Since the impending ground invasion is about to send media outlets into hitherto unseen fits of anti-Israel histrionics, it's probably best to get this out of the way now. Submitted for your approval, the ten most obnoxious, offensive, or just plain stupid examples of anti-Israel media bias from last week.

10) The entirely predictable complaint - set up weeks in advance by some of the liberal foreign policy community's leading failures - that Israeli self-defense will ruin Obama's grandiose foreign policy goals.

9) The interminable stream of "Israel rejects 48 hour truce" articles. You'd almost think that (a) Hamas wasn't also categorically rejecting any renewed truce or (b) Hamas hasn't always rejected any interest in a renewed truce. But since Hamas is categorically rejecting any renewed truce just like they've always done: kind of biased.

8) The first few hours of Fox News coverage. Just weird.

7) Washington Post: Hamas barrages are "amateur rockets" that merely "nag" Israel

6) The LAT's "surprise" that Israel would launch an offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israeli politicians were saying for weeks that post-ceasefire rockets and missiles would draw an Israeli response. Maybe all those complaints from pro-Israel bloggers - about how the media doesn't seem to know that Israel exists except when Palestinians are under fire - are actually literally true?

5) The moronic "each side blames the other for violating [the] cease-fire" line that CNN used in their write-up and repeated dozens of times on air. Technically true but somewhat misleading since one side is, well, lying. Bonus points for describing in a general sense how the 6-month ceasefire was constantly "weakened" without mentioning which side was weakening it.

4) CNN's credulous coverage of Cynthia McKinney's Walter Mitty fantasies. An Israeli warship rammed a pleasure yacht and opened fire on its hull but the yacht escaped almost totally unscathed. I'm sure that's exactly what it happened. Doesn't it kind of seem like Karl Penhaul is an overeager journalism undergrad, imagining himself in the trenches of a brutal struggle between intrepid investigative journalists and The System?

3) The Times Online story about how Hamas has no interest in imposing sharia on the Gaza Strip. No of course it's not true.

2) The Juicebox Mafia's combination of pretension, indignation, and aggressive stupidity.

After the jump, last week's #1 example of brazen anti-Israel propaganda thinly veiled as journalism...