I’ve been busy

and am late in posting some interesting emails. Jeremy Sharon writes:

the BBC reported the IDF’s killing of a ticking bomb terrorist in Nablus on Thursday, April 14 here ,but have thus far failed to report the shooting of a soldier and civilian in Gaza by a sniper of the Popular Resistance Committees today (Monday, April 18) reported here at the Jerusalem Post. The incident last Thursday seems to have been reported pretty promptly but obviously things seem to be taking a little longer today at the Beeb’s internet department because I still can’t find any mention at all of today’s shooting incident on their website. I guess it’ll turn up tomorrow…or Wednesday…end of the week at the outside.

It is Wednesday and I didn’t see any reference to them. (Let me know in comments if I’m wrong.) I would partially defend the BBC in that the shootings of the Israelis were non-fatal, hence less newsworthy. Yet the BBC’s under-reporting about the stream of attacks on Israelis makes deaths like those of the man in Nablus look as if they are aggression out of the blue. It has now been admitted by the Palestinian Authority that the three Palestinians killed on April 9 were smuggling weapons, not playing football as claimed. Why don’t you learn that on the BBC report? All it says is

Last week Israeli troops killed three Palestinian youths near the border between Gaza and Egypt, sparking a barrage of mortar fire aimed at Jewish settlements.