The IDF is learning: This time around, the IDF is immediately releasing videos of terrorists shooting rockets and drones hitting weapons warehouse. I don’t know why I can’t see the video on Ynet, though, as I don’t know what the Hebrew is telling me I’m missing. However, there’s an IDF YouTube channel where you can find the videos and see the secondary explosions of this PIJ weapons factory. “Metal shop” my ass.
No other nation in the world: Imagine that this was your neighborhood. Most Americans are no longer old enough to remember the weekly air raid siren, and the regular air raid drills schools held while I was growing up. Well, they’re not drills for Israelis. One million Israelis are under rocket fire, and have been for the last four days. No other nation would tolerate this, yet the world thinks Israel’s reactions are too harsh.
Let’s slant things even more anti-Israel! Like, say, this article in the Telegraph:
Middle East Quartet to meet as Gaza death toll climbs to 21
Got that? “Gaza death toll”–as if Israelis just decided to kill a bunch of Palestinians. The fact that all but two of them were terrorists? No biggie. You don’t get the news that 180 rockets have been fired at Israel until the tenth paragraph. This is a supposedly pro-Israel newspaper in Britain. Oh, and all of the pictures are of Palestinians. Not a one about rockets in Israel. Yeah, that’s some pro-Israel slant.
Now it’s “tit-for-tat violence”: Welcome to the new AP boilerplate.
A map of the rocket ranges: Rockets are landing farther north than ever, and here’s a good map depicting the areas in range.
Egypt warned the PRC beforehand: The new regime in Egypt told the PRC their leader was in danger of assassination, and that they couldn’t use the Sinai to stage terror attacks. Good to know that the Egyptians are so concerned about their own image. Of course they don’t care about Israeli lives. They never have.
An almost-balanced lead from the AP: Hold onto your socks. This lead reads almost right.
Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Monday and Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel, in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts.
The cross-border violence, touched off by Israel’s killing of a top militant leader on Friday, has been the worst exchange of fire between Israel and the Hamas-ruled territory in months.
The fighting so far has killed 21 Gazans, including 18 militants, seriously wounded two Israelis, and disrupted the lives of 1 million Israelis living within the range of Gaza rockets.
The only thing they get wrong is blaming the violence on Israel. The cause was a terror attack in the making, not the IDF killing the terror cell–no matter how many times the media say it is.