Check out the headline:
Rockets hit Israel, which says truce broken
Gee. The truce says no launching of rockets. Rockets were launched. Is the truce broken? The AP doesn’t know. It has to say that Israel says the truce was broken. Yet another example of your anti-Israel media bias. And we also have the AP carrying the terrorists’ justification for launching the rockets.
Police say three Palestinian rockets have hit southern Israel and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office says the cease-fire that took effect last week has been broken.
Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip says they carried out the attack to avenge an Israeli military raid that killed one of their fighters in the West Bank early Tuesday.
Israel’s national rescue service says two people were lightly wounded in the rocket barrage.
The West Bank is not formally part of the truce. But Islamic Jihad says it “cannot keep its hands tied” when its “brothers” in the West Bank are being targeted.
However, the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas group says it remains committed to the truce.
Notice how it carries both the Hamas and PIJ excuses.
It. Doesn’t. Matter.
The truce was broken the second those rockets headed towards Israel. (Actually, it was broken the second Hamas refused to stop smuggling, but we’ll ignore that for now.) The AP can’t bring itself to say so? Why is that?
Gee. Wonder who wrote that piece. There’s no byline. But I’m betting it wasn’t an Israeli.
In other news, Israel says that water is wet.
And as I have predicted, Israel will be urged to let this pass so as not to harm the peace process, and when it does something whatever it does will be deemed “yet another round in the cycle of violence that grips this war-torn land.”