Same-old, same-old AP bias

Yesterday, the IDF went a few yards into Gaza to destroy a tunnel that was going to be used to kidnap Israeli soldiers. Hama terrorists are really good at scurrying like rats underground, blowing up roads and parking lots on the Israeli side of the border, and popping up to grab any soldier that they haven’t killed so they can hold him in violation of all Geneva Conventions (because rules are for suckers, unless they’re Hamas rules) and try to use him as a pawn in getting thousands of their terrorists out of Israeli jails.

Hamas fought the IDF. The IDF won. Then Hamas did what Hamas does, and fired rockets at the Israeli civilian population as a “result” of the IDF operation. And the world media, of course, blamed Israel for breaking the truce.

Israel airstrike imperils Gaza truce with Hamas
Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers scrambled Wednesday to contain fallout from the worst fighting since a truce was declared five months ago, but a flare-up later in the day threatened to unravel it anew.

Gaza militants pounded southern Israel early Wednesday with dozens of rockets to avenge raids a day earlier that killed six militants, but the guns quickly fell silent with neither side appearing to have much to gain from renewed hostilities.

“We have no intention of violating the quiet,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on a tour of areas bordering Gaza. “But in any place where we need to thwart an action against Israeli soldiers and civilians, we will act.”

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the group fired deep into Israel to demonstrate the price of continued aggression. At the same time, he said, Hamas had contacted Egyptian mediators to find ways of keeping the truce intact.

But late Wednesday night, Israel launched another airstrike, killing a Palestinian militant in northern Gaza. The army said it was targeting a rocket launcher, whom the Islamic Jihad group identified as its own. The group had fired two rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot and one of its leaders, Khader Habib, declared the truce over.

Hamas, which agreed to the Egyptian-mediated truce, said Israel was breaching it.

Please note that the the second-to-last paragraph reads as follows:

Sporadic rocket attacks on southern Israel have persisted since the truce, but the attacks were carried out by smaller groups seeking to embarrass Hamas for preserving a truce with the Jewish state.

The AP presents the Hamas line completely, by insisting that Hamas had nothing to do with the rocket attacks, knowing full well that nobody sneezes in Gaza without asking Hamas’ permission. So the Hamas truce violations never “imperil” the truce.

The Guadian actually outright blamed Israel for violating the truce, but I refuse to link to that rag today. It’s too enraging, and, well, the British bias against Israel has been going on since before the modern state of Israel was created. In fact, British Arabists are largely responsible for the problems in the Middle East today. Had they not put the Sauds in place—if they had, for instance, put a moderate Islamic group on the Saudi throne—the world would be a very different place today.

But the media would still hate Israel. It’s a Jewish thing. Let’s be honest.