Last week there was an Islamic Jihad suicide bombing outside a Netanya mall that killed five and wounded 90 Israelis, and hundreds of Hamas rocket attacks over the Gaza border into Israel that killed a woman who was sitting on her porch. This followed five months of the so-called ‘truce’ declared by Hamas and Islamic jihad which in fact has seen dozens of mostly thwarted terror attacks on Israelis. Finally, Israel responded by resuming attacks on the Hamas leadership. Yet parts of the media described this as Israel breaking the truce. As HonestReporting.com reports, the Washington Post said:

‘The Israeli military killed seven members of Hamas on Friday in rocket strikes that renewed Israel's policy of assassinating militant Palestinian leaders and effectively marked the end of a five-month truce’

while Associated Press claimed:

‘The Israeli military launched an airstrike Friday on a van carrying Hamas militants and a cache of homemade rockets in a Gaza City street, killing four people in what may be the most serious blow to a 5-month-old truce.’

Question: why do these media outlets regard the sustained terrorism by Hamas and Islamic Jihad as not breaking the truce but when Israel finally tried to defend its citizens this is breaking the truce? Answer: because Jewish casualties of Arab terror are invisible since the media ‘know’ that the Jews don’t do self-defence, only aggression — even when they are under rocket attack.