Israel launches a terror attack, deemed by the Los Angeles Times as an airstrike

There was an article in today’s, October 28, 2005 Los Angeles Times about an Israeli missile strike on a civilians in the Gaza Strip.
The first paragraph reads as follows:
“Israeli aircraft fired missiles Thursday night at a car carrying members of the Palestinian militant organization Islamic Jihad in the northern Gaza Strip, Killing all four men inside the vehicle and three civilian bystanders”. But four paragraphs later the article reads that one of the occupants of the car, killed by the missile attack, was identified by Palestinian sources and the Israeli army as Shadi Mohanna, who the Israeli army claimed was, “responsible for several murderous attacks”. The article then goes into great detail about a suicide bombing the previous day. Why would a story about a missile attack go into such detail about a completely different event without giving details about the original event. It seems as though the Los Angeles Times is going to great lengths to justify a missile strike on a civilian target by the Israeli army. Articles like these make the Los Angeles Times a propaganda tool for the Israeli army.

According to the article Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that military actions in response to the Hadera bombing, (previous day’s suicide bombing) would be “broad and unstinting, until they halt terrorism”. What irony, when you can justify the use of terrorism to “halt terrorism”. And is this the ‘free’ Gaza strip that the media was going on about two months ago. It seems that the state of Israel pulled out of the Gaza strip so that they could complain about the lack of security measures taken on by the Palestinian authority, and thus, justify more military action against the civilian population, and yet again pull the strings of tyranny even tighter on the Palestinian population. Not to mention putting the rest of the population in the region in great danger from the backlash of such military operations.