Compare and Contrast

MSNBC is running a story about how a Hamas cameraman was shot and apparently needed to have both legs amputated. Hamas immediately blamed Israel for the incident, and Israel says there is no way to know who shot him and had no plans to investigate the matter. The usual suspects immediately rushed to blame Israel for the incident:

The International Federation of Journalists, in a statement from Brussels, Belgium, denounced Israel for what it said was “a vicious and brutal example of deliberate targeting of a journalist.”

Israeli army spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibowitch said it was not clear who shot Imad Ghanem, 21, a cameraman for the Hamas-allied Al Aqsa TV, though she did not deny it could have been Israeli troops. There were no plans to investigate, she said.

Ghanem’s legs were amputated Thursday after he was brought to the hospital in critical condition, doctors said.

Leibowitch said the cameraman was a legitimate target because he was with the Hamas gunmen firing at Israeli forces, was separated from other journalists covering the clash, and could have been carrying a weapon.

The shooting was captured on film and broadcast on al-Jazeera satellite television, but the footage did not show who fired at Ghanem.

Palestinians have repeatedly attempted to use propaganda to turn world opinion against Israel, but we have repeatedly seen that such attempts are invented or take advantage of incomplete evidence. Of course, by the time facts are available to rebut the Palestinian claims, the media has moved on to the next claimed atrocity and the incidents take on the status of myth - repeated as fact when the reality is far different.

Why is MSNBC offering this up when there is more than ample opportunity to slam the members of the Lal Masjid mosque and Pakistani officials who put cameramen and journalists in harms' way. Where are the statements by the IFJ denouncing where journalists killed and injured at the Lal masjid mosque?