Spin, spin, spin

The AP spins the Israeli response to mortar attacks on her civilian population thusly:

Israel launched the weekend offensive following a rocket barrage from Gaza into nearby Israeli towns. It has carried out a series of airstrikes, killing four militants and destroying several weapons facilities, and has arrested more than 200 Palestinians. The fighting has destroyed any goodwill from the Gaza pullout and increased already intense pressure on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to confront militants.

Abbas has said his forces are not strong enough to take on militants, and that he fears civil war among the many armed groups in Gaza.

What goodwill? The goodwill that led to 40 rockets being fired into Israel after Hamas blew up its own people through its own negligence?

Wow, in every update, AP sinks lower. They removed the line about soldiers dancing (want to bet it was their palestinian stringer’s fevered imagination that made that one up, and no factual basis?), and now we have the above.

Israel continued its air campaign despite a call by Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar to end the group’s rocket attacks. Zahar spoke at a news conference late Sunday, hours after a pinpoint Israeli airstrike killed a top commander in the Islamic Jihad militant group.

Zahar said his Islamic militant group remained committed to a seven-month-old cease-fire and he wanted to prevent further Israeli attacks.

“We call on our military groups to stop their operations against the enemy from the Gaza Strip,” he said. Zahar also renewed a pledge to end Hamas’ military-style parades celebrating the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

There’s that context thing again. The AP quotes Hamas’ line on the truce without mentioning the suicide bombings, shootings, knifings, and planted bombs. Hamas has never been committed to a truce, only to a “hudna”–a pretend calm that is a time for re-arming and regrouping.

We finally get more information on the murderer of the Hatuels, but of course, AP whitewashes it. Couldn’t possibly reveal these murderers for the scum they truly are:

The attack killed Islamic Jihad’s top commander in southern Gaza, Mohammed Khalil, and his bodyguard as they drove on a coastal road.

The army said Khalil was responsible for the deaths of 17 Israelis, including a shooting attack that killed a pregnant woman and her four young daughters as they drove near a Jewish settlement in May 2004.

Oh, and they’re readying their excuses for the upcoming terror attacks:

Even if Hamas stops its rocket attacks, it remains unclear whether smaller militant groups would follow suit. Islamic Jihad’s top leader in Gaza, Mohammed al-Hindi, said the group would no longer observe the cease-fire following Sunday’s deadly airstrike.

“There is no talk of a truce. There is only room for talk of war,” al-Hindi said.

Thanks, AP, for giving us the terrorist line. And for establishing the excuse before the events occur. The copy will read that the terrorist attack is in “retaliation” for the IDF’s defending her people.

Spin, spin, spin. Always against Israel.