BBC and CNN must know something we don't, because quotation marks seem to be the latest trend when reporting on attacks on Israel.
Last time, it was a 'terror attack'.
Now, it's a 'Palestinian'.
By enveloping everything in quotations, media sources have been inviting readers to question the entire Itamar murder story: "Those Israelis say it's a Palestinian, but who knows? After all, it's Israelis speaking." The murderer himself is intangible, a ghost of the IDF's imagination, a mere speculation on the part of the authorities.
Note, here again, BBC writes,
The family...were stabbed to death by an intruder who broke into their home, Israeli media reported.
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Not to mention the photograph of choice: the vicious Israeli soldier in full gear. None of the images of victims and murder scenes that news websites usually gobble up and broadcast for days afterwards; apparently those types of images only work for Muhammed al-Dura moments.
And last but not least, a classic BBC-style conclusion:
Nearly half a million Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.BBC must, of course, end a story on a terror attack on Israelis, with a condemnation of...Israel -- because Israel, with its settlements, just has these types of terror attacks coming.
They are held to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
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