This goes beyond bias, into the realm of the surreal. Hamas claims credit for a bomb on a Jerusalem bus that kills twenty civilians. Israel kills a Hamas boss, and Hamas declares the truce is over. Okay, grant that a pack of butchers like Hamas would insist that killing twenty civilians is not a breach of a truce. But the Guardian's supposed news story writes this:

Ariel Sharon could not have been in any doubt that killing Abu Shanab would wreck the ceasefire.

Just to round it out, Martin Woollacott gives us this:

Unless the US faces up to the fact that Ariel Sharon and his defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, have been working to undermine the remarkable accord between Palestinian factions which has recently brought a period of relative peace to the Holy Land, a complete breakdown is entirely possible.
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As surely as the suicide bomber himself, Sharon and Mofaz were responsible for the deaths and injuries in the Jerusalem bus attack this week, and now by their incursions and and yet another assassination they may well have destroyed the Palestinian ceasefire.

I've been feeling the same lately about the atisemitism in the press lately. I can't see much difference between the level of anti semitism that existed with the Nazis and thier supporters and the likes of Hammas and thier supporters. The enthusiasm of the support coming from some quarters in Europe - like the Guardian's 'it's all the victim's fault' piece is just what I mean. It reminds me of the joke about the Quaker who had an very badly behaved horse who finally lost his patience and said 'I am a Quaker so i cannot beat thee and I cannot curse thee but I can sell thee to a Methodist - and he will beat thee.' (Apologies to all Methodists and NO my point is NOT that Jews are like badly behaved horses in any way.) My point is that after what happened in the forties and for a few hundred years before, pogroms are frustatingly out of fashion for most westerners..... but they can always support the Palestinians.