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An AP story on Israel starts with this sentence

This week's suicide attack in Israel has sparked a war of words between Israel and Syria and increased pressure on the Israeli government to finish the West Bank barrier that many Israelis believe saves lives.

(emphasis mine) Huh? As I mentioned here, it isn't something that Israeli's "believe", it's something that is a fact. Will the writer, Steven Gurkin, now say that "many Israeli's believe suicide bombers are attacking them"? It goes on to describe how Hamas claims "responsibility" for suicide bombings, but does not want to be responsible when it comes time for Israeli warplanes to bomb their leaders in Syria back to the murky abyss from whence they came.