More Journalists Pretend That Israel is Still Occupying Gaza
It has been pointed out by more nuanced and reasonable bloggers than ourselves that the anti-Israel Left and the anti-Israel press use the Jewish State's presence in lands outside the Green Line as pathetic pretexts for their animus toward Israel. That excuse, of course, has become a lot harder to justify since the disengagement from Gaza. After all, if the occupation is the problem and Israel is no longer occupying Gaza, then how to explain all of the violence still coming from Gaza?
Last month, we noticed the ingenious solution that some journalists had stumbled upon: just pretend that Israel never really left the Gaza Strip! On July 4th, we caught Switzerland declaring that Israel was still occupying Gaza. Then on July 13th, we noticed the BBC doing the exact same thing. And now it's the Australian Herald Sun:
An Israeli taken in a raid by Palestinian militants in Gaza in June also remains captive. An Israeli air strike hit a house in Gaza where a member of Islamic Jihad lived, witnesses said, wounding eight people.
No, no, no, no, no. It doesn't matter how much you want to believe it, it is simply not the case that Shalit was "taken" in Gaza. He was kidnapped from Israel - where he was definitely not in occupation of Gaza. But hey - wouldn't it be great for the anti-Israel Left if he was?
Last month, we noticed the ingenious solution that some journalists had stumbled upon: just pretend that Israel never really left the Gaza Strip! On July 4th, we caught Switzerland declaring that Israel was still occupying Gaza. Then on July 13th, we noticed the BBC doing the exact same thing. And now it's the Australian Herald Sun:
An Israeli taken in a raid by Palestinian militants in Gaza in June also remains captive. An Israeli air strike hit a house in Gaza where a member of Islamic Jihad lived, witnesses said, wounding eight people.
No, no, no, no, no. It doesn't matter how much you want to believe it, it is simply not the case that Shalit was "taken" in Gaza. He was kidnapped from Israel - where he was definitely not in occupation of Gaza. But hey - wouldn't it be great for the anti-Israel Left if he was?
