Israel vs. Hamas: Good Guys vs. Bad Guys?

This will be an exceedingly difficult column for me to write because no matter how I phrase it, many readers will think I am trying to find a way to justify the Hamas assault on Israel, if only to provide some kind of counterpoint to the extraordinary pro-Israel bias demonstrated this past week by the Fake News.

But the issue as I see it is not whether Hamas was justified in attacking Israel and targeting as many civilians as possible in its assault. For me, violence is violence no matter who uses it and there has to be a better way. But that’s a given and not worthy of dispute.

The real issue is that we like to think of ourselves as an enlightened and informed population because we support a Constitutional ideal known as ‘freedom of the press,’ and if we are going to cloak the behavior of media within a Constitutional security blanket, the least the media can do is at least attempt to operate with a modicum of objectivity and respect for honest news.

Which has not been the case at all when it comes to how outlets like CNN, MS-NBC and the national networks have reported what has been happening in Israel and Gaza over the past several days.

The very first report I saw had a group of Hamas ‘terrorists’ attacking the ‘Jewish state.’ From that moment until now, every report has always referred to the…