Saturday, April 5, 2008
A pure display of perfect bias. Repeat with perfect credulity the claims of Palestinian medical sources that work for Hamas, don't check them out, then couple it with "background" that compounds the message: AFP: Israeli fire kills Gaza farmer
GAZA CITY (AFP) -- A Palestinian farmer was killed by an Israeli artillery round on Saturday as he worked in his fields near the border between the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Israel, Palestinian medics said...
...An Israeli army spokeswoman said Palestinians had opened fire and launched an anti-tank missile at an Israeli border patrol along the northern perimeter fencem, but that the patrol did not return fire...
Note that they don't tell you that the IDF denies firing anything at all. This story at YNet tells the more plausible version: Palestinian rocket accidentally kills local farmer in Gaza
Palestinian sources say man killed, another wounded from Israeli artillery fire in northern Gaza - but local residents say cause of explosion was Palestinian rocket which failed to reach its destination across the border. IDF denies any shells fired
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday afternoon that a Palestinian farmer was killed and another wounded in an IDF artillery strike in northern Gaza. However local residents say the farmer was killed after a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists toward Israel fell short and hit him.
The army said that while troops patrolling the border earlier in the afternoon did indeed come under Palestinian fire, they did not respond to the anti-tank missile launched at them...
Not to worry, though, Palestinian peasants, Salam Fayyad says they can't stop the rockets, but they can keep transferring money.
