Tuesday “shaky truce” briefs

Sunny with a chance of missiles: Schools have been cancelled in southern Israel due to rocket attacks, and even the AP has noticed.

Damned if you do… Egypt has gotten Israel to postpone for 24 hours a stronger response to the dozens of rocket attacks in the last seven days. Why? Why wouldn’t Israel bring down the hammer on the attacks, and make a statement that Hamas will not forget? So much for the “kill or be killed” speech by Bibi. And oh, the AP is finally getting the timing of the attacks right, and putting the blame where it belongs. Mostly.

The Islamic Jihad faction had led the rocket attacks that began last week, but on Sunday agreed to stop the violence if Israel also did. Rocket fire that drew retaliatory Israeli airstrikes persisted afterward, but it was claimed by a different militant group, the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Gaza’s ruling Hamas group, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in past violence, has not directly been involved in the attacks. But Israel holds Hamas responsible for all violence from the territory.

Just like in the days when Yasser Arafat ruled the Palestinians, and the media covered for him by insisting he had no control over Hamas. Yet Hamas attacks stopped whenever Arafat wanted them stopped. And Hamas can stop the terrorists it controls from sending rockets into Israel. It doesn’t want to. Because some of the rocketeers were Hamas terrorists. The media, as always, carry the water for the terrorists.

Your media bias in action: Sending email critical of Israel? That doesn’t mean you can’t write objectively about the Jewish State, according to Reuters. They see no reason to fire or even discipline a reporter who sent the European Jewish Congress an unsolicited email criticizing Israel.

Last September EJC sent a press release to media outlets during the buildup to the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations. In the statement, the Jewish advocacy group urged European governments not to support the initiative arguing unilateral measures were detrimental to the peace process.

Kranjc, who is listed as the head of the Reuters television department at its Amsterdam bureau, responded from his work mailbox declaring his support for the Palestinian bid.

“I am going to support it!” he wrote in a two-lined message. “You have your state but you don’t want others to have their state. So sad.”

Why on earth would that make you think the reporter might reflect more sympathy to Palestinians in his writing? Don’t be ridiculous. That’s like saying the New York Times is a liberal news outlet!

Someone check for a pod under Richard Goldstone’s bed: Really, he’s been taken over by the body snatchers. This New York Times op-ed, which states firmly and effectively that Israel is not an apartheid state, was written by the man who gave his name to the Goldstone Report, and then followed that up with insisting that everything in the report was true. Someone seems to have done some mighty hard repentance this Yom Kippur. Countdown to the outraged shrieks of the anti-Israel crowd in three, two….