Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Moral equivalence twofer

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Israeli woman killed by Gaza rocket fire

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has killed an Israeli woman, hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert set conditions for a truce with Palestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled territory. The projectile slammed into a house in a small farming community near the Gaza border, killing an elderly woman, an Israeli army spokeswoman said, adding that the victim was around 70 years old. On Friday an Israeli man was killed in the same area by a mortar round...
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Israelis resume Gaza fuel delivery
Gaza City - Israel yesterday authorized the resumption of fuel deliveries to the besieged [?] Gaza Strip, where shortages caused the only power plant to shut down at the weekend, an Israeli security official said. The Nahal Oz border terminal, which supplies most of the territory's fuel, reopened yesterday morning, the official said. Gaza's only electricity plant had shut on Saturday due to lack of fuel, leaving thousands of Palestinians reliant on candles and gas lanterns...
[who's 'besieged'? who's firing the rockets and who's being murdered by them?]
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