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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/the-medias-true-failure-in-gaza/
The Media's True Failure in Gaza
(Daily Caller) David Brog - Earlier this week, the UN confirmed that the tragic death of 11-month-old Omar al-Mishrawi, previously blamed on Israel, was actually the result of a Hamas missile that fell short of its target. Here's how the Washington Post's Max Fisher explained away his rush to implicate Israel in this death: "It's difficult to see how knowing whose rocket or missile killed Mishrawi would resolve the larger questions for which that debate is a proxy....These are notoriously thorny debates. As with so many protracted geopolitical conflicts, neither side comes out looking as angelic or demonic as its partisans might wish." Fisher is wrong. The conflict between Hamas and Israel is not a "thorny debate." Hamas is a terrorist organization, and is recognized as such by both the U.S. and EU. Just as responsible journalists reject a moral equivalence between the U.S. and the al-Qaeda terrorists who seek to kill Americans, they should likewise shun such equivalence between Israel and the Hamas terrorists determined to kill Israelis. The writer is executive director of Christians United for Israel.