Sheera Frenkel Feeds Twitter Distorted Buzz
Buzzfeed correspondent Sheerah Frenkel sure is able to include a lot of misinformation into a 140 characters!
Earlier today she posted a tweet that read as follows:
Order of events: 3 teens kidnapped->100s of Palestns in WB arrested->revenge attacks on Palestinians->violence along Gaza/Israel border->war
First, the Israeli teens were not just “kidnapped.” They were abducted and then immediately murdered on June 12, 2014.
Then she reports that violence along the Gaza/Israel border came after “revenge attacks” on Palestinians. Another misstatement of fact. This previous Snapshots entry reveals that “the barrage rocket attacks against Israel began well before the Palestinian teenager, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, was killed on July 2.
In fact, the increase in Hamas rocket attacks increased soon after the June 12 launch of Israel’s “Operation Brother’s Keeper” to rescue the kidnapped teens.
She only had 140 characters, but Frankel’s order of events omits Hamas’ rejection of an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire on July 15, 2014.
It also omits a call for calm issued by Israel prior to initiating operation Protective Edge.
In a passage that has been deleted from an entry posted on Washington Post’s blog site on July 8, 2014, William Booth and Ruth Eglash reported that IDF Spokesperson Peter Lerner “told reporters that Israel has offered “calm for calm” but that rocket fire from Gaza escalated in recent days and that now the Israeli military would seek to hit Hamas hard.”
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