It’s the Arms Smuggling, Stupid

The Guardian's Harriet Sherwood had an exciting time with Gaza fishermen who regularly encounter the Israeli navy enforcing a three-mile…

By Pesach Benson July 21, 2011

The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood had an exciting time with Gaza fishermen who regularly encounter the Israeli navy enforcing a three-mile limit.

 

Although The Guardian’s been-there done-that, you wouldn’t know it from any of her 46 tweets that Israel’s doing this because of Hamas weapons smuggling. They openly brag that they’re smuggling Grad missiles and more by sea.

Tweet that, Harriet.

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Pesach Benson

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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