Apparently the terror attack was questionable, hence quotation marks. CNN wasn't exactly sure; perhaps, after all, it was a sheer accident that the couple and their three children were killed in their sleep on Sabbath night.
CNN:
"According to a military spokeswoman, an intruder entered the Israeli settlement of Itamar near the northern West Bank city of Nablus around 1 am, made his way into a family home and killed two parents and their three children."'Intruder', and not 'terrorist'. No mention that the murderer was in fact a terrorist, other than a suspected 'terror attack' in quotations (and then second-guessed, by attributing the term to IDF sources). An intruder: just an unfortunate incident, a thug, a mere burglar attempt that had had terrible consequences.
I'm not asking for Arutz-7 reporting from American and European news outlets; not for emotional eulogies, and not for loaded phrases like 'cold-blooded murder'. We do not ask for even sympathy in our national tragedy. All we ask for is objectivity. We ask that media outlets stop the relentless doubting and the condemning of the innocent, and cease the deliberate word substitutions: a terrorist is a terrorist. Call it what it is.
And if you're too afraid to face the undeniable truth, shame on you: you are a disgrace to the entire field of journalism.
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