Heard the one about how Hamas keeps its Gaza headquarters in the basement of Shifa Hospital? Not unless you read WaPo Jerusalem reporter William Booth’s latest to the last sentence of the eighth paragraph.
Talk about burying the lede. We know you didn’t learn that here, Billy, when you worked for the Austin daily. Or maybe we just hardly knew ye? Gotta keep those terrorists happy, eh?
Well, in fairness to Billy, he and the WaPo (which is notorious for rewriting its reporters) must cooperate in pushing Hamas propaganda the way the terrorists like it—including the latest wrenching and probably staged pix from Pallywood—or they’ll kidnap him for ransom like they did BBC reporter Alan Johnson back in 2007.
Just don’t let the WaPo convince you that Billy’s an objective reporter on the fighting in Gaza or the doings of Hamas. No one is.
“In recent days alone, we’ve heard the account of Gabriele Barbati, an Italian journalist who, once leaving Gaza, tweeted: “Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children yday in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris.” We’ve also heard from Radjaa Abou Dagga, a former correspondent for France’s Liberation whose attempts at practicing honest journalism got him summoned by Hamas thugs, accused of collaborating with Israel, and told to stop working as a reporter and leave the strip at once.”
Indeed, as one of my favorite bloggers, Elder of Ziyon, puts it: “Every single report on TV from Gaza should have this disclaimer: ‘Our reporters have been threatened, implicitly and perhaps explicitly, by Hamas to only report one side of the story. Viewers must not trust anything they are saying.’”
Works for newspaper reporters and editors, too. And their Internet clones.
Via The Algemeiner.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I hope Israel doesn’t quit until it is done, this time. Carry on to the finish. Seems to me, there’s really no need for a “Gaza” anyhow. All they have done with it is make it a base for attacks on Israel.
Jerusalem seems to be, at least momentarily, confused at the complexity of the situation, with Hamas tucked in amongst willing or unwilling civilians in every corner of Gaza, under every hospital, school, etc., making the IDF damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t. Doesn’t help that Wormtongue seems more interested in helping Hamas than helping Israel.
Oh well, we all know now how it ends. But the reporters coming out are talking indeed.