The New York Times continues to refer to the Gaza conflict as the culmination of mutual acts of kidnapping and murder. Once again, they have forgotten to mention the massive rocket barrages that Israel was subjected to, eventually requiring an Israeli response.
According to the Times:
After the boys’ bodies were found in a ditch near Hebron, three Jewish extremists snatched a Palestinian teenager from his East Jerusalem neighborhood and burned him alive in an apparent revenge attack, according to the Israeli authorities; they have been indicted on murder charges.
The 50-day war that killed nearly 2,200 people in the Gaza Strip and more than 70 on the Israeli side began soon after.
We have said it before and we shall do so again. To write about the conflict without mentioning the rockets that presaged the Israeli military operation is simply a lie.
Before a single Israeli shot was fired into Gaza, Hamas began launching rockets aimed at Jewish communities near the border. These rocket attacks are a clear act of war and there is not a country on the planet that would not be justified in fighting back.
Yet the mere possibility that Israel was justified in its actions in Gaza simply does not fit the Times’ narrative of an out-of-control cycle of violence. So they pretend the rockets didn’t exist (much in the same way during the conflict they pretended that Hamas’ use of human shields and intimidation of journalists didn’t exist.)
Leaving out the rocket attacks is leaving out a crucial element of the conflict. But this is the New York Times, whose motto should be “all the news that — according to our bias — is fit to print.”
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