They were against smuggling weapons before they were for it: Say, remember a long, long time ago when the news media used to say Israel says Hamas is smuggling weapons through tunnels from Egypt? Like they really weren’t and Israel was just making it up? Yeah, they’re not bothering to play that game anymore. New boilerplate in an article about smugglers cutting through the Egyptian wall:
Hundreds of tunnels run under the border. They are used to import goods as well as weapons for Hamas.
Funny, how reality actually does catch up with the AP two or three years after the fact.
Speaking of the AP, they’re giving the ISM a tongue-bath: Ew. That concept is so gross I shouldn’t have used it. But the AP is falling all over itself to promote the Israel-hating ISM. They’re the ones that help Palestinian terrorists when the IDF comes to arrest them. Best quote of the whole thing:
One ISM veteran – a 23-year-old American calling herself Saegan – highlights an activist’s life. Like other volunteers, she would only identity herself with a pseudonym. During her 6 months with the group, she has been battered by tear gas alongside Palestinians, but also fended off a Palestinian man who tried to rape her while she slept in a West Bank village.
Ah, those grateful Palestinians. They want to make life easier for the people who put their lives on the line for them. I guess she must not have followed the rules:
But while most activists read about Mideast politics, volunteers can be clueless about conservative Palestinian culture. That’s led to tensions, including sexual harassment. Some Palestinians assume female activists are permissive because they don’t behave like conservative Palestinian women.
During last week’s workshop, Jamjoum, 52, laid the rules out. He asked women to cover their arms and legs. For men: long pants only. Another volunteer explained how to dodge sexual harassment.
Sure, you can come help the Palestinians. But first, change your entire way of life or suffer the consequences. Multiculturalism forever! No shorts!
As for the fabled AP evenhandedness, well, they give the Israelis a whole line in the next-to-last paragraph to rebut the ISM:
“They have become the useful idiots of Islamic extremists,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
True. But nobody’s going to read down that far. Ah, the unbiased media. We love them so.
“During her 6 months with the group, she has been battered by tear gas alongside Palestinians, but also fended off a Palestinian man who tried to rape her while she slept in a West Bank village.” – Those lilly-hearted balestines. He just want to have some ol’ friction with her. So cute! =D