+972:: How journalists become complicit in Gaza's suffering

It’s all the more galling, then, when reporters seize upon the list of Gaza’s most recent victims, only to parse their death certificates for proof that they, too, did not deserve to die.
Case in point: On August 5, The New York Times ran an article by Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren titled, “Civilian or Not? New Fight in Tallying the Dead From the Gaza Conflict.
” The money quote, according to Mahmoud Abu Rahmeh of the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, is this: