Daoud Kuttab’s crazy bias against Israel

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Daoud Kuttab’s crazy bias against Israel

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | Media Behaving Badly, Middle East |

Little Green Footballs - Washington Post: ‘Amateur’ Rockets ‘Nagging’ Israel:

The Washington Post gives column space today to Palestinian shill Daoud Kuttab, who turns in one of those very predictable whiny pieces claiming that fighting against terrorists “only makes them stronger:” Daoud Kuttab - Has Israel’s Gaza Attack Revived Hamas?

Includes this absolute howler of an opening sentence:

JERUSALEM — In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine.

Other great Washington Post headlines from history:

DALLAS - Amateur assassin nags JFK’s head with old milsurp bullets
NEW YORK - Amateur pilots nag Twin Towers, much like Maverick playfully buzzed the control tower in “Top Gun”

I’ll have to check my copy of the AP Style Book, but I don’t think nag is an acceptable synonym for “murder.” This year Hamas rocket attacks on Israel killed a number of Israeli civilians, wounded others, and kept the population in terror.

Also, I don’t think Iran would appreciate the WaPo describing their Qassam and Katyusha rockets as “amateur.” Many of the press reports describe them as “Hamas rockets,” but Hamas couldn’t make a light bulb, much less a rocket. The rockets are provided by outside countries like Iran and Syria who are using Hamas in a proxy war with Israel.

4 Comments to Daoud Kuttab’s crazy bias against Israel

daoud kuttab
December 31, 2008

The term amateur is compared to the highly sophisticated ones that israel used on Palestinians. You are right that even amateur missiles can kill, the point was to show that by over reacting the israelis might have helped rather hurt a radical movement that was losing public support. My wish is that all missiles stop and the siege lifted and occupation ends.

daoud kuttab´s last blog post..HAS ISRAEL REVIVED HAMAS?

Les Jones
December 31, 2008

To me, amateur rockets sounds like something with an Estes engine that boys shoot off in their backyards.

Do you think “nag” was really the best choice of words for describing the killing of people?

Alcibiades
December 31, 2008

The correct term would be “crude”, “simple”, or “make-shift”. In any case, they are quite deadly.

Rockets aren’t actually that difficult to make compared to other weapons. Without a guidance system, though, they are rather random and indiscriminate.

Tony M.
January 1, 2009

If a radical group in Mexico started lobbing rockets into the US, we would expect the Mexican government to stop it,and they would. That is essentially the solution to this problem. There needs to be a government in place that won’t allow people to launch missiles at the neighboring country.

Downplaying the deadliness of the rockets used, or being critical of a country retaliating when it is attacked is not the solution. When someone falls off of a cliff, you don’t blame gravity. You put up a guardrail.