Painting a sympathetic portrait of violent demonstrators, The New York Times Magazine 8,000-word cover story asks “Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?” With all the cheerleading in the article, it seems the New York Times hopes so. 
Many news media continue to use the words terrorist and militant interchangeably, despite their different meanings. When they do use them properly, they are more likely to describe American rather than Israeli victims. Recent Washington Post examples demonstrate such journalistic inconsistency and inaccuracy. 
The Christian Science Monitor published a toxic Op-Ed which argues that Israel, unique among nations apparently, has no right to defend its citizens from deadly terrorist attacks. 
Ha'aretz's translators again downplay Palestinian violence, this time transforming the stabbing of Yael Shalom into an "assault," her 20-something-year-old Palestinian assailant into an "Arab teen," and one of his weapons, a crowbar, into a "stick." 
A popular narrative in the media contends that the Palestinian Authority has been exemplary in its cooperation with Israel, while Israel and Jewish settlers are responsible for the stalled peace process. 
CNN repeatedly misidentifies prisoners whose release was demanded by the Munich terrorists as "political" prisoners. Among them is Kozo Okamoto, who took part in the 1972 Lod airport attack, killing 28.