Now this is what I call good news :)
Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Angry Palestinians Lash Out at Militants
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian residents of a northern Gaza town demonstrated Tuesday after Israelis destroyed buildings and farms there in a five-day invasion, but in a rare twist, their wrath was directed at Palestinian militants for firing rockets from their property, not at the Israelis.Posted by shanti at May 20, 2003 4:13 PMIsraeli forces pulled back to the edge of the town, Beit Hanoun, a letup that came despite a bloody wave of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed 12 bystanders, hinting Israel might not undertake a large-scale punitive military operation that would further weaken the new Palestinian premier, Mahmoud Abbas.
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Tracked on May 20, 2003 7:37 PM
That’s what gets me about these articles — they always say “bystanders.” In normal use, a “bystander” is someone who wasn’t the intended target, but who just happened to be there, and either got hurt or just saw what went down. These “bystanders” are the intended targets, and not “bystanders” at all.
Posted by: Adrianne at May 21, 2003 9:11 AM
Good catch, Adrianne - I missed it completely. WTF? Who does the Guardian think the target was, if the people who got killed were just bystanders!
This kind of bias is just maddening.
Posted by: Shanti at May 21, 2003 9:52 AM
Perhaps they should be referred to as “collateral damage”.
Posted by: Niraj at May 21, 2003 11:35 AM
That would definitely fit with Guardian’s tone, no doubt.
Posted by: Shanti at May 21, 2003 11:49 AM