Melanie Phillips: the killing of a child is a "minor grievance"

A Rafah pundit is, in fact probably all Rafah pundits are, angry at Melanie Phillips for describing the killing of a 10 year old child as a "minor grievance."

But there's more to her on line article than the belittling of child killing by the Israeli army. She complains that the UK's Independent. newspaper had falsely reported Palestinian claims. For some strange reason, Melanie forgot to mention the fact that the Independent. article was written by Eric Silver, who is a card carrying Zionist. He is British but he has exercised his right to return to the Israel he doesn't come from. His main claim to fame is that, when he used to write for the Guardian, he said that "if Israel raped Lebanon she was hardly a virgin in the first place." Rumour has it that he was sacked for that. Also when Rachel Corrie was murdered by an Israeli army bulldozer driver Silver tried to cover it up in his Independent. article at the time. He tried to make out that there were conflicting reports that made the facts hard to come by. Too bad that photos of the murder were all over the internet when he wrote his article. The next day, as if to apologise, the Independent. ran the photos. The fact is that Eric Silver was caught with his hand in the till. Since then he has had to present an appearance of honest reporting (pardon the expression) since he wants to write for more than just the Jewish Chronicle. and the Jerusalem Post.

So, why didn't Melanie mention the fact that it was a Zionist who reported that the Israeli army had killed Nouran Deeb? Do you know? I'm starting to think she's deliberately dishonest.