Both the Washington Post and the New York Times have articles about yesterday’s attack that killed three Americans in Gaza, blaming it on Israel’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels in Rafah and the “one-sided” US support of Israel. (Hat tip: davesax.) They quote two different Palestinian boys, both with the lovely name of “Jihad,” who were among the savages who stoned American rescue workers at the scene of the bombing.

The WaPo:

However, as Israel has demolished homes, assassinated suspected terrorists and established checkpoints and closures in the Palestinian territories in response to Palestinian suicide bombings, Palestinians — particularly in the Gaza Strip, where sentiments are more strident and radical — have grown increasingly angry with the U.S. government for offering no criticism of Israel.

American policy “is one-sided in favor of Israel and against us,” said Jihad Amari, 17, a high school student who was among the crowd of young Palestinians who threw rocks and stones at the U.S. investigators at the scene of the blast.

NYT:

The area is a metaphor for the desperation of the Gaza Strip, where nearly a million Palestinians are bottled up in poverty by Israeli checkpoints and barriers thrown around Jewish settlements. Anger has crested to new heights in the last week in the wake of an Israeli crackdown in Rafah, a refugee camp on the Egyptian border south of Gaza City where hundreds of families have been left homeless after their houses were destroyed by Israeli troops searching for gun-smuggling tunnels.

At the site of the bombing, feelings ran high. Before the crowd began stoning foreigners, Jihad Salim, a young man in a white T-shirt, said many Palestinians would feel little sympathy for the United States. “America has to pay for its foreign policy, which is against Muslims,” he said.

Refresh my memory. These were the same people who danced in the streets, ululated, and passed out sweets to celebrate the 9/11 atrocities, right? The same people who’ve been murdering Americans in Israel for years, in university cafeterias, on buses, in cars? The same people who name their children Jihad?

But according to our mainstream media, it’s US policies that make them want to kill us. It’s our own fault for supporting Israel. Never mind that this diplomatic convoy was on the way to interview young Palestinians—just like 17-year old Jihad—for scholarships to study in the US, on the US taxpayer’s dime. We deserved it because we won’t do anything to stop Israel from destroying the smuggling tunnels that bring in the explosives they use to blow us up.

This kind of twisted reporting, giving equal weight and value to the opinions of murderers, is why an increasing number of people are turning their backs on mainstream media.