As the media broadcast and discuss images of destruction in the Gaza Strip, it is essential that they recall, and alert the public to, Hamas's use of crowded and built up civilian areas as a base for attacking Israel. 
A Jan. 17, 2009 Op-Ed in the Boston Globe by CAMERA's Andrea Levin examines Hamas' charter and exposes the terror group's goals. Read the whole piece ("The truth about Hamas,") here. 
Jimmy Carter, the David Irving of Middle East revisionism, proffers Hamas talking points and his own unique rants in yet another Washington Post Op-Ed. It seems that for Post editors Carter never needs to check his facts or logic. 
Myths about the fighting in Gaza multiply everyday. For example, Rashid Khalidi in a New York Times op-ed provided multiple examples of Gaza myths in an article purporting to do the opposite. (updated Jan. 19) 
Anti-Israel activists are exhibiting naked hostility toward Jews at rallies throughout North America. Media coverage of this hostility has been scant, leaving citizens to rely on amateur videographers for information about this development. 
From disengagement to tahdia to Katyushas, the history and considerations that prompted Israel's military action against Hamas are discussed in this brief timeline. 
CNN's Rick Sanchez promised "fact checking" of anti-Israel charges, "fairly [and] honestly." In fact CNN's incompetent research just compounded the errors. Viewers hoping for accurate coverage of the Middle East would do well to avoid Sanchez, and his co-anchor Jim Clancy, like the plague. 
As in the Hezbollah War of 2006, in today's Gaza conflict some reporters, such as CNN's Rick Sanchez, shift the story to alleged "disproportionate" Israeli attacks, with a false focus on relative losses by the parties. 
"We bless the (Jerusalem) operation. It will not be the last," Hamas said in a statement following the terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav, a Jewish yeshiva in Western Jerusalem, as candy was handed out in celebration in the Gaza Strip. Just three days earlier, a Reuters headline on an article presenting Hamas terrorists as heroic warriors trumpeted, "Inspired by God, Hamas Fighters Battle On."