Red on Red, terrorists dead

This is the kind of news we heard regularly about a year ago: Bomb blasts rocked a café and a Hamas politician’s home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago. Hamas blamed unidentified gunmen for the bombings, suggesting the involvement of a Palestinian faction. They have no trouble taking out their own innocent either, it seems. Hamas security forces said the first bomb went off outside a popular cafe in the centre of Gaza City, killing a passerby whose identity was not immediately known. A few minutes later, a second bomb exploded outside the house of Hamas politician and leader Marwan Abu Rass. Nobody was injured in that blast. And Reuters had no problem lying about Hamas’ intentions. But the truce has... [read full story]