An Israeli bus crash and the media’s obsession with settlements - by Simon Plosker

...How appalling that the deaths and injuries to Israeli travelers have been needlessly politicized.

Simon Plosker..
Honest Reporting..
29 January '17..

In a horrible and tragic incident, two Israelis were killed and several wounded when the bus they were travelling in plunged 70 meters (230 feet) down a ravine in stormy weather in the northern West Bank in the early hours of Friday morning.

The Daily Mail’s Mail Online didn’t only get the number of deaths and injuries wrong but also included this headline alluding to the location of the crash.

The bus did not land on its roof in an Israeli settlement. It ended up in a ravine.

What is it with the media’s obsession with settlements?

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