“Three Year Old Stabbed in the Heart, Baby's Throat Slashed” VS “Israeli family of 5 killed in 'terror attack,' military says”

One article reads “Three Year Old Stabbed in the Heart, Baby's Throat Slashed” while the other says “Israeli family of 5 killed in 'terror attack,' military says”

The first headline comes from an article in Arutz Sheva http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142843 while the other was featured on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/12/west.bank.family.killed/index.html?hpt=T2#

There are many inconsistencies between the two articles, and I find that there is a serious spin in the CNN article.  Just look at the headline: “killed in ‘terror attack’ military says.”  Oh, so it’s according to the military, meaning other people have a different view and this is only one side of the story.  Or maybe the fact that the military says it is in itself a source of unreliability; after all, there are a bunch of killers themselves.  And then we see ‘terror attack’ in quotes.  Seriously? What is it if it’s not a terror attack?  The fence was jumped, intruders came, and footsteps lead to a neighboring Arab village: “military trackers discovered footprints leading to the Arab village of Avrata,” says the Israeli article; this was not a mere killing!  This was a massacre of innocents, a terror attack by cowards who kill children reading in bed, babies in their cribs, and parents sleeping. 

In the CNN article, we talk about “an intruder.”  A little further down, we read that “more than one person may have carried out the crime.”  This is widely different from the “Fatah ‘Freedom Fighters’” described in the Israeli article.  The Israeli article tells us the murders were carried out by terrorists (and please note the plural), while the other article put the terms “terrorist attack” in quotes.  This is absurd. 

Now I ask you, what would have happened if it had been a Palestinian family?  What would the situation be if it had happened in an Arab village?  I’ll tell you: there would have been outrage, protests, cries from governmental agencies around the world, boycotts, bashing of Israel and the IDF, maybe even a kind of new Goldstone Report, who knows.  Where are all the people so keen to show outrage when the Israelis buy land in East Jerusalem to make hotels or residential buildings?  Where are all the individuals that claim to want justice and peace in the Middle East and are so upset about the Israeli security checkpoints?  The title of that CNN article is upsetting, to say the least.  We do not get outrage; we get "quotes."