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From: LindyBill	5/20/2005 4:27:31 PM
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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style LGF Notice the active phrase in this typically biased headline from the Associated Press: Troops Kill Palestinian After Attack. Also notice: the headline gives no indication of who was attacked by whom. I suppose we should be grateful it wasn’t simply “Troops Kill Palestinian.” JERUSALEM - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian Friday after militants fired missiles at a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip in the third consecutive day of violence hampering efforts to salvage a shaky truce. The army said three militants fired missiles, mortars and assault rifles from an abandoned building near the Gaza settlement of Kfar Darom. One of the militants was killed in an ensuing gunbattle with troops while two others escaped. Israel threatened harsh retaliation for the latest attacks and warned a cease-fire reached in February at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik was in danger of collapse. The Islamic group Hamas said it carried out the attack jointly with the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — a militant group linked to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party — and the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees. Hamas said the attack was in retaliation for Israeli strikes. UPDATE at 5/20/05 12:27:59 pm: LGF reader manker points out that the Associated Press blatantly misrepresented an important detail in their account. At Israel’s Ynet News we discover that the “abandoned building” in AP’s article was actually a United Nations school—and it was only “abandoned” because the terrorists were using it in the middle of the night: Gaza attacks continue. The attack began at 3:00 AM, when three Palestinians firing a mortar at Kfar Darom, followed by hand gun and rifle fire, and anti-tank missiles at IDF soldiers from a U.N. school near the Dir el-Balah neighborhood in Gaza." littlegreenfootballs.com

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