The Washington Post’s August 23 edition  features an article about recent fatalities in Gaza (“18 alleged informers executed in Gaza” by William Booth and Ruth Eglash,” page A9). The article reports that Hamas mortar fire killed a 4-year-old Israeli boy, and then elaborates that “Daniel Tregerman was the first Israeli child killed in six weeks of fighting between Hamas and Israel.  At last count, 469 children have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment during the six-week war, according to UNICEF.” Your reporters thus seek to draw a sharp contrast between the death of a lone Israeli child and 469 kids supposedly killed on the Palestinian side. What the article, however, fails to recognize is that while the Israeli fatality is clearly a child (4 years of age), the 469 children fatalities on the Palestinian side are a grossly exaggerated total. What it comes...(Read Full Post)