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How did The Independent come up with this bizarro headline? Blair offers support to ‘trapped’ Gaza student who is trapped in Gaza Grammatical question: Do the quote marks around the first “trapped” contradict the second…

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How did The Independent come up with this bizarro headline?

Blair offers support to ‘trapped’ Gaza student who is trapped in Gaza

Grammatical question: Do the quote marks around the first “trapped” contradict the second appearance of that word?

UPDATE June 11: I see they fixed the problem. Trapped is still in quote marks.

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