On New Year's Eve, a weekly protest at a West Bank Palestinian village against Israel's security barrier turned violent.  The barrier was breached in three places and demonstrators hurled stones at Israeli security forces.  Israeli troops responded by firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. The next day, Palestinian officials  announced that a Palestinian woman was sickened by the tear gas during the demonstration. taken to hospital and died on New Year's Day.  Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas immediately blamed Israel for a "crime" against the Palestinian people."  And the dead woman was turned into a "martyr" for the Palestinian cause. The New York Times published a dispatch by Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner on Jan. 2, which flatly declared that Israel's use of tear gas had killed the woman.  Kershner relied entirely on Palestinian accounts and failed to inform readers...(Read Full Post)