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And I’m a Not Medical Writer . . .

Considering that the latest two-ship flotilla stunt is only carrying “symbolic aid” and that organizers readily admit that the real goal is to bust the Gaza blockade, this headline I spotted in The Australian requires…

Pesach Benson
November 3, 2011
12:00 am

Reading time: < 1 minutes

You might die laughing.

The Canadian Tahrir and the Irish Saoirse aren’t medical ships any more than I’m a medical writer.

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Tags: AFP, Gaza flotilla, headline bias, The Australian

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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