So, let’s take the word “truce.” It generally means a cessation of hostilities. Both sides agree to stop killing each other. Right? Right. A truce is when people actually stop, you know, shooting.
Now let us take this AP headline:
Palestinian cease-fire holds despite factional shootings
Do AP editors have absolutely no shame whatsoever? Do they think we are as stupid as they think we are?
Well, yes. Let’s look at the lede.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Hamas officials early today in separate attacks, marring efforts to shore up a truce that brought relative quiet to Gaza after days of deadly factional violence.
However, the three-day old cease-fire appeared to hold in the face of the shootings.
Early Thursday, unknown gunmen opened fire at Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum as he drove with three bodyguards in his white sedan toward an impromptu checkpoint near Gaza City, Hamas said. There were no casualties. A Hamas announcement blamed “coup-seekers,” meaning militants from the rival Fatah party.
“This is a violation of the (truce) agreement,” Barhoum said. He reported the incident to Egyptian mediators and the gunmen removed their checkpoint, he said.
Later Thursday, gunmen in a car shot at Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for a Hamas militia, Shahwan said, blaming the shooting on Fatah-affiliated security officers. One Hamas member was wounded, he said.
They even have a quote from a Hamas spokesman saying the truce is being violated, and yet, the AP insists, the truce is “holding.”
And so does Reuters!
Hamas ambushes Gaza convoy, four dead
Hamas gunmen ambushed what the Islamic group said was a convoy carrying weapons to Mahmoud Abbas’s presidential guard in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and four people were killed, residents said.Abbas’s Fatah faction said the four-truck convoy, which crossed into Gaza from Israel, was carrying medical equipment and tents, and accused Hamas of plunging a 3-day-old Palestinian ceasefire into “grave danger.”
It’s unbelievable.
Another 10 people were wounded in northern Gaza when Hamas raided a military intelligence post. Hamas said their forces came under fire first.
And finally, we have the latest update, when the AP is forced to admit that the “truce” is no longer:
Palestinian Cease-Fire Dissolves; 4 Dead
Gunfights between Hamas and Fatah gunmen erupted across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing four people, wounding several others and effectively destroying a three-day truce that brought a brief period of quiet to the volatile area.Hamas militants fired mortar shells near Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ residence in Gaza City and nearby street battles sent residents fleeing in terror. Some left their cars idling while they sought shelter.
Masked gunmen took up positions on rooftops, while others took cover in alleyways below. Abbas was not in Gaza at the time.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Call it a cease-fire until there’s open warfare.
These are the media outlets that supply most of the English-speaking world with print news.
Scary thought, really. They can’t even tell the difference between truce and war.
Until an AP, AFP, or Reuters reporter or visiting exec (that it’s a stringer showing off for his cousins) gets his brains blown out in the crossfire, the editors are going to engage in this derangement that it’s not what counts as a civil war there.
I’m thinking if you look closely enough, you’ll find a retarded Monolith in the middle of Gaza City.
Now I’m second to none in my hatred and contempt for these “news” organs, but I have to stick up for them on this one. I can’t tell the difference between a truce and a war when Palestinians are involved. Why expect more from the ignorant, biased, lazy and stupid “journalists” at the AP or al-Reuters?
Nothing astonishing here. A Palestinian cease-fire means “not a huge amount of firing.” Of course, if Israel does anything at all it has broken whatever cease-fire is the most recent to have been agreed upon.
In Arabic cease-fire means “reload”.