4 hurt in Sderot rocket barrage

[oberliner]

Hamas rockets pound Sderot: At least four people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, in a rocket barrage on the southern town of Sderot Tuesday afternoon. At least 13 Qassams were fired at Sderot in three barrages, with four rockets landing in town.

The rocket fire started at around 4:15 PM, with one Qassm hitting a chicken plant where Yakov Yakobov was killed in November 2006. Since Tuesday morning, a total of 21 Qassam rockets and 16 mortar shells were fired at western Negev communities.

Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire at Sderot. The organization also claimed responsibility for the firing of several mortar shells at Gaza-region communities.

This marked the first time in several months that Hamas claimed direct responsibility for attacks on Israeli territory.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3494630,00.html

[azurnoir]

1. Which came first the chicken or the egg?

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and helicopters raided Gaza on Tuesday, killing the son of the territory's most powerful leader and 16 other Palestinians in the bloodiest day of fighting since Hamas seized the coastal strip in June.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2686952&mesg_id=2686952

Was the Kassam fire in revenge or just the fact that Hamas claimed responsibility? Are the 2 events related? The usual claim is that Israel acts only in self defense but the Palestinians act out of an irrational hatred of Jews.
Been working quite well for years, the only reason NYT reported the story was Bush's visit, otherwise the M$M rarely reports Israel's attacks on Gaza, but does report Israeli causalities and deaths. That fact is shown in that the person who posted the thread seems to believe that Israel's attack was something "unusual" and due to Bush's visit.

[oberliner]

2. I think the media reports on casualities on both sides

I would also argue that the Qassam attacks on Sderot are also, unfortunately, "business as usual".

Qassam rocket fire at Israel 's civilian population

http://www.btselem.org/english/Israeli_Civilians/Qassam_missiles.asp

[azurnoir]

5. Barely

there have been more reports of late because of Annapolis, as I pointed out the poster of the thread seemed to think that Israel's attack was unusual, that speaks volumes. Do you deny that for decades the M$M in America has been portraying Israel as the beleaguered "good guys" and the Palestinians as "blood crazed" terrorists who kill Jews for the mere pleasure?

[oberliner]

7. I guess it depends on what you consider to be the MSM

I don't think that CNN, for example, portrays the conflict in the way you've described.

I would say that most American media outlets present the Israeli side more sympathetically, while most European outlets present the Palestinian side more sympathetically.

[azurnoir]

8. I was speaking of American outlets

Really thats what I thought M$M applied to, have never really seen the BBC or other European outlets, Reuters being the exception included in that.
But the American John Q until recently did not have easy access to other outlets, and still many don't look anyway.

[Shaktimaan]

3. Incorrect.

The NYTimes reports casualties and attacks on both sides of the conflict.

[azurnoir]

4. Yeah like in the 2006 conflict n/t

[breakaleg]

6. I agree that they rarely report on casualties from the Palestinian side except to give numbers.

Anyone who exclusively reads the NYT will get a very one sided view of this conflict.

[azurnoir]

9. Much of the time not even that

Israels "counter attacks" go largely unreported by American media, unless it is something major.