A little over a week ago we pointed out the strange linguistic phenomenon, where journalists keep talking as if Israel had never withdrawn from the Gaza Strip at all. Specifically, journalists kept talking as if Shalit was captured in the Gaza Strip, instead of what really happened: Hamas crossed the international border into Israel and attacked an army base on Israeli land. We don't think this is necessarily a concious thing. Rather, the reflex to blame Israel is so strong that, if there isn't a coherent way to do it (and since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, there isn't one)... if there isn't a coherent way to do it, their minds just make on up. Here's the last paragraph from a BBC story that went up a little while ago:

Uhh... no he wasn't. He was captured on his army base - which is not in the Gaza Strip - and brought there.