Reuters was one of my staple news sources until it became apparent that its stories are pro-Israel. The propagandist "Gaza militants launch barrages across border, Israel hits back with air strikes" was simply sickening to read in its attempts to identify the Palestinian people of Gaza and their dead family members as 'Islamic Jihadist militants', justifying Israel's slaughter by tank and jet attacks.
Naming the 116 Palestinians murdered by Israel during the Palestinian protests in recent weeks (on their own land) in the context of 'weeks of border violence', the article hints at a parity between Israel and Palestinians held captive in what amounts to a concentration camp that is Gaza. Yet the photos on Reuters show minor damage to a 'kindergarten' in Israel as an alleged target of Palestinian militants, with no photos showing the polluted slum conditions that the Palestinians must endure daily under Israeli brutality, and the thousands of buildings demolished by Israeli bombs and bulldozers.
There is, of course, no parity of force between Palestine and Israel as implied by this biased Reuters article, that would have readers believe the Israeli propaganda that 'Israel is simply defending itself against Jihadists'. The truth is that Palestinians have tried to defend their land against Israeli attacks by using improvised weapons: stones, burning tyres and homemade rockets. Israel has state-of-the-art weapons sold to them by the UK and US.
Palestinians, unlike their opposition Israeli death squads, don't possess fighter jets, bombers, tanks, snipers or nuclear weapons. Palestinians haven't stolen any land, they don't invade Israeli homes, confiscate them, demolish them and build new settlements on their foundations. Palestinians haven't engaged in decades of ethnic cleansing, or forced more than a million people from their own land. The Israelis have and still do all of these things, and have been doing so for 70 years with absolute impunity. (watch John Pilger's film "Palestine is Still The Issue". he's a real journalist).
The Reuters story mentioned above is an example of a brand of lies of spin and omission peddled to the west that allows us to remain complacent to the 70 year genocide and enduring holocaust committed by Israel upon the Palestinian people.
I thought you were better than that Reuters.
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