[strategofr]

"Perhaps more conspicuously absent from the media's coverage is the revelation, covered extensively in Israeli sources such as YNet and Haaretz as well as wire services AFP, Xinhua and Zee News, that Hamas was responsible for funding and training the terrorists of the Popular Resistance Committees, whose attempt to detonate a booby-trapped truck at the crossing was foiled by PA police in a shootout. While coverage was missing from the newspapers, as we went to press, even the BBC's website reported on the story..."

"...as the Jerusalem Post points out:

[Israeli] Government officials noted the irony that while Hamas was warning of a humanitarian disaster inside the Gaza Strip, and while the Palestinian Authority was lobbying the world to pressure Israel to keep the Karni crossing open, Hamas was involved in an attack aimed at blowing up the crossing. Due to numerous terror specific warnings, Karni has been repeatedly opened and closed by Israel since the disengagement from Gaza last year. The closures are often depicted by the PA as collective punishment on the Palestinian people, which relies on the goods transferred through the crossing."

[Mr. Mojo]

much of the media has consistently failed to report on the continuing Qassam missile attacks from Gaza

More importantly, the attacks have come from the areas of Gaza that the Israelis (up until recently) occupied. .....as expected. The leftist media will go to any length to protect its favorite terrorist org (Hamas).

[SJackson]

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