Taghreed El-Khodor: her propaganda services intensify

Taghreed is back today, and on her own. Finally, she notices the civilian casualties in the strip, but that does not derail her main agenda: to basically appease her Zionist editors. She starts her article by giving a graphic description at the hospital and she admits that civilians casualties are overwhelming, but then she stops and remembers that her agenda is not about the victims of about their welfare. She hears one expression of criticisms of Hamas, and she drops what she is doing to report it on the front page although she adds (in passing): that the anti-Hamas curse is "rarely heard these days." She leaves the pro-Hamas sentiment (less rare by her own admission) to the end of the article. She then does what she does best: to provide justifications for the Israeli killing of civilians: "The Israeli Army has repeatedly emphasized that its operation is not aimed at Gaza’s residents." But that is not enough, she has to add that the high population density is responsible for the causlties amon the Palestinains and not Israeli fire, shells, and bombs: "Parts of Gaza, a narrow coastal strip with a population of 1.5 million, are among the most densely crowded areas in the world. Artillery and tank fire can easily cause collateral damage. Israel all but stopped firing tank and artillery shells into Gaza in November 2006 after 18 Palestinian civilians, most from one family, were killed by Israeli shells that missed their target and hit a row of houses in Beit Hanoun." Look at that language: "missed their targets"? How do you know that? How do you know it was not your typical indiscriminate bombing that even the lousy Thomas Friedman observed (and reported about) in Beirut back in 1982? What do you say about Taghreed El-Khodary worse than that she is more protective of Israeli propaganda interets than Thomas Friedman. And wasn't Taghreed cute using the term "collateral damage"? Very cute, indeed.