Yeah, and I’m the Easter Bunny: Iran says it penetrated the Mossad and is currently holding onto ten or so “spies.” Because it’s not like they don’t call someone a spy, arrest and convict him on no evidence (especially if they’re in the opposition). Of course it does, and yet, the wire services breathlessly report the capture of spies without quote marks or explanation.
Enough about the Arizona shooter, let’s talk about me: Julian Assange is not happy that the world’s focus is away from him, and so, he says he’s speeding up the release of Wikileaks documents. (You think my interpretation is a little harsh? I don’t.)
The AP and the fiction of the Hamas “truce”: Yep, like clockwork, Hamas tells the AP it’s trying to stop the rocket fire into Israel (three hit Ashkelon yesterday, one today), and as always, the AP passes along uncritically the narrative that Hamas can’t control the “militants” in the Gaza Strip. This is the same narrative we used to read about Yasser Arafat and Hamas. He couldn’t stop them from launching terror attacks, you see. Except that he could, and did, and when he wanted to wrangle more money out of the West, he’d let Hamas off its leash to murder more Israelis. They would, Israel would send the IDF after the terrorists, civilians would get caught in the crossfire, and the world would blame—Israel. The leaders have changed. The narrative has not. By the way, watch for the breathless tale of Israeli “retaliation”—as if Israel doesn’t have the right to stop Hamas from murdering its citizens.
“Hamas can’t control the ‘militants’ ”
Right, and the Mafia can’t control the hitmen.