Reason no. 9,999,999 why I won't pay for a subscription to the Toronto Star

Mitch Potter is the one of the Toronto Star’s Mid-East pundits. My interest was peeked when I saw that the Toronto Star was carrying another Binyamin Netanyahu story online that was not posted when I checked early yesterday evening. This paragraph caught my eye.

In other developments yesterday, gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli man and critically injured his 10-year-old son in a car near the West Bank settlement of Ateret. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

That is just flat out wrong. There was an immediate claim of responsibility by Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades and a rationale (however nefarious) given for the shooting. It may turn out that Al Aqsa did not do the shooting but they are claiming it and the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, and YnetOnline were all publishing it yesterday.

In fact, YnetOnline is now carrying the story that two suspects in the shooting have now been arrested. They are reported to be Al Aqsa members. For Mitch Potter and others not in the know, Al-Aqsa Martry’s Brigade is the armed terrorist branch of Fatah. Fatah is the political party that Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas represents.

Could it be that perhaps Mitch Potter has contacts and sources that his Israeli counterparts don’t have?