Visitors to the BBC News website’s main homepage, its ‘World’ page or its ‘Middle East’ page on the morning of June 20th were all informed that the people who had fired forty-five military grade projectiles at Israeli civilian communities in the space of some five hours during the previous night are ‘militants’ rather than terrorists.
In typical ‘last-first’ style, the headline to the BBC News website’s report on that story read “Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket and mortar fire” and the euphemism ‘militants’ was seen again.
“Israeli jets have hit militant positions in Gaza after Palestinians fired rockets and mortars into Israeli territory, the Israeli military said.
The military said 25 targets linked to the militant Hamas movement were hit, in response to a barrage of about 45 rockets and mortar shells.”
Quoting “Gaza’s health ministry” without informing readers that it is run by the same…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Jun 21, 2018 @ 11:45:31
Jim,
missiles are directed at targets. Hams rocket go anywhere.
The other problem is the reason for murdering people. They are members of an a organisation.
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