I’m in the US.

I haven’t discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.

I’ve seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven’t determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.

Maybe it doesn’t mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.

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    I had a problem with your opener:

    whoever thinks Israel purposefully targets civilians…

    They have for a while, and currently they are. And it’s well known and historically proven that behavior like that results in backlash eventually. And then nothing good happens.

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      they currently are

      You didn’t read the follow up after my opening that you had problems with.

      Or you are ignoring how Hamas operates.

      The claim that Hamas reacts to anything that Israel does in the West Bank is a myth.