The world media spins against Israel yet again. And of course, here’s how it works. A barrage of rockets into Israel on the morning of the peace talks comes fifteen paragraphs into the main AP story released a few minutes ago. That’s right. It doesn’t come into the lede at all. It comes into the story 12 paragraphs in in the earlier version, which had the strange headline “Israel, Palestinians launch peace talks in discord” (now turned into “Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Resume”
And here are paragraphs eleven and twelve of that strangely-headlined Reuters story:
Israel regularly launches raids into the Gaza Strip to try to stop militants firing rockets and mortar bombs into southern Israel. Olmert said late on Tuesday the Jewish state would “not stop” until it removed the rocket threat.
The militant group Islamic Jihad said it fired 14 rockets into Israel on Wednesday and vowed to keep up attacks. An army spokeswoman said at least 16 rockets and mortars were fired. There were no reports of casualties in southern Israel.
I say strange, because apparently the discord is all caused by this:
Palestinians said on Wednesday they had demanded a halt to Israeli plans to build on occupied land when negotiators launched peace talks aimed at reaching a deal on Palestinian statehood by the end of 2008.
[…] Wednesday’s talks, which lasted for about 90 minutes, went ahead despite calls by some Palestinians for a boycott over Israeli plans to build new houses on occupied land in the Jerusalem area. Palestinian leaders decided to attend the talks but to focus on pressing Israel to freeze settlement building.
The first half of the article is all about Har Homa. The media has learned its job well. Its job, of course, is to push the Palestinian agenda and ignore the deaths and injuries of Israelis.
And watch this comparison of “complaints.”
Discussing Wednesday’s talks, an Israeli official confirmed the Palestinians complained about Har Homa, Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank and Israeli military activity in Gaza.
“We really wanted to see it as a procedural meeting in good spirit … They created a tense atmosphere,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the meeting with the media.
The official said Israel complained about ongoing Palestinian rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Early Wednesday, Palestinian militants fired 16 homemade rockets toward Israel, causing minor damage and lightly wounding one woman, Israeli officials said.
The barrage came hours after Israeli forces ended a broad incursion into the coastal strip that killed six militants and left a wide swath of damage in its wake.
You see? Israel is building new homes, and that’s harming the peace talks. The Palestinians are wounding and attempting to murder Israelis, and that’s harming the peace talks. Same thing, right?
It is in the eyes of the rest of the world, apparently.
Really, I know I’ve written this at least a thousand times before, but I cannot believe how the world utterly ignores the terrorism against Israel, and focuses instead on the “injustice” of the Palestinians. You know what the Palestinians need to do? Suck. It. Up.
But they never will, because the world keeps on handing them money and refusing to make them responsible for ending the incitement, terror, and murder that they’ve been doing for the past sixty years. The peace talks? Oh, they’re failing because Israel refuses to submit to the will of Fatah (and Hamas and PIJ and all the rest).
What time is it? That’s right, folks. It’s Israeli Double Standard Time. Only on a day of the week that ends with a “y.”