Reuters Provides Hamas a Platform By by Ricki Hollander

"We bless the (Jerusalem) operation. It will not be the last," Hamas said in a statement following the terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav, a Jewish yeshiva in Western Jerusalem, as candy was handed out in celebration in the Gaza Strip.

Just three days earlier, a Reuters headline on an article presenting Hamas terrorists as heroic warriors trumpeted, "Inspired by God, Hamas Fighters Battle On."  Readers might have thought they were reading a PR press release by the terrorist organization meant to embolden its members and frighten the enemy.

The March 3, 2008 article by correspondent Nidal al Mughrabi conjured up images of a biblical David taking on a mighty Goliath, as it portrayed a Hamas gunman as a brave hero battling a mighty enemy. The lead paragraph began:

Abu Mohammed picked up his rifle, said farewell to his wife and six children and went out to face the Israeli tanks, helicopter gunships and missile-firing airborne drones.

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