Jon Snow of Channel 4 News presented a Dispatches documentary last night complaining about how Israel managed the media during Operation Cast Lead. Snow was his usual pompous self and was absolutely incredulous that Israel has legitimate concerns about Western reporters producing distorted coverage of the conflict.

Distored coverage? Hmmm, who is this in this video describing the Qassam rockets that Hamas have been firing at Israel as: “pretty pathetic things – nobody gets injured.”

This photograph is of four-year-old Yuval Abebah, just one of the many Israelis who have been killed by the Qassam rockets that Jon Snow thinks are “pretty pathetic things” that injure nobody. Indeed, Abebah was killed long before Snow made this statement.

PS – When Jon Snow reported on last November’s Mumbai massacre, he described the killers as “practitioners”, rather than what they are – Islamic terrorists. (cf the BBC which refuses to describe suicide bombers who blow up school buses full of kids as ‘terrorists’, preferring to use the term ‘militants’, as if they are 21st century Derek Hattons.) Snow also, astonishingly, reported that the Mumbai terrorists showed a “wanton disregard for race or creed” when the exact opposite was the case. They deliberately and carefully targeted Jews, Americans and Britons.