So what is the lead front page banner headline today in Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew?
It is that a Palestinian woman and her baby daughter were injured when a “settler” threw a rock at their car. The headline reads in Hebrew, “We drove past Yizhar (Jewish settlement) and suddenly a rock hit us.” The story is accompanied by a photo of a baby in Tel Aviv Jewish hospital bed with a bandage on her noggin. The story without the photo is on Haaretz English web site here.
So why is this a front page story? In Israel not a day goes by without numerous rock throwing incidents in which Arabs throw rocks at Jewish cars. Not all are in the “occupied territories” and parts of the Galilee are notorious scenes for such attacks. Most of these never get mentioned at all in Haaretz and none are ever on the front page. Jews have died as a result of some of these attacks. When a dog bites a man it is not news, but….
Well, it is not even clear that the person who threw the stone is a Jew.
The location is near Nablus, and Arabs commonly stone cars there. The source for the claim that it was a Jew throwing the stone? A passing Palestinian – now THERE is a reliable news source! Of course it is not impossible that a Jew got tired of his own car getting his own vehicle stoned and lost his temper. But how dare a Jew retaliate!
