The IDF apparently knocked off some top Hamas people today.

Good. It’s exactly what they need to keep doing. The best way to stop this nonsense is to make it look like a very unpromising career path.

[Update at 1:57 PM PDT]

Reuters says that the top guy got away again. Of course, it’s hard to know whether or not it’s true. Reuters doesn’t even think that he’s a terrorist–just a “militant.” At least they didn’t call him a “freedom fighter.”

The only place that the word “terror” or any variation on it appears in the article, of course, is with respect to Israel.

“We are determined to wipe out Zionist terrorism. They are targeting civilians. They are targeting children. There are at least 15 children among the wounded here.”

True or false: if there had been only children in that car, how many think that the Israelis would have fired rockets at it? Raise your hands, everyone.

Sorry, they weren’t “targeting children,” no matter how much Reuters wants to leave lies like this unchallenged. They do say that:

Israel denies trying to harm civilians in army operations against the Palestinian uprising. Since the start of the uprising, its forces — aided by informers — have traced and killed dozens of militants alleged to have attacked its citizens.

Palestinians brand such Israeli operations state-sponsored assassination and the tactic has been condemned internationally. Israel says it is acting in self-defense.

No mention of condemnation of the Palestinian war crime of hiding soldiers among a civilian population, of course. That’s never mentioned. I suspect that I’ll be much older, with much less hair, before it ever is, at least at Reuters.