mainstream media lies about hamas

Over the past few years the media has consistently downplayed or ignored arab violence, while apportioning blame on Israeli retaliatory or preventative actions as the cause of "escalating violence" or "breaking of ceasefires".

Unless you read the Israeli press on a daily basis, it is almost impossible to get a full and accurate picture of events in Israel from the international media. One could get a false impression of relative quiet in the absence of media reports of mass casualty events.

A 22 April Associated Press report says that: "Hamas militants called Sunday for a fresh wave of attacks against Israel after troops killed nine Palestinians in weekend fighting, straining a five-month-old cease-fire."

Nidal al-Mughrabi Reuters gaza: Hamas’s armed wing broke a five-month ceasefire on Tuesday by firing rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip after Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians over the weekend. Hamas stopped short of declaring a formal end to the ceasefire, which began in November, and said the group was responding to Israeli violations of the shaky agreement.

BBC: The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement has said it is ending its five-month truce with Israel.Earlier in the day the group launched a sustained barrage of rockets and mortars into Israel, the first such attack since November. The group, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said the attacks were in revenge for recent killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

AFP 24.04.07 : La branche armée du Hamas annonce la fin de la trêve conclue avec Israël le 26 novembre dernier. La branche armée du Hamas a ouvert le feu en représailles à la mort de neuf Palestiniens, tués en fin de semaine dernière par des soldats israéliens. M. Haniyeh soutient que le gouvernement,qui est aussi composé de membres du Fatah, a fait d'importants efforts pour préserver la trêve, mais que cette politique s'est traduite par une expansion et une escalade de l'agression commise par Israël à l'endroit des Palestiniens.

This April alone, the following incidents illustrate that the media's impression that Israel shattered the calm is anything but accurate:
-Islamic Jihad terrorist captured near Tel Aviv after his bomb belt fails to detonate
-Palestinian bride arrested on suspicion of planning to carry out suicide bombing
-3 Israelis injured in shooting attack near Modi'in
-Hamas calls for further kidnappings of Israeli soldiers
-Israeli cars shot at in West Bank
-Israeli civilian wounded in West Bank drive-by shooting
-Arrests prevent huge Hamas-planned car bomb in Tel Aviv
-Egypt arrests would-be Hamas suicide bomber near Israeli border
-Palestinian rockets hit Sderot home; several Israelis treated for shock

We urge our readers to look beyond the pages of their local newspapers and keep abreast of the actions that Palestinian terror organizations continue to attempt against Israeli civilians.

To ask the AP what it defines as a "ceasefire", please send your constructive comments to feedback@ap.org.

(www.honestreporting.com communique 23.04.07)
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even lemonde.fr 24.04.07 "La branche armée du Hamas rompt la trêve avec Israël" says that the ceasefire wasnt respected by the arabs:
En vertu de l'accord de cessez-le-feu fin novembre 2006, l'armée israélienne avait mis fin à ses opérations militaires dans la bande de Gaza et s'était engagée à ne pas y lancer d'attaques. Pour leur part, les groupes palestiniens, dont le Fatah et le Hamas, devaient s'abstenir de tirer des roquettes. En dépit de cet accord, plus d'une centaine de roquettes avait été tirées depuis, en majorité par le Djihad islamique qui ne l'avait pas accepté. En représailles, l'armée israélienne avait repris, début avril, ses attaques sur la bande de Gaza.