Israeli Missile Strike Kills Hamas Leader, Bodyguards(FOXNEWS refers to IDF as MILITANTS!!!)

Fox News ^ | 8/21/03 | Jonathan Hunt

[adam_az]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip

[DoughtyOne]

Excellent point folks. This propaganda effort is incredibly insidious. I've gotten to the point that I just read over that "stuff" without batting an eyelash.

[1Old Pro]

A senior Hamas official on Thursday declared the cease-fire previously agreed upon between militant groups dead. "We consider ourselves free from this cease-fire," said Hamas official Ibrahim Hanieh.

How many "senior Hamas officials" are there?? Perhaps if that number went to 0 the peace process could begin.

[johnb838]

Did anybody see the way they pulled that guy from the car? There was a mob, they were all dancing, jumping, and yelping around the car. Then you see them THROW this guy who's obviously badly burned onto a stretcher, and pass the stretcher hand-to-hand over the crowd to the ambulance, like it was a mosh pit. The poor guy is bouncing and twisting all over the place. Then they THROW him into the ambulance, slam the gate and start pounding on the side and screaming at the driver to go.

I know they do this every time, maybe this time I was expecting it so I watched a little more closely, but it was REALLY, really strange.

And no, I don't REALLY feel sorry for the burned guy.

[Eva]

If you look up militant in the dictionary, you will see that it can mean someone who is in the military, as well as someone who acts in a warring fashion, especially for a cause. I know that it sounds like a less than official capacity, but you can't argue too much about this usage.

[Nachum]

How about "future transferee's"?

[bluejean]

Done. This just torques me off. If Fox starts pulling the kind of crap that is so offensive and deceitful on other networks, they'll lose an avid viewer.

Israel is the sovereign nation fighting terrorism in its own neighborhoods!! If it was happening here, we'd be doing the same thing - I would hope. But given all the blasted sympathetic crap they try to force feed us about the *%$#! arabs (may they burn in hell), who knows, maybe not. And that's a VERY sad thought.

Go Israel! The only thing these psychopaths will respect is sheer, merciless power. They need to have their BUTTS kicked, BADLY. Same goes for the psychos in Iraq, Iran, and every place else they're breeding, raising and training killers. These people make me SICK.

[kesg]

Also they misspell lots of words and use lots of bad grammar in the news trailers that they run at the bottom of the television screen. Unless and until someone proves otherwise, I'm going to assume that FNC simply made a mistake -- someone didn't carefully check the story before posting it on the website.

[SevenDaysInMay]

The "legal matter" approach should end. This UN/Clintoinazis' approach to shootingf war is extremely dangerous to Israelis and Americans in this world war of terror.

With Israel, we should be destroying every HamAss member, top down - and their accomplices - where they may be found. Follow the money and kill them. Arab terrorists are playing the game of social wellfare side vs. militant side, so don't arrest or shoot us. Whatever the gang's name, arabs are at war with children using rat poison to destroy innocent lives not blown to bits by blasts.

They are all neo-nazis working to exterminate Jews for prime time tv, training arab nits to become bloody lice.

War started a long time ago, and will never cease until until one side cannot attack again.

The war against America started in 1979, and again in 1991. Our police investigations continue.

Tens of thousands or more will perish during the coming cathartic total war, but better that now than tens of thousands of innocents dying and maimed by the arabs' rat poisoned shrapnel exploded into the hearats and minds of innocent humans going about their lives on the streets and conveyances in Israel.

American major media does not report the total injured in these "uprisings" (Pallies' terror war with arab children shields) because the number is so shocking. It might disturb their arab benefactors and contacts.

The vast majority of Pallies chant for the total destruction of all Jews, men, women, and children, according to Mein Koran.They learned to hide their joys over American dead, lest we stop our indirect funding of their treasured murder plots.

Read the islamofascists' holy books, their battle plans to murder - probably first written in Hebrew because arabic was yet a written language, just a tongue of the arab desert's murdering thieves.

Allah uuuaaakkkkkkk barf.

[Shermy]

This totally ignores all the violence perpetrated by Hamas during the "truce"!

Ignores that it was Hamas who "abandoned" the truce.

[Spok]

"I can't believe that FOX referred to the Israeli Military as "militants," the same way wishy washy leftist news outlets refer to terrorists."

I have to believe it's a type-o. They probably meant 'military' and spell check would not pick it up. I use voice recognition dictation and this kind of error happens all the time.

[Spok]

Just so I have this straight-Hamas did not consider the suicide bus bombing a violation of the truce, but the military strike against Hamas leadership is?

[tbpiper]

Just so I have this straight-Hamas did not consider the suicide bus bombing a violation of the truce, but the military strike against Hamas leadership is?

You got it, Ace! (these guys would make good democrats, they reason alike)

[HenryLeeII]

I know it says "Israeli militants" in the article, but my point was that it was probably an editing error (i.e. copying it over from the headline into the article, understandable with the visual/spelling similarity between 'Islamic' and 'Israeli,' and 'militant' and 'military') rather than an editorial comment by Fox New. Don't forget, Fox is about the only mainstream news outlet that correctly identifies the Palestinian murderers as 'homicide bombers' as opposed to the more common 'suicide bombers.'

[mhking]

Only explanation is that they pulled the AP copy straight and didn't edit it.

[Ancesthntr]

Thanks for the link. I sent Fox the following:


I am an avid fan of Fox News, both on TV and online, but I am very disturbed by one of your recent online stories. Regarding the recent Israeli retaliation for the murder of innocent civilians by Hamas terrorists, your article stated

"Israeli militants killed a senior Hamas official and two of his bodyguards Thursday in a strike meant as retaliation for Tuesday's deadly Jerusalem bus bombing. "

Don't you guys have editors? The Israelis aren't "militants," they are a sovereign country with legitimately constituted armed forces, which were used to retaliate against the Hamas leadership. The Israeli MILITARY killed the senior Hamas individual, who, by the way, is a TERRORIST who has taken part in planning the MURDER of innocent women and children. He was not "an official."

Get your act together - you are beginning to resemble ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC.

[HenryLeeII]

Checked back on the Fox website at 5:18 eastern, and "Israeli militants" had been changed to "Israeli military." Obviously an honest mistake on their part...

[Wild Thing]

Fox ??!!??!!??!!

Good GRIEF !

Wild Thing

[hasegawasama]

If the Israeli army was militant, the palestinains wouldnt be a problem.

[nutmeg]

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[yonif]

If you look up militant in the dictionary, you will see that it can mean someone who is in the military, as well as someone who acts in a warring fashion, especially for a cause. I know that it sounds like a less than official capacity, but you can't argue too much about this usage.

By calling Palestinian terrorists "militants" and IDF soldiers "militants" equates the two in their actions, which is wrong. The former targets civilians, the latter targets terrorists.