Around the world in media bias

Let’s take a look at how the media is spinning Hamas’ renewal of terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. From Canada:

Israel, Hamas escalate hostilities with weekend attacks
JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas, the Islamic movement that now controls the Palestinian Authority, exchanged fire throughout the day yesterday as the two sides edged closer to full hostilities.

Hamas ended a 16-month truce and resumed rocket attacks against Israel over the weekend after a series of Israeli strikes on Thursday and Friday left 16 people dead, including a senior Palestinian Authority official Israel said was a wanted “terrorist.”

Four Israelis were hurt yesterday, one critically, as seven homemade Qassam rockets, most of them claimed by Hamas, fell on the southern town of Sderot. Two Hamas militants were killed in an Israeli air strike yesterday on the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which in the 4½ years before the truce was responsible for a wave of suicide bombings in Israeli cities that killed hundreds of people, threatened to turn Sderot, on the edge of the Gaza Strip, into a “ghost town.”

Note the moral equivalence: Hamas’ attacks on civilians are equated with Israel’s attacks on the terrorists who are making the attacks. Note the scare quotes around terrorist, and, of course, the headline — “escalate hostilities,” as if Hamas has the right to drop bombs on Israeli schools.

Thanks, Canada! Good to know you’ve got an unbiased media up there, eh?

And let’s not forget, this article is brought to you by the land of CUPE, the union that schedules a vote on divesting from Israel on the Jewish Sabbath, thus making sure no religious Jews will vote against it. I guess the multiculturalism only goes so far. Or — wait, I almost forgot. It’s the Exception Clause. (That’s where you add the phrase, “Except for Israel” to any statement, like, “Canada is a multicultural nation and respects all other nations.” The corollary is “Except for Jews.”)

No, it’s not surprising. And it’s not new.