A reader writes to tell me that both BBC and Channel Four news yesterday reported the boy human bomb who was caught near Nablus (he turned out to be 14, not 12) as if this might be a stunt being pulled by Israel. I have picked up similar murmurings elsewhere in the media. This reaction, which to put it mildly is perverse, is caused by two things. The first is the extreme ignorance of the British media, who remain almost completely unaware of the fact that Palestinian children are being raised in a cult of death, taught from the cradle to hate Israelis and Jews and incited to become 'martyrs' by hysterical brainwashing. The second factor is the prism of extreme malice through which many journalists view every single thing that Israel does or says. So instead of drawing appropriate conclusions about the demented depravity of a society which turns its own backward children into human bombs to murder Israelis, British journalists try to turn the intended victims of such an attack into cynical and duplicitous manipulators of public opinion. Such are the depths to which the British media has now sunk.