... but, interestingly, someone at the Guardian inadvertently neglected to pull a sentence contradicting it.
Guardian Australia headline:
Six killed in Gaza as Israel responds to multiple rocket attacks
First sentence of report:
"An infant and her pregnant mother were among six people killed in Gaza after Israel responded with airstrikes and tank fire to about 250 rockets being fired over the border by Palestinian militants..." (Emma Graham-Harrison, 5/5/19)
Paragraph 5 of same report:
"The spike in violence began on Friday when two Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli security forces during protests along the Israeli-Gaza perimeter fence."
So the headline and first sentence of the report, both of which toe the insidious Israeli propaganda line of 'Palestinians always attack/Israelis merely respond', is discredited in paragraph 5 of the same report.
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ABC pulled its "in retaliation" headline in the last hour or so - I must learn to take screenshots. But the report still doesn't mention the killings of unarmed Palestinian protesters on Friday by IDF snipers - "the most moral army in the world" remember. And lots of "Israel says" quotes in there. Ugh!
It just goes to show that the MSM operate on auto-pilot despite the obvious and mutually exclusive contradictions. They can't help themselves.
The three 'R's' of reportage on this subject are: 'respond' 'reply' and 'retaliate.'
Remember when apartheid South Africa introduced press censorship? Australian news broadcasts routinely began with a disclaimer as to the authenticity of he following 'news.'
The Bandit State has always had permanent office of military censorship which ruthlessly censors unfavourable coverage. Why the double standard?
However the office of military censor is hardly necessary when 'our' media practises blatant self censorship and overt bias.
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