The Los Angeles Times has outflanked CNN by adopting the most fantastical, journalistically-challenged narrative of the unsolved fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists. On that basis, it concluded that Israeli troops deliberately killed Abu Akleh. Moreover, if a ballistics test did one day establish that an Israeli soldier fired the gun, how would that implicate the Israeli government? A bullet could have ricocheted, the soldier might have shot Abu Akleh by mistake or something else could have gone wrong. Indeed, how would the Times even begin to prove that the soldier received government orders to murder Abu Akleh?

Source: Los Angeles Times June 20, 2022 00:24 UTC