This morning at 9am, a ceasefire was supposed to come into effect between Israel and Hamas. At 9am, Israel indeed ceased attacking targets inside Gaza. In that time, Hamas fired some 50 rockets at Israel and announced to the world that it had not accepted the ceasefire.
At 11:27, some half hour after Hamas had broken the ceasefire, I tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/jonorose/status/488963072703623168
Indeed, not a single tweet about the “ceasefire” from the Guardian for the next 4 hours. At roughly 3pm, after six hours of holding fire, the IDF reluctantly returned fire. And then about 20 secs later, this:
It would be comical if it wasn’t so pathetic.
This cartoon sums it up perfectly:
Update:
The Guardian just tweeted the following:
Its far more accurate, and I’m going to call it a win for Brian’s and this post (not to mention all the people that noticed it by themselves and tweeted to their original tweet) for calling them out on this.
