At Alex Kane’s blog, more on Ambassador Michael Oren’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post.
Oren writes:
Recent events have revealed the dimensions of this divide. On the same day last month that the Arab League authorized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to move from proximity talks to direct negotiations with the Israeli government, Hamas terrorists in Gaza fired a Grad rocket at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
But Hamas, according to an IDF official, did not fire the Grad rocket Oren refers to. According to YNet:
A military official told Ynet he did not believe Hamas had fired the Grad rocket that exploded in Ashkelon Friday morning, though it remains unclear who was responsible.
“Hamas still wants to maintain the status quo in the Strip,” he said. “It continues to grow stronger, but is deterred by the IDF and doesn’t want to face a conflict.”
Lying in major U.S. newspapers is not new to Oren. In the wake of the deadly Israeli raid on the Gaza “Freedom Flotilla,” Oren
in the
New York Times
. Here’s
, the independent journalist who debunked many of the Israeli propaganda tropes after the flotilla on his blog, had to say about that Op-Ed
