Thursday briefs

It’s a rocket-filled truce: The AP whitewashes and slants the story, as Hamas pretends to offer a truce while still firing rockets at Israeli civilians. And this used to be the lead sentence:

After a deadly cross-border raid, a new round of tit-for-tat bombings and rocket fire has torn apart Gaza and parts of Israel

Now it’s this:

Amid spiraling violence, the military wing of Hamas said Wednesday it is ready to declare an Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel, according to multiple reports.

Your objective media at work.

What’s wrong with this headline? Take a moment. I’ll wait.

Alice Walker rejects Israeli translation of “The Color Purple”

Is there a language out there called “Israeli”? Has there ever been? No? Then Alice Walker is refusing to publish the book in Hebrew, which is the language of the Jewish people and has been for thousands of years. Anti-Semitic, much?

Playing both sides: Say, that ship that Russia said wasn’t carry military helicopters to Syria? Well, yeah, it was.

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