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July 23, 2007
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In the Telegraph, its fair and balanced Middle East reporter Tim Butcher reports James Wolfensohn, the former head of the World Bank, blaming Israel and America for failing to back his attempts to develop the Palestinian economy after Israel withdrew from Gaza.

He even put £300,000 of his own money into a fund to secure Israeli commercial greenhouses in Gaza so they could be transferred to Palestinian farmers. But Israel closed Gaza’s border and halted all exports.

But a mere matter of hours after Israel had pulled out of Gaza, the Palestinians destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of greenhouses that the Israelis had left for them to make money from.

Butcher also writes:

Yesterday, Israel killed four Palestinian gunmen in Gaza, two in a ground assault and two in an air strike against militants launching rockets at its territory. The violence was the worst in Gaza for 10 days.

But the Jerusalem Post tells us:

Three sisters were found stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising suspicion they were killed by relatives because of suspected immoral behavior, a human rights organization said. The three sisters, 16-year-old Nahed Hija and her sisters, 19-year-old Suha and 22-year-old Lina, were found dead from multiple stab wounds, buried in a shallow grave in the central Gaza Strip early Sunday morning, said Hamdi Shakkour of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

But of course that’s not violence because the Israelis weren’t involved.