You are way off the mark, and in fact read it in exactly the opposite way to which it was intended. The point is that you would expect something like the killing of a child to be reported consistently.

Palestinian child abuse slide show.

“something as straightforward as the killing of a palestinian child”

is just not a phrase which I can read without wincing. With the best will in the world and all understanding of how it isn’t our fault, this is still a tragedy, not something to be talked about in a flippant manner.

The only matter is who shot him. I’d suspect that Elder is correct on this.

The wire services show their biases very nicely with this story.