…So this morning an IDF patrol along the Jurassic Park-type barrier surrounding the Gaza rectangle came under mortar fire. Three shells landed. No casualties, no damage. By noon, the Air Force executed two bombing runs, claiming afterwards to have “intercepted terrorists during their final preparations to launch rockets toward Israel.” Just about every day now there is fire out of Gaza and Israeli counter-strikes which kill a teenager here, a teenager there.
And again the MSM today said it was the “Palestinians” who fired the mortars, which I consider the worst kind of journalism. All these rocket-launcher boys are themselves launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other cells all bearing Islamist names, all of them functionally disdainful of nationalist identity. They see themselves as Muslims fighting the infidel Jews whom the Qur’an calls the Muslims’ worst enemies. As Muslims they launched their deadly weapons, but the MSM here keeps calling them “Palestinians.” Same-old same old… |