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rom this Daily Telegraph headline? You have to read the article to find out the “militant” was part of a squad preparing to launch rockets at Israel — after the truce was announced.

Pesach Benson
October 31, 2011
12:00 am

Reading time: < 1 minutes

rom this Daily Telegraph headline?

You have to read the article to find out the “militant” was part of a squad preparing to launch rockets at Israel — after the truce was announced.

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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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