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InstaPundit notes (via a reader comment) that while the media are regularly noting the origin of weaponry used by the Israeli Defense Forces (“U.S.-supplied AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships have pounded the refugee camp with missiles …”), rarely do we see the same notes <\/a>on Palestinian actions (“A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up 10 civilians today with Iranian-supplied plastic explosives purchased with Saudi-supplied dollars”).<\/p>\n

Interesting.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s clearer where the money trail comes on specific US-supplied or -vended military equipment, vs. the various groups that are arming and funding the Palestinians. Still, if there was a desire, the correct verbiage could be developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

InstaPundit notes (via a reader comment) that while the media are regularly noting the origin of weaponry used by the Israeli Defense Forces (“U.S.-supplied AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships have pounded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4089,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/07\/smoking_guns_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":1910,"position":0},"title":"Smoking Guns","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Feb-03 10:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a damning little article from the Asian Times about how Germany has not only supplied much of the materials and machine parts for Iraq's various WMD programs over the...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137660,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/because-the-world-needs-a-perry-mason-prequel.html","url_meta":{"origin":1910,"position":1},"title":"Because the world needs a … Perry Mason Prequel?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jan-19 8:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Unlike most fans of the old Raymond Burr TV show, I've actually read a number of Perry Mason novels. 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