Words Are Funny Things

Just some minor things to point out to the BBC:


The latest violence in Gaza erupted as Israeli forces tore down four buildings opposite a Jewish settlement, witnesses said.

An Israeli military spokesman was quoted by AFP news agency as saying the incursion was intended to halting the firing of rockets and mortar bombs from the town into nearby Jewish settlements.

A day earlier, Palestinian gunmen had shot dead a pregnant Israeli woman and her four young daughters on a nearby road.

(1) I know that it’s all just one big “cycle of violence,” but even an attempt at some fidelity to some form of truth would have to concede that “the latest violence” actually “erupted” when an entire family was murdered by Palestinian terrorists, rather than when some houses were knocked down. Because you know, the murder of that family by those animals came first, so that’s technically when the violence “erupted.”

(2) I guess technically you could describe what happened to that Jewish family as being “shot dead,” but certainly an organization that has worked itself up into such a froth over some faked photos that the Webster