The news the mainstream media won’t give you

A ten-year-old boy nearly lost his arm in a kassam rocket attack yesterday. A mother and one-year-old infant were also hurt. Bet you didn’t know either of these facts. Because the wire services choose not to highlight Israeli casualties of war, except when their ignoring the Sderot victims makes them look like they’re being negligent in their duties. Oh, oh, I don’t know, when their editors get tired of writing the same-old, same-old whitewashing of terrorism.

The facts are there. You just have to find them.

Ha’aretz has video of the aftermath of the kassam attack that wounded a 10-year-old boy. It’s as heart-wrenching as any video you’ve seen on ABC, CBS, NBC, or CNN of Palestinians. But you won’t see it there. Why? Good question.

In fact, although the kassam attacks that occurred after the so-called “peaceful” protest (which included a riot, described in the same articles that call the protest “peaceful”) yesterday, the attack barely rated a blip on the wire services’ Israel radar. You have to dig deeply into any of the AP stories to find that a child was severely wounded. You have to dig even deeper to find that a grown woman and her one-year-old infant were wounded. Well, deeper in the fact that the AP stories never carried that information. Hell, it took the AP eight paragraphs in their worldwide Hamas protest story before they acknowledge that anyone in Israel was hurt by the “crude, homemade missiles.”

Later Monday, militants fired 11 rockets at southern Israel, the military said. One seriously wounded a 10-year-old boy in the battered town of Sderot, just across the Gaza border.

Doctors said shrapnel cut through the boy’s shoulder, but surgeons were able to save his arm. Earlier this month, an 8-year-old boy in Sderot lost a leg in a rocket attack.

AFP put it in the next-to-last graf in a 26-graf article.

Meanwhile, an Israeli youth was moderately wounded when a rocket fired from Gaza hit the entrance to a housing complex in the southern city of Sderot, officials said.

And they justified it.

That attack came after four Palestinian militants were killed by Israel raids overnight.

I’d be outraged, but these are the same people who are blaming Muslim “youths” nightly rioting and torching of cars on poverty and failure to assimilate. The French are always ready to justify evil actions. The Vichy government wasn’t created in a vacuum.

I couldn’t find a word about it in Reuters, the BBC, or CNN. Guess it wasn’t their turn to publish the news of Israeli casualties of terrorists.

Omri found a mention in the LA Times, which uses the execrable phrase “parallel protest” when describing the kassam attack that nearly killed two children.

As Israelis watched nervously from across the border, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip staged parallel protests Monday against the Jewish state, placing a few thousand placard-waving demonstrators along the main highway and firing 11 rockets into Israel.

Sick. Twisted. That’s the only way to describe an article that calls firing weapons of death into a civilian town, hoping to randomly murder as many people as possible, a “protest.”

Here’s the story from a source that actually cares about reporting the news:

But less than two hours after the Gaza protest ended, three more Kassams reached their targets, all landing in Sderot itself. Ten-year-old Yossi Haimov, who was playing with his eight-year-old sister, Maria, in the courtyard of the apartment building where they live, was struck by shrapnel, and almost a dozen other people were treated for shock.

Eyewitnesses gathered outside the ramshackle apartment block said shortly after the strike that the boy had heard the “Color Red” siren and tried to take cover near a large cement structure. When the rocket landed nearby, it sent chunks of concrete and glass from nearby buildings flying, some of which hit the boy in his shoulder.

Maria said after the attack that the two had returned home together from school, dropped their backpacks off at home, and then left the house again to meet friends in the sandy courtyard, which is dominated by a bomb shelter and a large concrete block. Although the two tried to take cover, she soon realized that her brother had been hit.

“I saw his arm was covered in blood, but he didn’t cry,” the eight-year-old recalled, describing how she and her brother screamed for the owners of a nearby corner store to call an ambulance. Both of the children’s parents were at work when the rocket struck.

Well, he did afterwards. They were brought into a local store, and someone took cellphone images of the scene. That’s at the Ha’aretz link above. Heartache warning: Hearing an eight-year-old child scream for her brother and her mother may be hazardous to your mental health.

Magen David Adom teams managed to stop the boy’s severe bleeding, but doctors at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital, where Yossi was hospitalized, said that his shoulder was shattered.

They did manage to save his arm. Not that it matters to anyone but the Israeli or Jewish media.

Really. Just when you think the MSM can’t sink much lower, they manage to make you think again.