Can you believe it? The Guardian has, for the first time in recent memory, admitted that the Israelis struck first:
"Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups have accepted an Egyptian-mediated agreement to halt two days of intense fighting with Israel sparked by a botched Israeli special forces raid miles inside Gaza." (Israel & Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire after intense violence, Oliver Holmes, 14/11/18)
Extraordinary!
Mind you that descriptor "special forces" (a euphemism for death squad) is still vintage Guardian.
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ABC introduced its story by saying 3 (unspecified nationality) 'died' after rockets sent from Gaza.
Compare this with the truth: 7 Palestinian and one Israeli killed in an Israeli raid and, after the Palestinians responded with rockets, another 3 Palestinians killed by Israeli artillery and bombs.
As you're well aware MERC, these flare-ups of violence are almost always instigated by the Israelis. On a longer timescale what more provocation does one need than having one's country stolen.
Perhaps the Guardian is worried about its declining credibiility - I'd like to find figures for the last two years also:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/288110/readership-trend-of-the-guardian-newspaper-uk/
I note that it is improving its position in the Australian market but there is little competition here.
G, I was being sarcastic here at the Guardian's expense. The Guardian could not, in this instance, have said anything else. But, quoted in the same piece, at least one fool, Nickolay Mladenov, the UN envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace, just couldn't stop himself from reverting to the usual Israeli formula: "Rockets must stop, restraint must be shown by all."
Yes I understood your sarcasm. I sometimes worry that those who don't read as widely or deeply as you (and that certainly includes me) don't understand that it is not the fact that Israel triggered the event that is surprising but that (some of - see Anonymous's comment above) the Western media reported it correctly for a change.
A propos Anonymous's comment, I never read or listen to the ABC on foreign news. It is almost always wrong.
FYI, here's today's Australian with the Israel retaliated formula in its editorial:"... the sudden resumption of violence during which... Hamas rained down an unprecedented 460 rockets on Israel and Israel retaliated by launching strikes against 160 targets in Gaza."
Possibly the Guardian has one eye on the upcoming elections?
"The Australian" and "egregious" seem a perfect fit.
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