Friday, May 14, 2010

HaHa-Haaretz - Reliable As Ever

Reported this morning:-

Settlers opened fire and killed a Palestinian teenager who was throwing rocks at Israeli cars near the West Bank city of Ramallah late Thursday, according to Palestinian sources.

The body of Iser A-aban, 16, was found with gunshot wounds to the back outside the village of Mazra'a al Sharqiya, located northwest of Ramallah and between the settlements of Shiloh and Ofra.

There was no confirmation from Israel regarding the report.

Violent rightists have adopted a "price tag" policy against Palestinians since Israel declared a temporary freeze in West Bank construction last December. Over the course of the last five months, groups of extremists have vandalized mosques destroy Palestinian property as a response to the IDF's having dismantled illegal outposts.

It was not yet clear whether this incident was related to the "price tag" operation.


All those bold-faced sections represent doubt, ambiguity, unreliability, unfactuality and assumptions.

Or, in other words, pro-Pal. propaganda.

The story may be true but reporting isn't an ideological campaign.


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UPDATE

Police who came to the scene found rocks littering the side of the road, but no trace of the three men.


So?

Reflect and consider:

Four Israeli Bedouin arrested for conspiracy to commit terror acts
Residents of Rahat detained by police for routinely throwing firebombs at civilian cars on a central Negev highway.

1 comment:

yoni said...

"reporting isn't an ideological campaign."

really? where did you get that silly idea?

i too was amazed at the sheer amount of equivocating in this article. it was like "hurry up and post it online! we'll get the facts later! in the meantime just make some stuff up! use that "price tag" thing. yeah, that's the ticket".