Your Sunday morning AP bias

There is no story that the AP can’t immediately slant anti-Israel. First, let’s look at the story in the Israeli press:

Police: Truck driver kills 2 Palestinian robbers
A tow truck driver from Ashkelon shot to death two Palestinians on Sunday which he claims had tried to rob him in the south Mount Hebron area. Another Palestinian was injured in the incident.

Sources at the Shai District police said that the driver, in his 30s, was beaten by the Palestinians with a Swedish wrench and was lightly injured. Despite his injury, the driver shot at the suspects who were killed as a result. The Palestinians’ bodies were taken to a Palestinian hospital in Hebron.

Now let’s look at the first two paragraphs of the AP story, which is all of four paragraphs long:

Israeli driver kills 2 Palestinians, wounds 1
Palestinian medical officials say two Palestinians have been killed and one was wounded in a shooting by an Israeli driver in the West Bank.

Ziyad Abu Zahara, acting manager of a hospital near the city of Hebron, says the two men died from gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

Note how the context is completely removed. The AP does not report that the Palestinians were trying to rob the driver.

Ha’aretz does.

Israeli man kills two Palestinian assailants after attacked in West Bank incident
An Israeli truck driver shot and killed two Palestinians on Sunday morning during what appears to have been an attempted robbery. According to the driver, three Palestinian men blocked his path in south Mount Hebron, attempted to forcefully extract him from his vehicle and hit him with a blunt object. The driver said he struggled with the men and shot at them.

Police are investigating the possibility that the Palestinian men had attempted to abduct the driver.

The AFP does.

2 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli lorry driver: Police
Two Palestinians were shot dead by an Israeli truck driver after they tried to steal his vehicle in the south Hebron Hills on Sunday morning, Israeli police said.

Reuters does.

Israeli kills 2 Palestinians, says they attacked him
An Israeli tow truck driver shot and killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and told Israeli police he opened fire after they attacked him and tried to steal his vehicle.

All of the above stories describe the robbery in the first two paragraphs–except for the AP. Here’s the rest of the AP story.

The Israeli military says the Israeli truck driver opened fire in self-defense after three Palestinians ambushed his vehicle, beat him and tried to pull him out. It says the driver is being treated at an Israeli hospital, and an investigation is continuing.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the shooting.

Not a word about the attempted robbery. The headline is simply “Israeli driver kills 2 Palestinians, wounds 1,” so you’ll think that the Israeli is at fault. That’s the AP anti-Israel narrative in a nutshell: An Israeli killed Palestinians, for no apparent reason at first, then, using the nameless “Israeli military”, the AP offers only vague details and gets a statement from Mahmoud Abbas condemning Israel.

Anti-Israel bias? Yeah, we’ve got that.