket struck a house in Yesha, nine miles from Gaza’s eastern border and further than the usual targets of Qassam rockets. Islamic Jihad said it had fired rockets at the time of the fatal attack.
Reuters finally focused on the killing, but nobody’s picking it up. And gee, look at the headline. Then look at the bolded line above from the Independent.
Rocket kills Israeli woman near Gaza border
MOSHAV YESHA, Israel, May 12 (Reuters) - A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli woman on Monday as she walked towards her house, Israeli emergency services and the army said.The woman was the second Israeli to be killed by rocket and mortar fire from the Hamas-controlled territory in less than a week. Medics said the woman was hit by a fragment and died instantly.
Really? Nine miles is “near the border”? Really? And the range of the kassam, according to Wikipedia, is 10-12 kilometers. But Reuters is busy whitewashing the attack by minimizing where the rocket fell. And oh, of course Reuters has to add this boilerplate to the end of the story:
Such rocket attacks rarely cause death or injury but sow panic in border towns. An Israeli army spokeswoman said militants had launched seven rockets on Monday and a total of 2000 missiles since the start of the year.
Two deaths in the last week, plus multiple injuries, but they “rarely” cause death or injury.” All they do is panic the inhabitants. In this case, to death. Along with metal shrapnel tearing into her body.
Gotta love the objective, unbiased media, whose only job is to tell the truth and inform the public. Right? Right? Right?
Riiiiiight.
