Two Arab prisoners. Which death triggered riots? Which death goes entirely unreported?

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
03 April '13..

Time for a small lesson in reality twisting and shaping.

A convicted Palestinian Arab terrorist, sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to engineer a massacre in a Jerusalem cafe in 2002, died yesterday at the age of 62 of cancer of the throat.

As a direct result, Arab riots broke out today in several parts of Israel's prison system as well as in East Jerusalem. In addition, three rockets were fired into Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Times of Israel says two of the Gazan missiles crashed inside Gaza's borders, but as happens constantly with such "fell short" explosions, there are no reports of casualties among the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza, even though casualties do routinely occur in the wake of "fell shorts". A third exploded in an open area of southern Israel's Eshkol region, according to the IDF.

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Tortuous Coverage of Palestinian Prisons

Honest Reporting/Backspin
06 January '10

Yesterday, AP published an encouraging story that torture in the PA's West Bank prisons has dramatically declined.

Today, Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh contacted Hamas figures in the West Bank who told him the PA continues torturing prisoners.

I'm not losing sleep over Hamas terrorists and supporters being tortured by the PA. But I am inclined to believe Hamas on this one. One particular JPost snippet was the tipping point:

Earlier this week, the PA organized a tour for reporters to one of its prisons in Nablus, where Hamas inmates said that the torture had ended.

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